{"id":1732,"date":"2004-09-28T22:05:05","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T02:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2004-09-30T07:42:19","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T11:42:19","slug":"co-transiteers-annoyance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/28\/co-transiteers-annoyance\/","title":{"rendered":"co-transiteers annoyance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new annoying fellow travellers on the GO train yesterday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Clipper<\/strong>: she took about 10 minutes to get her nails just right&nbsp;&hellip; <em>clip, clip, tick, clip<\/em>&nbsp;&hellip; am I the only one who finds that kinda gross? I felt like making <em>kapweeng! kapweeng!<\/em> ricochet noises to go with it<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Thumper<\/strong>: Take a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stompintom.com\/\">Stompin&#8217; Tom Connors<\/a> record. Remove the vocals and instrumental accompaniment. Slow it down 200 times. That&#8217;s what this youth was doing with his right foot: <em>thump&nbsp;&hellip; thump&nbsp;&hellip; &nbsp;&hellip; thump&nbsp;&hellip; &nbsp;&hellip; &nbsp;&hellip; thump&nbsp;&hellip; thump<\/em>. He kept checking around to see if he was getting a rise out of anyone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Being the consummate commuter of course, I abided by the first law of transit annoyances: <em>Sit there and do nothing, for cowardice is a virtue.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new annoying fellow travellers on the GO train yesterday: The Clipper: she took about 10 minutes to get her nails just right&nbsp;&hellip; clip, clip, tick, clip&nbsp;&hellip; am I the only one who finds that kinda gross? I felt like making kapweeng! kapweeng! ricochet noises to go with it The Thumper: Take a Stompin&#8217; Tom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[40,1655],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-annoyance","tag-transit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-rW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}