{"id":166,"date":"2006-11-03T06:23:07","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T11:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rreynoso.com\/blog\/archives\/166"},"modified":"2006-11-30T09:29:14","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T14:29:14","slug":"lube-me-up-buttercup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/rants\/lube-me-up-buttercup\/","title":{"rendered":"Lube Me Up, Buttercup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A friend once said that the clinical definition of insanity is a person who repeatedly does the same exact thing while fully expecting different results. I don&#8217;t know how accurate that definition is but I do see his major premise: if you keep repeating the mistakes you are at the very least a moron. &#8220;Hello. My name is Rey.&#8221; (Hi Rey.) &#8220;I&#8217;m a moron.&#8221; (Smattering of welcoming applause.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">My Sienna had to be ready for my pending Florida trip. I was pressed for time. I was working on multiple jobs. I was writing up lists. And at the same time of all this insanity that is swirling around my overstuffed head and schedule, I rush into the Toyota dealer service center to get an oil change<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But there were too many cars lined up in front. Apparently there&#8217;s a mass-migration to Florida (or maybe people just like to get their oil changed at the change of season). I remember that Wal-Mart has an Express-Lube center and would simultaneously allow me to do some last minute shopping. I drive over, nod at the short line and I smile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Pause; rewind four years. Me taking my Camry to Jiffy Lube; them examining the car and noting possible failing transmission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend once said that the clinical definition of insanity is a person who repeatedly does the same exact thing while fully expecting different results. I don&#8217;t know how accurate that definition is but I do see his major premise: if you keep repeating the mistakes you are at the very least a moron. &#8220;Hello. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}