{"id":347,"date":"2008-01-09T13:12:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T12:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2012-05-03T21:38:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T20:38:56","slug":"snails-on-the-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Snails on the motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the first full week of the year, I&#8217;m back behind the wheel and guess what?\u00a0 Yep, a couple of the brainless numpties are back too. This post is about one in particular.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I entered on to the M5 &#8211; straight in to three lanes of solid traffic. Great.<\/p>\n<p>Lane one is almost entirely composed of HGV&#8217;s travelling at their limited speed of 56 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Lane two is composed of a nine-mile long tail of vehicles all travelling at 58mph. They&#8217;re doing this random speed because holding up the front of the line is another fcuking HGV-driver whose limiter will let him\/her travel 2 (two!) miles per hour quicker than all the other lorries s\/he&#8217;s desperately trying to overtake.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like watching armour-clad snails racing each other (where the word &#8216;race&#8217; equals a difference of speed of two miles every sixty minutes).<\/p>\n<p>There are about twenty vehicles held up in lane two behind the fcuking stupid HGV driver as s\/he sadistically tries to overtake the other lorries before s\/he gets to her\/his junction!<\/p>\n<p>Lane three is full of every other vehicle that is desperately trying to overtake the HGV-driving numpty in lane two.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to 2008.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you have a great time here.<br \/>\n<strong><em>B<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the first full week of the year, I&#8217;m back behind the wheel and guess what?\u00a0 Yep, a couple of the brainless numpties are back<\/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-347","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\/347","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=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}