“Pet peeves” is a new ‘category’ in my blog.<\/p>\n

It will deal with minor things in my life\u00c2\u00a0that bug me, irritate me, annoy me\u00c2\u00a0or piss me off. They’re always petty things, nothing earth shattering\u00c2\u00a0and mentioning them here probably makes me come across as a whiner. It’s just the\u00c2\u00a0little<\/strong> stuff.<\/p>\n

My first one is this:<\/p>\n

If you pump gas, the nozzle usually has a little doohickey that keeps the handle in the ‘pump engaged’ position so that you don’t have to\u00c2\u00a0hold<\/strong> the nozzle all the time you’re pumping.<\/p>\n

This is very handy, since it allows you to do other things while you’re pumping gas, like washing\u00c2\u00a0your windows, lighting a cigarette (hahahaha… just kidding) or looking on the map to see where the heck you are.<\/p>\n

It’s\u00c2\u00a0also\u00c2\u00a0much<\/strong> appreciated by people with arthritis.<\/p>\n

So, it annoyes me to no end, when I’m at a gas station, and someone has, for some completely insane reason, removed<\/strong> these handy little doohickeys! Why on earth<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0would people do that? It’s there for a reason! Removed them to prevent spillage perhaps: utter nonsense, all the nozzles have some very sophisticated mechanism to make it stop pumping when your tank is full. Someone broke off these things\u00c2\u00a0just<\/strong> to annoy me. And it works. I have gotten very childish about it: when I get at a gas station and they removed these doohickeys .. I leave. If I’m driving on fumes (this is often the case, when I enter a gas stattion) I will pump gas for 2 or 3 bucks, and drive to the next gas station.<\/p>\n

I\u00c2\u00a0told<\/strong> you it was the little stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Pet peeves” is a new ‘category’ in my blog. It will deal with minor things in my life\u00c2\u00a0that bug me, irritate me, annoy me\u00c2\u00a0or piss me off. They’re always petty things, nothing earth shattering\u00c2\u00a0and mentioning them here probably makes me come across as a whiner. It’s just the\u00c2\u00a0little stuff. My first one is this: If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pet-peeves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/claessen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}