User blog comment:Mgdodl/"The Gamblers" Discussion/@comment-3045936-20200131042502/@comment-74.132.82.188-20200131214128

Sam and Dean have had normal problems before. Baby has had to have repairs. Sam had to wear a cast. Dean had a broken leg. They stink when they don't bathe. They need to do laundry. They engaged in credit card fraud and hustling pool  because they worried about money. They slept in Baby, abandoned hotels, and parking lots because they were homeless. They have had family members die. They have suffered the loss of close friends. They have been in car accidents. They have argued. They've dealt with estrangement. They've worried, agonized, and felt hopeless and helpless. They've suffered from betrayal. Dean struggled with alcohol. Things don't always go their way. They fight with romantic interests, break up, and leave them. They have to go grocery shopping. These are all normal problems.

They have not been immune from normal irritants. There isn't enough time in an episode to show them dealing with daily irritants and that isn't the premise of the show. To say they haven't faced and dealt with "normal"  takes away their humanity and is a disservice to their characters. They are not superheroes supported by a deity. That day was a bad day in which they had to deal with many things at once that they don't normally deal with. We've all had extremely bad days.That's normal, too. By whatever means, curse or luck, they were being challenged, taught a lesson. But that day wasn't normal. And they've dealt with normal.