{"id":240,"date":"2006-04-29T22:15:14","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T02:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/29\/240\/"},"modified":"2018-10-05T20:50:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T20:50:24","slug":"240","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/29\/240\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mshepherd.com\/images\/whooneedsoil.jpg\" alt=\"Who Needs Oil?\" align=\"right\"\/>If you&#8217;re wondering why stupid people still walk amongst us, it&#8217;s because individuals such as the one holding this sign continue to pollute the gene pool. <\/p>\n<p>Now and then I will get such a person at my store.  In fact, the other day, such a lady presented herself.  When we stock shelves, we often will put a full unopened carton on the bottom, and an open box on the top from which customers can grab individual sales.  In this particular instance, the open box on the top had sold out so our &#8220;rocket scientist&#8221; grabs the entire box from below and attempts to argue the case with our cashier that she should get a BOX of 36 Snicker Bars for 65 cents because that is what the sign said.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if these people are actually so ignorant as to think they are going to get 3 dozen candy bars for under a dollar or are they trying to bully their way to the &#8220;deal of the century&#8221;?  In any event, I&#8217;m thinking we need to keep a &#8220;Stupid-Stick&#8221; behind the counter to beat these people with!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re wondering why stupid people still walk amongst us, it&#8217;s because individuals such as the one holding this sign continue to pollute the gene pool. Now and then I will get such a person at my store. In fact, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/29\/240\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}