{"id":272,"date":"2010-10-08T18:25:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T18:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennings-bates.co.uk\/?p=272"},"modified":"2010-10-08T18:25:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T18:25:04","slug":"grumpy-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennings-bates.co.uk\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Grumpy old man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just got home from Tesco. While there I stood and watched a man and his young teenage son open a pot of Brylcreem, both do their hair using the mirror by the sunglasses, and walk away. They didnt even put the lid back on the pot!! No one said a word (there were 3 Tesco staff nearby). When did that become acceptable?<\/p>\n<p>Two isles later I ended up behind a man who was shouting. It turned out that he was wearing a bluetooth earpiece and the person on the other end was telling him what to put in his trolley as he shouted to them what he could see on the shelves.<\/p>\n<p>When did normal behaviour get replaced by this sort of thing? I must have been asleep when it happened.<\/p>\n<p>Can we have reality back please? I quite liked it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going for a bath. I\u2019m taking my book. I may be some time.<\/p>\n<p>Rant rant grumble mumbe rant.<\/p>\n<p>P.s. there was a woman in slippers too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just got home from Tesco. While there I stood and watched a man and his young teenage son open a pot of Brylcreem, both do their hair using the mirror by the sunglasses, and walk away. They didnt even put the lid back on the pot!! No one said a word (there were 3 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennings-bates.co.uk\/?p=272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grumpy old man<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennings-bates.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennings-bates.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennings-bates.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennings-bates.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennings-bates.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jennings-bates.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/jennings-bates.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennings-bates.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennings-bates.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennings-bates.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennings-bates.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}