{"id":6838,"date":"2011-07-16T12:27:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T19:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6838"},"modified":"2011-07-16T13:31:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T20:31:02","slug":"an-scatterbrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6838","title":{"rendered":"An Scatterbrain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"From Nancy Nall’s blog yesterday, a righteous rant<\/a> about a\/an agreement, prompted by the typo in this sentence:<\/p>\n

“Lawmakers on Thursday evening announced they had reached an budget agreement to end the shutdown.”<\/p>\n

As Nancy puts it: “The hell you say.”<\/p>\n

Few will come right out and say it, but this is a class thing.\u00a0 When you screw up verb\/tense agreement, confuse a and an, or use “your” for “you’re,” you might as well wear a “Kiss Me, I’m Trailer Trash” T-shirt.\u00a0 People are going to judge you.\u00a0 You can bet your bottom dollar I read all my stuff three or four times before clicking “publish” lest you judge me the same way!<\/p>\n

On to more personal things.<\/p>\n

I worried it would hurt to wear my bicycle helmet this morning, what with all the stitches in my scalp<\/a>, but it turned out to be no problem and my friend Darrell and I enjoyed a great ride from Reid Park to 4th Avenue and back.\u00a0 Still, events suggest my head injuries are more severe than first thought.<\/p>\n

Never mind me pedaling right through a red light and almost getting hit by a car.\u00a0 I might have done that anyway.\u00a0 Stupid cars.\u00a0 No, it’s more what happened after the ride.<\/p>\n

When I pulled into Costco for gas on the way home, I realized my debit card was missing.\u00a0 I decided I’d better drive straight home and find it.\u00a0 On the way I remembered using it the previous evening to buy takeout food at a neighborhood sports bar.\u00a0 The sports bar was on my way home, so I pulled into the lot and walked up to the door, only to find the place closed.\u00a0 On my way back to the car I noticed the gas filler door was open … perfect, I’d left the cap on top of the pump.\u00a0 Hey ho, back to Costco!<\/p>\n

On my way the cell phone rang.\u00a0 It was Darrell, calling from the restaurant where we’d agreed to meet for a post-ride breakfast.\u00a0 I’d forgotten all about breakfast and left my friend in the lurch!\u00a0 By then it was too late to join him, and I didn’t have a debit card anyway, so I apologized profusely.\u00a0 Back at Costco I luckily found the gas cap and even discovered a backup credit card that worked at the pump, so at least I was able to fill the car up.\u00a0 On the way home again I tried calling the pub, but it was still closed.<\/p>\n

Back at home I picked through the contents of the kitchen trash can, just in case I’d put the card in the bag last night’s dinner came in, but no luck.\u00a0 At 11AM, as soon as the pub opened, I called again and got through.\u00a0 The safe was locked and the manager was nowhere to be found, but the nice young man on the phone promised to find him and call me back within fifteen minutes.<\/p>\n

Half an hour later, just as I was about to call the credit union to cancel the card and issue me another, the phone rang.\u00a0 They have my card.\u00a0 Of course there’s no way to tell how many rounds of drinks are on it, but I guess I’ll find out soon enough.<\/p>\n

I’m not normally such a scatterbrain.\u00a0 Maybe I should stay off the roads another day or so.\u00a0 Except for a quick trip to the neighborhood pub to retrieve my card.\u00a0 What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Nancy Nall’s blog yesterday, a righteous rant about a\/an agreement, prompted by the typo in this sentence: “Lawmakers on Thursday evening announced they had reached an budget agreement to end the shutdown.” As Nancy puts it: “The hell you say.” Few will come right out and say it, but this is a class thing.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,2,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling","category-personal","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6838"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6846,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838\/revisions\/6846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}