{"id":425,"date":"2008-03-05T13:44:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T13:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=425"},"modified":"2008-03-05T13:44:46","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T13:44:46","slug":"my-arm-aches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"My arm aches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s not a winge, simply a statement that at this moment in time my right arm aches to buggery and back.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, I&#8217;m glad you asked why.<\/p>\n<p>Her, down there (stands up and points 2-1\/2 islands down the office to short, bespectacled girl\/woman\/female with almost-shoulder-length hair), that&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p>She hit me.<\/p>\n<p>Repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>Five or six times, if I&#8217;m honest.<\/p>\n<p>Because I was looking.<\/p>\n<p>Can we just get one thing straight here, before we go any further?<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t touching.<\/p>\n<p>My tongue wasn&#8217;t hanging out.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t being conspicuous.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t even looking &#8211; really &#8211; more kind of&#8230; scanning.<\/p>\n<p>But she (and by &#8216;she&#8217; I mean her sitting 2-1\/2 islands down the office) watches my eyes when we go up to Costa for our fix of caffeine.<\/p>\n<p>And because she watches my eyes she tracks where they are and where they&#8217;ve been and she guesses where they&#8217;re likely to go next based on her built-up mental database of clicks and pings.<\/p>\n<p>And then she hits me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not doing anything wrong.<\/p>\n<p>We weren&#8217;t engaged in conversation &#8211; therefore I didn&#8217;t break eye contact or anything like that.<\/p>\n<p>We were just standing in the queue waiting to be served and I was just&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Looking.<\/p>\n<p>Around me.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, if my wife with standing beside me I&#8217;d be perving all over her!<\/p>\n<p>But she wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>So I was just looking.<\/p>\n<p>And now I have a sore arm.<\/p>\n<p>Ouch.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s not a winge, simply a statement that at this moment in time my right arm aches to buggery and back. Ah, I&#8217;m glad you<\/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-425","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\/425","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=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}