{"id":862,"date":"2005-10-20T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T01:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/bits\/?p=862"},"modified":"2005-10-20T01:00:43","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T01:00:43","slug":"i-cannot-make-this-stuff-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"I cannot make this stuff up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m late for class. I missed an earlier class. I won&#8217;t miss this one.  I&#8217;m determined. I&#8217;m ready to go and out the door in 10 minutes time.  I throw my bag in th epassenger seat. I round the back end of the car. I get in. I start up and reverse.<\/p>\n<p>THUD!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a clanky sort of &#8220;thud&#8221;.  Sorta like metal scraping concrete.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m confused.<\/p>\n<p>I get out and this is the shit I see.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JACKED.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/main\/images\/JACKED.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m dumbfounded. Mortified. Pissed RIGHT the fuck off.<\/p>\n<p>How did I miss this before I got in? I&#8217;ve no idea.<\/p>\n<p>I did get my head together and call the necessary people.  The cops. The apartment manager.  It was too late to get the insurance folks  on the line.<\/p>\n<p>The officer and apartment manager laugh at the idiocy of stealing only one fucking tire. All that does is piss me off more.  Even though I <em>can<\/em> see the funny in it.  I mean, who in fuck&#8217;s sake steals <strong>one <\/strong>motherfucking tire off a goddamn Ford Taurus?!<\/p>\n<p>Who in fuck does that? Really? I want to know.<\/p>\n<p>I ring DT and get him to help put on the spare.  He&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mensch\">mensch<\/a> that guy.  We get the car on the jack and find a rock the size of my head wrapped in a greasy hand towel under the rear suspension.  DT puts the poor man&#8217;s jack in my trunk.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t make it to class.<\/p>\n<p>As for the thieves I do have few things to say.<\/p>\n<p>If I <strong>ever <\/strong>catch you cunts rolling around town in your busted up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=hoop-d\">hoop-d<\/a> sporting a 2002 Taurus tire, I&#8217;m gonna follow you back to your mobile shithouse and run each and every one of you fucks down like mangy bitches. When I&#8217;m done I&#8217;ll take that concrete jack out of my trunk and bash the ever livin&#8217; fuck out of your skulls and chests.<\/p>\n<p>Then I&#8217;ll murder the shit outta you.<\/p>\n<p>I feel better now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m late for class. I missed an earlier class. I won&#8217;t miss this one. I&#8217;m determined. I&#8217;m ready to go and out the door in 10 minutes time. I throw my bag in th epassenger seat. I round the back end of the car. I get in. I start up and reverse. THUD! It&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-too-many-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}