{"id":1202,"date":"2010-11-10T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:04:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:04:29","slug":"a-slap-for-a-mid-century-modern-smart-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1202","title":{"rendered":"A Slap for a Mid-Century Modern Smart Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went camping a few weeks ago. We needed some ice so I went looking for some. Couldn&#8217;t find it anywhere so I had to drive a ways.<\/p>\n<p>Except for this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5070402966\/\" title=\"20101010_18 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20101010_18\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/5070402966_902f2a59a9-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Shell Station. Hmmmm. What&#8217;s wrong with a Shell Station? For a guy that used to work for BP I sure seem picky. Well let me tell you about Shell Oil. I used to work for them also. When they sold the assets I was working on, they included a clause in a bidding agreement that prospective purchasers agreed to not hire the employees of the assets unless they bought the assets. Huh!!!  Yep that caused a few problems since everybody in the natural gas gathering and processing business in Oklahoma bid on the assets. Employment lawyer&#8217;s office said, &#8220;you have a great case if you can prove damages.&#8221; Good luck with that. <\/p>\n<p>So as Sweetie can testify I do not buy gasoline from Shell and certainly not ice. It&#8217;s not an option. So I drove another five miles, for a total of about 15 miles round trip to find some ice.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I felt pretty stupid when I drove back to the State Park where we were camping. Note the striking mid century modern Eufaula State Park Office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5069992123\/\" title=\"20101010_94 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20101010_94\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/5069992123_e8a5db4ba3-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice the big old white ice machine out front?<\/p>\n<p>A fish slap for a blind crusty gas guy. One for Shell also!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5070596028\/\" title=\"20101010_93 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20101010_93\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/5070596028_ac60c76c67-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever done anything as dumb as that? You don&#8217;t need to elaborate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went camping a few weeks ago. We needed some ice so I went looking for some. Couldn&#8217;t find it anywhere so I had to drive a ways. Except for this. A Shell Station. Hmmmm. What&#8217;s wrong with a Shell Station? For a guy that used to work for BP I sure seem picky. Well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boring-personal-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}