{"id":198575,"date":"2007-10-29T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/29\/ok-im-awake-now-and-i-need-a-change-of-underwear\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T16:02:00","slug":"ok-im-awake-now-and-i-need-a-change-of-underwear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/29\/ok-im-awake-now-and-i-need-a-change-of-underwear\/","title":{"rendered":"Ok!!!!  I&#8217;m Awake Now (And I Need a Change of Underwear)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to fill up, and there is a 7-11 on the way to work, so I filled up there.<\/p>\n<p>I filled up the car, but I decided that I needed hydration and caffeine, so I got myself a Coke<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Slurpee<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>.  It looked a trifle over frozen, so I stood as far back as I could while operating the machine.<\/p>\n<p>I got everything working fairly well, when <span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">BLAMM!!!!<\/span><\/span>, some sort of pressure surge hit, and ruptured the lid.<\/p>\n<p>It sounded like an atom bomb had gone off, and everyone looked over.  I was standing there with a stunned expression<sup>*<\/sup> on my face.<\/p>\n<p>The lid was shredded, but remarkably enough, I had no Slurpee<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> on me&#8230;not a drop.<\/p>\n<p>One of the clerks came to help me dispense, I think that they were grateful that there was no actual gun play tied with the noise, and she joked, &#8220;Need to go to the bathroom now?&#8221;  I replied, &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">too late for that<\/span>,&#8221; which got a chuckle out of her.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup>My brother calls it the &#8220;looking like a cow that has just stepped on its own udder&#8221; expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to fill up, and there is a 7-11 on the way to work, so I filled up there. I filled up the car, but I decided that I needed hydration and caffeine, so I got myself a Coke\u00ae Slurpee\u00ae. It looked a trifle over frozen, so I stood as far back as I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1012,1100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-food","category-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}