{"id":274,"date":"2008-09-27T20:02:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T18:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=274"},"modified":"2008-09-27T20:02:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T18:02:24","slug":"knuckleheads-in-convertibles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Knuckleheads In Convertibles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that the bigger the car, the smaller the brain of the thug driving it?<\/p>\n<p>I was with a pupil this afternoon and we were approaching a three-exit mini-roundabout. She slowed down, dropped into 2nd, and I pointed out that she should watch what the other cars were doing. One car indicated left and was clearly going left (down the road we were on) &#8211; technically, he didn&#8217;t need to indicate as his road was the &#8216;straight ahead&#8217; one, but it helped. The second one was a fat, middle-aged thug in a silver Merc convertible (didn&#8217;t get his registration). No indication at all, he slowed down\u00a0behind the car in front of him going ahead &#8211;\u00a0it looked to the world like he was going ahead, too. Except that he put his foot down and\u00a0 nearly hit my pupil as he turned right. He indicated <em>as he put his foot down on the turn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It must have made his day &#8211; and no doubt gave his trouser tackle the bext thrill it&#8217;s had for some years without the use of Viagra &#8211; being able to play with his horn and look outraged. It couldn&#8217;t have been more deliberate or more stupid if he&#8217;d have tried.<\/p>\n<p>I hope he saw me point to my head and mouth a very descriptive term (related to his sexual prowess and DIY abilities)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that the bigger the car, the smaller the brain of the thug driving it? I was with a pupil this afternoon and we were approaching a three-exit mini-roundabout. She slowed down, dropped into 2nd, and I pointed out that she should watch what the other cars were doing. One car indicated left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latestposts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}