{"id":1087,"date":"2008-09-11T07:09:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T12:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2008-09-11T07:09:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T12:09:55","slug":"creeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"Creeps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My political preferences are explained in part by the fact that I can&#8217;t relate to people who flaunt their big, fat egos.  In fact, I find them repulsive and creepy.<br \/>\nLast evening, I was minding my own business playing billiards at the timeshare resort to which we belong.  The billiards table is located in a large recreation room which also holds the resort&#8217;s indoor pool.<br \/>\nWhile I was playing, a couple of older ladies came in to swim.  They were noisy, but I figured that was their prerogative, so I minded my own business and didn&#8217;t interfere with their fitness ritual.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nOne of them, though, kept staring at me, perhaps because she thought I was intruding on her space, even though the area is open to members.<br \/>\nI had another errand to run so finished up my session.  As I was walking out, the harridan smirked at me and blurted out the stupid comment, &#8220;Did you <i>win<\/i>?&#8221;<br \/>\nSpeaking frankly, I don&#8217;t appreciate strangers playing dominance games with me, especially when I&#8217;ve made it a point not to bother them.<br \/>\nLater on, when I was leaving an open house at a local business, another woman, of similar age to the harridan at the pool, stared, smirked and grimaced at me, also looking for acknowledgment of &#8211; something.<br \/>\nI have no idea what was going on last evening, the phase of the moon must have brought out the wackos.<br \/>\nPeter is really good at dealing with rudeness like this, and I&#8217;m going to ask him what he would have done; I hope it&#8217;s rich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My political preferences are explained in part by the fact that I can&#8217;t relate to people who flaunt their big, fat egos. In fact, I find them repulsive and creepy. Last evening, I was minding my own business playing billiards &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1087\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}