{"id":346,"date":"2008-01-07T23:45:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T22:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2022-03-30T16:42:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T15:42:31","slug":"working-like-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Working like a dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello?<\/p>\n<p>Is that Worcestershire county council?<\/p>\n<p>Good, I want to make a complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;ll wait, if I have to.<\/p>\n<p>Hello?<\/p>\n<p>I want to complain.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about the lorries.<\/p>\n<p>Yes lorries, the big ones, the HGVs.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re blocking the layby.<\/p>\n<p>Well when I say <em>the layby<\/em> I mean they&#8217;re blocking <em>every single<\/em> layby.<\/p>\n<p>I was out in my car last night and in the 12 miles between here and Worcester there were fourteen &#8211; FOURTEEN &#8211; extra-large HGV articulated lorries parked up, all of them blocking the laybys for us normal motorists.<\/p>\n<p>And on the return trip two hours later do you know how many i saw?<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, again. The same fourteen.<\/p>\n<p>What on earth is going on?<\/p>\n<p>Laybys used to be where one could pull over and have a breather for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>But these days one can&#8217;t even get in the laybys &#8211; they&#8217;re full with HGVs while the lorry drivers get their eight or nine hours sleep!<\/p>\n<p>When did this change happen?<\/p>\n<p>Did someone consult us?<\/p>\n<p>How on earth is one supposed to get out for a drive, pull in to a layby and give some random 35-year-old housewife a good fucking up the arse while her husband stands outside the car having a wank, that&#8217;s what I want to know?<\/p>\n<p>We pay our taxes you know.<\/p>\n<p>Hello?<\/p>\n<p>HELLO?<\/p>\n<p>I say Emily, the bastard&#8217;s hung up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello? Is that Worcestershire county council? Good, I want to make a complaint. Yes, I&#8217;ll wait, if I have to. Hello? I want to complain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}