{"id":580,"date":"2005-11-04T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=580"},"modified":"2005-11-04T08:33:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T13:33:00","slug":"when-i-dont-bite-my-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"When I Don&#8217;t Bite My Tongue&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, you remember Wednesday? A Day of Great Wound-Uppedness? A Day of Biting Off the Heads of Bats?<\/p>\n<p>I had to call a company to get some rate information to advertise with them. I knew, per Kristin, these people didn&#8217;t have email. Because they work out of a cave with a card table and a phone line, I guess. So I&#8217;m chattin&#8217; it up &#038; telling him what I want to do (oh, hang on, he made me SPEAK SLOWER, never a good sign.) And at the end, I chirp, &#8220;Do you want my email address, do you want to just email that to me?&#8221;<br \/>Him: &#8220;We don&#8217;t have email. We&#8217;re not in the 21st century yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And me, I get this flash of a zinger, and because I&#8217;m having a helluva day, I SAY IT. This rarely happens, because I try to keep all my Polite Filters in place, but something had jostled loose. <\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Oh! So. Are you calculating my rates with an abacus, too?&#8221;<br \/>(I hear Kristin start laaaaaaughing and saying something like &#8216;JENNIFER! YOU DIDNOT JUSTSAYTHAT!&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the gem, because immediately, I felt contrite, even though yes, it was funny, but before I could even apologize for being a bitch, HERE&#8217;S HOW HE WON MY HEART:<br \/>He said, &#8220;Yeah! Can&#8217;t you hear the beads sliding in the background?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then we had a big laugh &#038; I thanked him for being a good sport &#038; said he was really funny, and I&#8217;d wait for the carrier pigeons to bring me the information (ok, I didn&#8217;t, I had already pushed my luck once.)<\/p>\n<p>OH, and how I was talking on Wednesday about how to set my hair on fire? How fitting is this?<\/p>\n<table width=350 align=center border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#DDDDDD\" align=center><font face=\"Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif\" style='color:black; font-size: 14pt;'><b>Your Hair Should Be Orange<\/b><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\"><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.blogthings.com\/whatsyourfunkyinnerhaircolorquiz\/orange.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\"><\/center><font color=\"#000000\"><br \/>Expressive, deep, and one of a kind.<br \/>You pull off &#8220;weird&#8221; well &#8211; hardly anyone notices.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogthings.com\/whatsyourfunkyinnerhaircolorquiz\/\">What&#8217;s Your Funky Inner Hair Color?<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, you remember Wednesday? A Day of Great Wound-Uppedness? A Day of Biting Off the Heads of Bats? I had to call a company to get some rate information to advertise with them. I knew, per Kristin, these people didn&#8217;t have email. Because they work out of a cave with a card table and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}