{"id":1079,"date":"2015-01-05T06:28:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2015-05-06T06:29:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T14:29:46","slug":"about-half-an-hour-later-ive-got-adrenaline-shakes-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/05\/about-half-an-hour-later-ive-got-adrenaline-shakes-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"About Half An Hour Later, I\u2019ve Got Adrenaline Shakes, Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Postaday for January 5th:<\/strong> Daring Do<\/a><\/p>\n

Tell us about the time you rescued someone else (person or animal) from a dangerous situation. What happened? How did you prevail?<\/em><\/p>\n

My wife loves the Dollar Store. I don\u2019t know why. Yes I know why: she\u2019s a cheapskate. Hey, don\u2019t yell at me! She\u2019s the first person to call herself a cheapskate. \u201cI like a bargain,\u201d she says, \u201ceven if it means I\u2019m buying crap.\u201d<\/p>\n

So there we are the Dollar Store. My wife\u2019s\u2026 somewhere. I\u2019m in the checkout line, behind an old lady, who\u2019s behind a less old lady. I guess the old lady wanted to put her stuff on the belt, and the less old lady Just. Wasn\u2019t. Having. It. Something about how she was making two separate purchases and deciding which things in her piles she did want and didn\u2019t want and her kids kept asking her for things and also she was on the phone because somebody had cancer or something.<\/p>\n

She finally raises her voice and now everyone\u2019s staring but the old lady sort of backs off. A few days go by, the less old lady pays and leaves. The old lady pays, and leaves. I pay, and look for my wife, who\u2019s trying to decided if we should get another bargain or two. You know, in case our garbage can\u2019s not full enough. Got to get maximum value out of the garbage bag\u2019s potential volume, right?<\/p>\n

We go outside. We go to our car. But our car is blocked because somebody\u2019s not moving. So I go to the guy and ask him (an old man) to back up a bit so we can leave. He doesn\u2019t seem too happy but he does it. Then I get in my car, and only then do I assess the situation.<\/p>\n

The old man\u2019s not moving because he wants someone in another parking spot to give him her information. And I realize\u2014 it\u2019s the old lady. So I get out, and ask the old guy what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

He tells me it\u2019s none of my business. I tell him he can\u2019t block this old lady in. If she wants to leave, he has to let her leave. He tells me she almost hit his car as he drove past. He points at a dent. He says he doesn\u2019t remember if he had that dent before. He says he wants her information in case he remembers he didn\u2019t have the dent and therefore she must have done it.<\/p>\n

I tell him I don\u2019t care, he can\u2019t just trap her there. He yells at me, \u201cWhat are you going to do about it?\u201d<\/p>\n

I puff up my chest. I smile. I tell him I\u2019m going take a picture of her license plate, his plate, the dent, and give him my phone number so he can call me if he needs to. He says fine. I do the things I said I was going to do and he drives away.<\/p>\n

The old lady gets out of her car. She\u2019s crying. I say to her, you\u2019re having a pretty rough day, huh? She laughs. I give her my phone number. I tell her \u201ccall me if your insurance company gets a claim from this guy. I\u2019ll be a witness. You didn\u2019t hit him.\u201d<\/p>\n

She says thanks.<\/p>\n

I get in the car and we leave. I tell my wife the whole thing. \u201cNice job!\u201d she says. She hands me a Snickers Bar. \u201cCan you believe we got four of these for a dollar? Now that\u2019s a bargain!\u201d So I eat two.<\/p>\n

About half an hour later, I\u2019ve got adrenaline shakes, bad. Or sugar shakes from the Snickers. Not sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Postaday for January 5th: Daring Do Tell us about the time you rescued someone else (person or animal) from a dangerous situation. What happened? How did you prevail? My wife loves the Dollar Store. I don\u2019t know why. Yes I know why: she\u2019s a cheapskate. Hey, don\u2019t yell at me! She\u2019s the first person to … <\/p>\n

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