{"id":46641,"date":"2019-08-17T16:19:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T20:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46641"},"modified":"2020-08-11T16:19:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T20:19:59","slug":"i-shouldnt-have-left-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46641","title":{"rendered":"I shouldn\u2019t have left the house"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ever have one of those days where something feels amiss?\u00a0 Like there\u2019s a sinking feeling in your stomach or in your mind that something is off?\u00a0 I can recall a few here and there in my life, and without much question, they\u2019ve often times things have gone bad in some way shape or form.\u00a0 But the important thing is to identify when days like this are transpiring, and knowing when to be extra careful with the little things, that might seem like auto-pilot in other times, like driving around.<\/span><\/p>\n

I got pulled over for speeding on a road not that far from my house, because I mostly just wasn\u2019t paying any attention.\u00a0 I took for granted the typical behavior in which I drove on this particular road, and didn\u2019t really consider the speed limit, and when I saw the cop standing in the middle of the road with his hand outstretched, I thought \u201coh shit,\u201d and immediately knew what was happening.<\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly, I\u2019m not upset with the police, after all they\u2019re just doing their job, and I happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and I was the unlucky schlub who got caught.\u00a0 I\u2019m more upset with myself, because one, I should have identified how the day was going, because I had been in a funky mood the entire day prior, and two, I frankly didn\u2019t even need to leave the house in the first place.\u00a0 I went out, because I was bored, and I was on my way to go play some Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> because I thought it might cheer me up.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah, I got a ticket for speeding while on my way to go play Pok\u00e9mon Go.\u00a0 It\u2019s embarrassing to admit it, and it\u2019s like the worst possible reason to ever get a ticket.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t late for an important meeting, I wasn\u2019t late to meet up for dinner or anything, nah, I just went out on a whim to try and go catch some Pikachus, and I got punished for my negligent driving while being out when I totally didn\u2019t have to.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is the first speeding ticket I\u2019ve gotten in literally 18 years.\u00a0 I was kind of hoping my track record would warrant a warning, but to no surprise, I\u2019ve got a likely (because for whatever reason, no info will be present for 10 days [2020 note: it was $184]<\/em>) pricey fee to absorb, as well as the inevitable increase in insurance premiums for my own stupidity.<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought about how scared I was to bring up a ticket to my parents when I was a teenager, and don\u2019t have the same fears now, now that I\u2019m a self-sufficient adult, accountable for my own fuck-ups, but ultimately, it\u2019s just silly and embarrassing to have gotten a ticket.\u00a0 Afterward, I still went to the park to play Pok\u00e9mon, but my head and heart just weren\u2019t in it, and it didn\u2019t last long.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Frankly, I should\u2019ve just stayed home, but I\u2019m retarded about wanting to be productive or do things on weekends, that I get stir-crazy when I don\u2019t really have anything to do, that I put myself in a detrimental situation, even though looking back, all signs were pointing at how I definitely should have just stayed home.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever have one of those days where something feels amiss?\u00a0 Like there\u2019s a sinking feeling in your stomach or in your mind that something is off?\u00a0 I can recall a few here and there in my life, and without much question, they\u2019ve often times things have gone bad in some way shape or form.\u00a0 But … Continue reading I shouldn\u2019t have left the house<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,45,52,19],"class_list":["post-46641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cars","tag-fail","tag-owned","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46643,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46641\/revisions\/46643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}