{"id":1003,"date":"2006-09-17T22:55:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T05:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2006-09-17T23:11:02","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T06:11:02","slug":"race-for-my-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Race for my ass."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I shouldn&#8217;t blame things on the, &#8220;Race for the Cure.&#8221; I&#8217;ve never been a big fan since the early days when they were so divisive and wanted to keep men away, even male survivors of breast cancer. I&#8217;ve been told that they&#8217;re a lot better now and there&#8217;s even a co-ed race so I&#8217;ll quit being so negative.<\/p>\n<p>But still, today my mom was driving when a, &#8220;Race for the Cure,&#8221; participant decided it was, &#8220;Race for the Denny&#8217;s Parking Lot,&#8221; and changed lanes right into the front of her car. Nobody was hurt, but my mom&#8217;s car isn&#8217;t driveable. After exchanging insurance information, the other driver abandoned her car in a busy street and went to eat at Red Robin.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"Ma's busted car.\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/bustedcamry.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ma's busted car.\" id=\"image1002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/bustedcamry.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I also didn&#8217;t appreciate all the, &#8220;Race for the Cure,&#8221; participants who were snotty to us as the tow truck slowly hooked up my mom&#8217;s car. We were moved out of the busy street into a Denny&#8217;s parking lot, and we were blocking in several cars. I&#8217;m not sure where the, &#8220;fancy ladies,&#8221; all came from but it wasn&#8217;t Denny&#8217;s so they were parked illegally. Their time was certainly worth more than ours and wanted us to make the tow truck driver hurry up. Fortunately, I wasn&#8217;t so cranky that I let anyone know what I was really thinking.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I spent most of yesterday helping my next door neighbors move in, but I slept in to compensate. I figured that helping them move in was much more productive than starting some sort of feud and I didn&#8217;t have much else to do. Their old apartment was a moving nightmare. The front entrance was one story up from the street, they were on the second floor, and the apartment had a second story to it. I&#8217;m happy that at least one of my new neighbors isn&#8217;t a doctor. (Next door to us, he&#8217;s a corporate controller, she&#8217;s a doctor. Next door to them is a doctor and retired doctor mom. Next door to them is a epidemiologist\/doctor. And finally next door to her are two emergency room doctors.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I shouldn&#8217;t blame things on the, &#8220;Race for the Cure.&#8221; I&#8217;ve never been a big fan since the early days when they were so divisive and wanted to keep men away, even male survivors of breast cancer. I&#8217;ve been told that they&#8217;re a lot better now and there&#8217;s even a co-ed race so I&#8217;ll quit being so negative. But still, today my mom was driving when a, &#8220;Race for the Cure,&#8221; participant decided it was, &#8220;Race for the Denny&#8217;s Parking Lot,&#8221; and changed lanes right into the front of her car. Nobody was hurt, but my mom&#8217;s car isn&#8217;t driveable. After exchanging insurance information, the other driver abandoned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1003\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Race for my ass.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}