{"id":3391,"date":"2017-07-02T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2017-07-02T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T15:25:04","slug":"learning-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2017\/07\/02\/learning-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I was presented an excellent opportunity to teach Zach, who’s seven and Logan, ten, the meaning through example the word pretentious.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was not innocent enough. \u00a0Zach and Logan jumped into the Subaru laser focused on McDonald’s milkshakes and breakfast burritos. \u00a0We took the usual route towards Wendell Blvd. down Hwy. 97. \u00a0As I reached the Wendell Blvd. intersection the light turned red. \u00a0In less than 15 seconds a yellow Xterra was behind me in the left turn lane.<\/p>\n

Almost immediately after pulling behind me the driver of the Xterra pulls into the lane on my right. \u00a0Now an older lady, older than 60 with red hair and her pink Sunday best is beside me in a bright yellow SUV gesturing frantically for me to roll down my window. \u00a0I think to myself “why should I listen to this frantic nutcase” then I wonder of she’s in trouble.<\/p>\n

As I rolled down my window her scorn and ranting began almost immediately. \u00a0“If you don’t pull all the way to the white line then the light”…. Then the light turned green. \u00a0I took a left, leaving grandma princess in the intersection pointed straight at Hebzabah Baptist church, perfectly aimed to pray about it.<\/p>\n

When the boys asked what it was all about I explained they just witnessed someone being pretentious. \u00a0Arrogant beyond self reason really. \u00a0Presumed herself to be so endowed with knowledge that she needed to instruct me on how to go through an intersection I travel through at least 4 times a day.<\/p>\n

I also explained to the boys they should not be pretentious because it might not go well for them. \u00a0Had they not been with me Molly Church Body might have earned a gesture and lesson meant to make her think twice about opening her smart ass mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning I was presented an excellent opportunity to teach Zach, who’s seven and Logan, ten, the meaning through example the word pretentious. It was not innocent enough. \u00a0Zach and Logan jumped into the Subaru laser focused on McDonald’s milkshakes and breakfast burritos. \u00a0We took the usual route towards Wendell Blvd. down Hwy. 97. \u00a0As … Continue reading Lesson Learned<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3393,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}