{"id":730,"date":"2008-10-09T06:42:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T05:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2008-10-09T06:45:04","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T05:45:04","slug":"not-a-morning-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"Not a morning person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m guessing a certain amount of stuff here but one thing is for certain. She is not a morning person. Or maybe she is and this is her best feature. In which case&#8230; Be afraid, be very afraid.<\/p>\n<p>The coach this morning is full.<\/p>\n<p>The seats at the two tables on the lower deck were full-ish; two people seated at each table.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8211; and I soooo hate this &#8211; the woman who was sitting in the window seat at one table had occupied the seat next to her. With her luggage &#8211; a rucksack sort of thing. Or maybe it was a very large handbag.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of attractive in a mid-30s and knows it way but a definite steely &#8216;don&#8217;t fuck with me&#8217; air about her.<\/p>\n<p>You know the sort of person.<\/p>\n<p>Had a completely successful sense of humour bypass at birth.<\/p>\n<p>So I asked her to move her stuff so I could sit down.<\/p>\n<p>Know what she did?<\/p>\n<p>She pointed to a vacant seat at the other table, and said I could sit there instead.<\/p>\n<p>Ha.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I could have told her to eat shit and die but the truth is I laughed and did as she asked.<\/p>\n<p>And the coach filled up behind as more people got on.<\/p>\n<p>Until the person five behind me in the queue asked the Divine Ms Grump to move her stuff so that she could sit down.<\/p>\n<p>This time the coach was full and she had no option.<\/p>\n<p>So.<\/p>\n<p>Every now and then I catch her eye &#8211; The Divine Ms Grump.<\/p>\n<p>And I smile at her; actually it&#8217;s pretty much a slightly restrained full-on laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Know what?<\/p>\n<p>She doesn&#8217;t return the smile.<\/p>\n<p>In fact she still looks as though (as Soph would say) she has a face like a slapped arse.<\/p>\n<p>I really hope she isn&#8217;t a morning person and that this really is not the best side of her personality!<br \/>\n<em><strong>B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m guessing a certain amount of stuff here but one thing is for certain. She is not a morning person. Or maybe she is and<\/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-730","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\/730","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=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}