{"id":313,"date":"2009-08-14T06:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T06:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2009-08-14T06:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T06:13:00","slug":"five-random-annoyances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Five Random Annoyances &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time once more for:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/angeleyesadventures.blogspot.com\/\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_uBFTfSYgJ30\/SaYiGzVyefI\/AAAAAAAAB20\/upQ79ZN6JUc\/s200\/HighFive.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span><b>Five Random Annoyances Whose Elimination Would Make Life Better<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Mosquitoes &#8211; &#8216;nuf said.<\/p>\n<p>People who dither. Nothing is worse that getting a call from someone who has to describe the lint on their pants and the color of their dental floss before they finally get to the point of the call. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, not a random walk in the woods.<\/p>\n<p>Mushy phone calls. Some people seem not to realize that as the charge on their cell phone goes down, the voice quality gets worse and worse. In fact, there are some people who call that I know well and yet the sound quality makes it so I can&#8217;t understand a word they are saying, let alone recognize them.<\/p>\n<p>Email forwarders. You know who I mean &#8211; the ones who insist on sending you all the old stale jokes and urban legends in existance. I find that once they have been reamed a new one by my response after the first time, the brighter ones tend not to do it again. See yesterdays post under chutzpah.<\/p>\n<p>The Dog Days of August. Molly sheds long clumps of white hair at this time of year, depositing new tufts of fur within minutes of vacuuming. So the carpet looks like this:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/SoT9PIjk_LI\/AAAAAAAAAWM\/tN8BX9hryCY\/s1600-h\/mfur.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/SoT9PIjk_LI\/AAAAAAAAAWM\/tN8BX9hryCY\/s320\/mfur.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><i>(Sorry how hard it is to see the white Molly fur on the light carpet.)<\/i><\/div>\n<p>It literally looks like I have a mad three year old barber wanna-be who attacked the dog all through the house.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time once more for: Five Random Annoyances Whose Elimination Would Make Life Better Mosquitoes &#8211; &#8216;nuf said. People who dither. Nothing is worse that getting a call from someone who has to describe the lint on their pants and the color of their dental floss before they finally get to the point of the call. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five Random Annoyances &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[226],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}