{"id":196,"date":"2008-10-09T19:18:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T02:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikeandcarly.net\/?p=196"},"modified":"2008-10-10T09:05:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T16:05:58","slug":"i-must-be-scary-and-intimidating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikeandcarly.net\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"I must be scary and intimidating"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, one week ago from today, some stupid boys stole one of my wheels off my jogging stroller.\u00c2\u00a0 I was so annoyed not only because it’s mine and I use it almost daily, but also because they can’t use a jogging stroller wheel for their bikes—they’re most likely going to just chuck it anyway.\u00c2\u00a0 My neighbor saw who took it and talked to them, but they keep lying saying that it was their friends’ tire.\u00c2\u00a0 So that night we knocked on neighbors’ doors to see if they knew of two boys about 10 or 12 who had taken the wheel.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the funny things is that at one of the doors we knocked at, was my neighbor’s kid’s scooter, and the boy that lived there lied and said that his mom bought it a while ago.\u00c2\u00a0 My neighbor said, “yeah, that’s actually mine, so I’ll go ahead and take it back, thank-you.”\u00c2\u00a0 For all we knew they were just lying to us.\u00c2\u00a0 It ended up being a bunch of hopeless tries and searching.\u00c2\u00a0 I gave up after a few days. I found out from the manufacturer that it would be $50 to get a replacement.\u00c2\u00a0 The police never returned my calls.\u00c2\u00a0 They probably thought, “a stroller tire? yeah, I’ve got better more important things to do.”<\/p>\n

Today,\u00c2\u00a0 my neighbor saw those same two boys across the street, and ran to my door so we could approach the boys.\u00c2\u00a0 As we were walking toward them, the boys saw us coming and took off on their bikes.\u00c2\u00a0 We found out one if their names from their friends (the boys were saying, “I don’t know who they are,” and a bunch of other nonsense.\u00c2\u00a0 I said, “No, you tell me who they are or we’ll get the cops.\u00c2\u00a0 One boy quickly answered one of their names).\u00c2\u00a0 I explained that it was a jogging stroller wheel, and they couldn’t even use it for their bikes if they wanted to.\u00c2\u00a0 We said we didn’t want to get them in trouble if they brought it back,\u00c2\u00a0 yet sternly added if they didn’t we’d call the cops.<\/p>\n

Apparently we scared them because an hour and a half later my wheel showed up at my front door.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Guess when it comes to game time, I can put on a mean face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, one week ago from today, some stupid boys stole one of my wheels off my jogging stroller.\u00c2\u00a0 I was so annoyed not only because it’s mine and I use it almost daily, but also because they can’t use a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeandcarly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeandcarly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeandcarly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeandcarly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeandcarly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeandcarly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeandcarly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeandcarly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeandcarly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}