{"id":770,"date":"2008-11-06T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T15:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=770"},"modified":"2008-11-06T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T15:45:04","slug":"phones-and-people-dont-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Phones and people don&#8217;t go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening&#8217;s little rantette about <a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=768\" title=\"Hi! Yes! I'm on the coach\" target=\"_blank\">LOUD girl with whiny nasal accent on the phone<\/a> on the coach elicited a brilliant response from Masher &#8211; which I&#8217;m going to follow up on.<\/p>\n<p>But this morning one of the passengers trumped even his idea!<\/p>\n<p>We were about an hour out from Oxford when a woman walked past me and had a word in the driver, then wandered back upstairs to her seat.<\/p>\n<p>Three or four minutes later the driver announced in to his microphone, &#8216;Could the woman who has been on the phone for the last 15 minutes please hang up. Everyone around you is fed up with listening to your conversation. Thank you.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Fucking brilliant!<\/p>\n<p>So not only top marks to the passenger for complaining but also top marks to the driver for waiting a few minutes so it wasn&#8217;t really obvious who the complainant was.<\/p>\n<p>Except I know, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I wasn&#8217;t sitting upstairs so missed out on what I feel is the telephonist&#8217;s undoubted outbreak of acute embarrassment.<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening&#8217;s little rantette about LOUD girl with whiny nasal accent on the phone on the coach elicited a brilliant response from Masher &#8211; which<\/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-770","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\/770","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=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}