{"id":1666,"date":"2009-08-17T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:12:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:12:28","slug":"everyday-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1666","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, you want to know how to scare me?<\/p>\n<p>Pull a gun on me. Nope, I&#8217;ve read enough detective novels over the years that I know how to handle that pretty easily.<\/p>\n<p>Global warming? Nope, looking forward to the end of cold winters.<\/p>\n<p>Obama taking Sarah&#8217;s babies away? Nope, the Democrats are going to get killed in the mid term elections. Besides, I suspect that she has more weapons than the Alaskan National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Six Flags, &#8211; Well you are getting close.<\/p>\n<p>You want a sure way to scare me half to death and induce an anxiety attack. Pull into a drive through and ask me to do the ordering for everybody.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mcdonalds.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370198759394804322\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mcdonalds-300x225.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>Or worse, make me order at Sonic.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sonic_drive_in_sign.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370201644851832146\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sonic_drive_in_sign-300x225.jpg\" \/><\/a> There are two problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One, I can only remember one thing at a time<\/strong>. So if some people want cheeseburgers, others hot dogs, and others chicken nuggets. I&#8217;m lost. Further if this person wants it plain, the other no ketchup, and on and on. There is no way. Forget the drinks!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second, the person on the speaker cannot understand me, and I cannot understand them<\/strong>. Try as as I might, I try to talk louder, slower, whatever they cannot make me out. Then when they recite the order back, I have no idea what they are saying. I can hear them find. I just cannot make out words of what they are saying. <strong>AAAAAAH. Help<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">One of these days I want to pull this stunt.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5sw2OvIgoO8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5sw2OvIgoO8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, you want to know how to scare me? Pull a gun on me. Nope, I&#8217;ve read enough detective novels over the years that I know how to handle that pretty easily. Global warming? Nope, looking forward to the end of cold winters. Obama taking Sarah&#8217;s babies away? Nope, the Democrats are going to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7976,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666"}],"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=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}