{"id":63,"date":"2004-06-22T11:28:15","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T15:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/22\/i-dont-understand"},"modified":"2021-04-01T21:25:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:25:12","slug":"i-dont-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2004\/06\/22\/i-dont-understand","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t understand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t understand&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8211; people who return library books late<br \/>\nThere was a guy yesterday at the library who returned 3 magazines 34 days late and the fine was about 20 euros. He started complaining about that and said that if he didn&#8217;t return the mags at all, that would cost him less. He was pretty loud. I felt like telling him &#8220;next time, why don&#8217;t you try returning them *on time*&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; people who use dog&#8217;s ears (the papery kind&#8230;) as bookmarks<br \/>\n&#8211; people who underline and write notes on library books<br \/>\nI understand some of the marks may have been done by the previous owner who kindly donated the book, but not all<br \/>\n&#8211; people who don&#8217;t cross the road (bigger than a small one <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> ) via the zebra crossing<br \/>\nPeople run recklessly in front of cars, why do they think they have the right to be first? I know&#8230; cars have to give way to pedestrians, but why don&#8217;t pedestrians give way to cars? It&#8217;s far easier to stop on foot.<br \/>\n&#8211; people who don&#8217;t return things they&#8217;ve borrowed, in general <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_evil.gif\" alt=\":evil:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><br \/>\n&#8211; did I already mention all kinds of cruelty towards library books?  <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_biggrin.gif\" alt=\":D\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t understand&#8230; &#8211; people who return library books late There was a guy yesterday at the library who returned 3 magazines 34 days late and the fine was about 20 euros. He started complaining about that and said that if he didn&#8217;t return the mags at all, that would cost him less. He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-dont-understand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}