{"id":171,"date":"2003-11-10T09:41:45","date_gmt":"2003-11-10T09:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2006-08-27T20:24:43","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T20:24:43","slug":"monday-mornings-as-if-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/10\/monday-mornings-as-if-they\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday mornings. As if they"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday mornings. As if they aren&#8217;t bad enough&#8230; Guess whose beautiful new CRV got crunched this morning while its driver was sitting STOPPED at a stop sign in Arnprior? Yeah.  Some little old lady driving a huge old steel-framed Oldsmobile was making a right hand turn towards where I was stopped, and she misjudged the enormous length of her vehicle or something, but the upshot is she crunched right into my driver&#8217;s door. Then she spent 15 minutes trying to explain to me that it wouldn&#8217;t need to be fixed, because it didn&#8217;t look too bad, and see this dent on her door from 1982? Never caused her a moment&#8217;s trouble.  Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>The cop thinks it is damage under $1000. Those are the worst, because you don&#8217;t want your insurance to go up by making a claim, but it is clearly someone else&#8217;s fault, so why should I have to go pay hundreds to get it fixed, leaving insurance companies out of it entirely? Shouldn&#8217;t her insurance have to cover the damage? No-fault insurance makes no fricking sense to me.  And to top it all off, he says to me after she leaves, &#8220;She was born in 1915. That&#8217;s a lot of driving experience.&#8221; Hmmm. So somehow I&#8217;m too inexperienced to sit innocently at a fricking stop sign? She may be a nice little old lady, but she&#8217;s a menace, and it&#8217;s God-awful lucky that she hit my truck and not some kid walking to school.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, I&#8217;m done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday mornings. As if they aren&#8217;t bad enough&#8230; Guess whose beautiful new CRV got crunched this morning while its driver was sitting STOPPED at a stop sign in Arnprior? Yeah. Some little old lady driving a huge old steel-framed Oldsmobile &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/10\/monday-mornings-as-if-they\/\">Continue reading <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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-2L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}