{"id":34,"date":"2006-11-22T08:14:52","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T12:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crankopotamus.com\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2006-11-22T10:20:04","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T14:20:04","slug":"you-are-not-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/you-are-not-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"You are not alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Every time you hear a cell phone ring, an angel gets annoyed<\/h4>\n<p>I ride the train to and from work every day. It&#8217;s an hour there and an hour back, but I love it. It&#8217;s the only time I can truly relax. Even if something were to happen at work or at day care, there would be nothing I could do about it, because hey! I&#8217;m on the train! And I&#8217;ll take care of whatever it is as soon as I get there.<\/p>\n<p>But until then, I can read, I can play Sudoku, and I can take a nap, and I can enjoy the temporary respite from being Dad.<\/p>\n<p>The only drawback of riding the train is that other people ride the train, too. The usual suspects include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teenagers screaming &#8220;Look at me, everyone!&#8221; (and I mean that literally. Man, adolescence sucks. I can&#8217;t blame them; they&#8217;re overdosing on carbonated hormones.)<\/li>\n<li>Otherwise sane-looking ladies clipping their nails.<\/li>\n<li>Jackasses bellowing into their cell phones.<\/li>\n<li>People who have just purchased new cell phones, and need to listen to each of their 255 ringtones to see which one best expresses their utter contempt for humanity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This one guy had his bags all over the seat, as if to say, &#8220;Hey, I&#8217;m a sociopath, please don&#8217;t sit next to me.&#8221; But I need my nap, and there weren&#8217;t any other empty seats, so I sat down anyway. He shot me a dirty look, and when that failed to move me, the dude <em>took off his shoes.<\/em> Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for him, I have the perma-cold that goes with being the parent of a preschooler. Can&#8217;t smell a thing, but thanks for letting me know that you are crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time you hear a cell phone ring, an angel gets annoyed I ride the train to and from work every day. It&#8217;s an hour there and an hour back, but I love it. It&#8217;s the only time I can truly relax. Even if something were to happen at work or at day care, there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/you-are-not-alone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You are not alone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whiskey-tango-foxtrot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}