{"id":19025,"date":"2014-03-30T22:49:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T22:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=19025"},"modified":"2014-03-30T22:51:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T22:51:52","slug":"going-hard-and-going-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=19025","title":{"rendered":"Going Hard and Going Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19026\" alt=\"Steamy Window\" src=\"http:\/\/alexsuze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/steamy-window.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/steamy-window.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/steamy-window-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Imagine the scene, it\u2019s Friday and I\u2019m driving home from the office in my car, which I will explain at this point is a large Mercedes 4&#215;4. This puts me quite high up and gives me the same view-point enjoyed by most large van drivers, though not quite as high as you\u2019d get from the cab of\u00a0 an HGV truck.<\/p>\n<p>I was on a dual carriageway and being keen to get home was peeved to be stuck behind a queue of slow moving traffic, the drivers apparently half asleep and not quite at the speed limit. So I pulled out to overtake the convoy of \u201czombie drivers\u201d. Unhelpfully a silver Mazda pulled out in front of me doing a speed that was little more than that of the convoy of undead bozos.<\/p>\n<p>My initial annoyance at this manoeuvre soon turned into interest and then amusement as the front seat passenger leant across to the driver and reached out with her hand. Over the next kilometre she proceeded to mess around in his lap before her arm settled into a steady rhythm. His driving became erratic and his speed did not improve, dropping occasionally so I had to ease off the accelerator.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually after about three kilometres the car in front gave a sudden lurch to the left and was rapidly corrected before the passenger\u2019s hands got busy in the driver\u2019s lap. He began to accelerate, perhaps realising the hold-up he\u2019d created and allowed me to overtake the queue before I returned to the nearside lane. He stayed in the overtaking lane \u2013 do these people not read the Highway Code? Anyway his bad driving allowed me to pull alongside at the next roundabout and as I peeked inside the passenger compartment of the Mazda I caught sight of her collecting together a handful of tissues from his lap.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think she\u2019d been helping him blow his nose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the scene, it\u2019s Friday and I\u2019m driving home from the office in my car, which I will explain at this point is a large Mercedes 4&#215;4. This puts me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=19025\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1120,3],"tags":[1154,1540,1596],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19027,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19025\/revisions\/19027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}