{"id":369,"date":"2010-03-01T21:17:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T03:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=369"},"modified":"2010-03-03T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T03:54:08","slug":"buying-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2010\/03\/buying-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"

01 March 2010<\/strong>
\nAt the gas pump today, I was once again confronted with the conundrum of which way to insert my check card. There’s a handy little diagram etched on the panel, but for some reason, my mind always flips it, and I can’t see which way it goes. It’s like one of those optical illusions where you can’t determine which way the stairs are facing.
\nThe screen on the pump asks if I’m a “Rewards Member.” Yeah, I am, though I hate joining those corporate clubs, but hey, I gather points and one day I can trade them in for free gas. The really creepy thing, however, is that once I’ve swiped the card, the screen reads “processing loyalty.” I can’t really express it in words…but something’s just doesn’t feel right about having my loyalty “processed.”<\/p>\n

I made a post a few weeks ago about a new wallet I purchased. It was only over the past weekend that I finally got around to shifting the contents of my wallet from the old one to the new. (I needed to see the new one on a shelf for a while so I could warm up to it.) Overall, I like it better, but at the pump today, I discovered a problem: less compartments for cards means I have to search through more cards. What I mean is, I know which compartment had my check card in it, but I have four cards in there now instead of two, so, you know, more work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

01 March 2010 At the gas pump today, I was once again confronted with the conundrum of which way to insert my check card. There’s a handy little diagram etched on the panel, but for some reason, my mind always flips it, and I can’t see which way it goes. It’s like one of those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}