{"id":3387,"date":"2013-06-11T10:53:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T17:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:36:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:36:06","slug":"sitting-at-the-car-dealer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2013\/06\/11\/sitting-at-the-car-dealer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting at the Car Dealer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"DSC_0442.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/DSC_0442.jpg\" alt=\"DSC 0442\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today has already been an eventful day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a nice drive down the hill with the top down. Traffic was as always a bitch mainly because of dumb ass driving. But until I got to the North end of San Bernardino I was having some serious fun.<\/p>\n<p>Then of course there was an accident and the inevitable bullshit of everyone trying to fuck everyone else over just to get one stinking car length ahead.<\/p>\n<p>I let them, I&#8217;m over the whole fuck everyone attitude. I used to actively try to prevent the assholes from getting their way, It was a matter of principle. But there are so many who play &#8220;<em>Gotta get one car ahead<\/em>&#8221; that It&#8217;s just not worth it anymore. I mean really, if it&#8217;s that important for you to sit right behind a gravel truck who&#8217;s dropping rocks and gravel on the front of your car\u2026 More power to you!<\/p>\n<p>I noticed last year that that kind of behavior wasn&#8217;t all that common outside California. I don&#8217;t know if it was an aberration of the year or if that&#8217;s the norm. I&#8217;m hoping to take another trip in the near future to test the theory.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sitting at the dealership while they replace some parts due to a recall. The recall isn&#8217;t going to cost me but the car seems to have known we were going to the dealership and decided to ask for more service. Fine\u2026 Now that it&#8217;s paid off I don&#8217;t mind spending a little money now and again on it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just too damn much fun to drive!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had Alarm follies today too.<\/p>\n<p>The other half somehow managed to trigger a panic alarm. This results in an automatic police response. I wasn&#8217;t home at the time and when the alarm company called I couldn&#8217;t answer the phone. I tried, but the connection dropped the moment I answered.<\/p>\n<p>I spent some time on the phone with the alarms company&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Genuine People Personality<\/em> Computer&#8221; God I hate those things! I just needed a person riki tic. Of course the system had to try to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">help<\/span> me even after it understood that I needed a human being.<\/p>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t know if the police showed up at the house or not. I tried to cancel them but I don&#8217;t know if I was successful or not.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another time when I&#8217;ll have to ask the partner what happened. I swear I&#8217;ll get a call about the least little thing, but the major stuff? No word at all, It&#8217;s silent as a tomb.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Once I&#8217;m out of the Dealership I&#8217;ll read the news. Their WiFI is busted, and for that matter so are their hardlines in their &#8220;Customer Business Center&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I could start hacking\u2026 Just don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s worth my time.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows, maybe being out of the news cycle for a few more days will be a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I&#8217;d hate to miss the latest scandal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today has already been an eventful day. I&#8217;ve had a nice drive down the hill with the top down. Traffic was as always a bitch mainly because of dumb ass driving. But until I got to the North end of San Bernardino I was having some serious fun. Then of course there was an accident &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2013\/06\/11\/sitting-at-the-car-dealer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sitting at the Car Dealer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5360,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions\/5360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}