{"id":440,"date":"2012-05-27T08:43:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T15:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=440"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:32:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:32:59","slug":"something-that-tickled-my-funny-bone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/05\/27\/something-that-tickled-my-funny-bone\/","title":{"rendered":"Something that tickled my funny bone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was out and about I stopped by Bass Pro to pick some items up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">I was planning to do my second Run &amp; Shoot competition today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Unfortunately, during the night I&rsquo;ve come down with something.&nbsp; When I got up this morning I didn&rsquo;t feel great but I was still ok.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMAG0204.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0204\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">By the time I was showered and ready to go I felt completely lousy!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">So I stayed home and am nursing whatever ailment I&rsquo;ve picked up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">At first I thought that something I ate had just disagreed with me. But I&rsquo;m thinking now it&rsquo;s something more like a cold \/ flu \/ stomach bug \/ whatever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">I&rsquo;m achey and feverish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">There is a part of me that wonders if I&rsquo;d gone out to Palm Springs if the heat wouldn&rsquo;t have made me feel better. I&rsquo;m tired of being cold!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Just as I was getting into wearing shorts &amp; enjoying the warmth of Spring&#8230;. We&rsquo;ve had a cold front move through and it 40 outside&#8230; Again!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">I swear, we didn&rsquo;t have a Winter&#8230; and Now it looks like we&rsquo;re not going to have a Spring either! I&rsquo;ve actually been wondering if I should shut the sprinklers down again because the temps have been dropping so low.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Of course if I just got out there and installed the rain\/freeze sensor on the sprinkler control unit I wouldn&rsquo;t have to worry about it quite so much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">The photo above is the result of my putting these items on the counter at Bass Pro yesterday. It just seemed such a contrast. The candy corn is for the godson and the ammo was going to be used today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">The grouping was just so redneck I couldn&rsquo;t help but laugh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">I don&rsquo;t think the little girl at the counter saw the joke, she probably thought I&rsquo;m a bit strange.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">As I was coming home I was thinking about a series of photos that would be priceless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Ammo, diapers, milk, moonpie, RC Cola and a 6-pack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Condoms, Ammo, and a home pregnancy test.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">You see the pattern&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">I&#8217;m thinking I&rsquo;ll pull out the camera, tripod, and a nice backdrop then start taking photos that document the redneck experience in the early 21st century<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px 'Lucida Grande'\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Might be interesting&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was out and about I stopped by Bass Pro to pick some items up. I was planning to do my second Run &amp; Shoot competition today. Unfortunately, during the night I&rsquo;ve come down with something.&nbsp; When I got up this morning I didn&rsquo;t feel great but I was still ok. By the time &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/05\/27\/something-that-tickled-my-funny-bone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Something that tickled my funny bone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","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=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}