{"id":523,"date":"2003-03-06T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2003-03-06T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/03\/06\/3-6-03\/"},"modified":"2006-09-20T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T17:26:08","slug":"i-am-now-officially-tired-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/06\/i-am-now-officially-tired-of-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"I am now officially tired of winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am now officially tired of winter.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the bad weather, I was late to my job application test. MAYBE I&#8217;ll be able to get another retest date. Then again, maybe not. I gave myself 1 1\/2 hours to get to my destination, even though it&#8217;s only a 45 minute trip. But of course, it took me 2 hours to get there.<\/p>\n<p>I get home at 11:30&#8230; more than 4 hours after I left in the morning, with nothing to show except a nervous stomach from being late and 4 hours of dangerous driving. Actually, before I got home, I almost got in an accident. I had stopped at a gas station near my home and filled up. Then I pulled up this 200 yard uphill road to get back on the main road. My car (for the first time in my experience) couldn&#8217;t make it up the hill! I slipped and slid. I tried going at 5 MPH and that worked for about 100 feet. But then there I sat, another 100 feet to the main road. Rather than try to make 1 MPH on this slushpile, I decided to back down the hill with my blinkers on. Everything was going fine. A Fedex van passed by me going down the hill. Then some cars came up behind me trying to make it up the hill. First in line was a big SUV. He slowed down and then stopped for me, seeing that I was pointing the tail of my car toward the gas station&#8217;s entrance. Another car pulled around the SUV into the oncoming lane. Upon seeing me, he stopped as well. &#8220;Thanks!&#8221;, I thought. Now that both lanes were safely blocked, I I started making my cut toward the gas station in earnest. Just then, a tiny sedan zipped past both the SUV and the other car in the oncoming lane&#8217;s shoulder! He was doing about 35, apparently intent on using his momentum to go through me and up the hill. He very nearly rammed my backside! As he sped by me, I noticed a flash of red, white and blue on his license plate; I&#8217;m pretty sure it was a Washington DC plate. This being further evidence that people from non-snowy places have no concept as how to drive safely in snowy conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Remember I told you that I had two -other- tests today? Well school was cancelled as well. GRRRHHEHRFFRIGGINGRIG!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am now officially tired of winter. Due to the bad weather, I was late to my job application test. MAYBE I&#8217;ll be able to get another retest date. Then again, maybe not. I gave myself 1 1\/2 hours to get to my destination, even though it&#8217;s only a 45 minute trip. But of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}