{"id":5094,"date":"2014-03-04T05:04:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T12:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2014-03-04T05:12:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T12:12:22","slug":"oh-what-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=5094","title":{"rendered":"Oh what a day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">We did the banking yesterday. No problem.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have an 11:00 meet with Dennis to diagnose the pole light problem. No problem in theory.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am doing some prep work for when Dennis gets here. Problem arises suddenly.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">John, a.k.a. Buddha, calls out telling me that someone drove away with the hose from pump #2. Heading south I was told.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I set all the tools that I was gathering for the electrical work down and run to my Jeep.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I hit the interstate and floor it. The top speed of this Jeep is 100 m.p.h. Try as I may, I can go no faster.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m heading south at 100 m.p.h. and it dawns on me, I have no idea what type of vehicle is dragging my gas hose down the highway.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Called Buddha and was told it was an old Winnebago. Damned campers!<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still cruising at\u00a0100 m.p.h. and passing everything on the road like they&#8217;re parked.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ten miles down the road and still no Winnebago.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally caught up \u00a0with the Winnebago and flagged &#8220;him&#8221; down on the interstate.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Out steps a 6&#8217;2&#8243;, sixty year old transexual. &#8220;She&#8221; started crying on the side of the road when &#8220;she&#8221; realized what was done.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I took all the cash he\/she had on him\/her and gave him\/her my card to contact me in the next 3 days about paying the rest of this off as soon as possible.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I took a picture of the D.L. and R.V. for reference in case I have to file a report and press charges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Go ahead and tell me that this type of shit happens to you! I dare you! I swear that I must be living on some sort of alternate plane that exists just a shade off of the normal plane that the rest of you inhabit.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I got the hose replaced. I keep one or two on hand because hoses being ripped off is not uncommon.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I also keep the breakaway connectors on hand for the same reason.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dennis has diagnosed the problem and I ordered the parts I need for the light repair.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">They&#8217;ll be here in 2 days. Thank you Amazon Prime.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thank you Dennis too. You&#8217;re always there to help and I really appreciate your friendship.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sitting in the store with Dennis after all of this shit happens, a state cop walks in to the store looking all serious and stuff. He&#8217;s looking for me.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">OK, I was driving\u00a0100 m.p.h. for some 14 miles or so and someone may have complained to the cops via cell phone. I&#8217;m sure I can talk my way out of this.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">He wasn&#8217;t here about my driving. He was looking for me. He was working a check fraud case.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whew.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">We weren&#8217;t the victims this time, our newish check cashing policies saved the day in this case, but the bar across the interstate wasn&#8217;t so lucky.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alex got hit for about $800 by this team that worked the area.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sometimes being a bastard pays off in spades.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was able to identify the female of the check kiters, but they had no picture of the guy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/unnamed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5095\" alt=\"unnamed\" src=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/unnamed.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/unnamed.jpg 720w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/unnamed-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/unnamed-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did the banking yesterday. No problem. I have an 11:00 meet with Dennis to diagnose the pole light problem. No problem in theory. I am doing some prep work for when Dennis gets here. Problem arises suddenly. John, a.k.a. Buddha, calls out telling me that someone drove away with the hose from pump #2. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=5094\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh what a day!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5100,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions\/5100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}