{"id":30629,"date":"2023-01-04T18:32:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T00:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30629"},"modified":"2023-01-04T18:32:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T00:32:54","slug":"meanwhile-in-my-old-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/04\/meanwhile-in-my-old-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, In My Old Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man shot, killed at Maryland Heights tire shop after argument with coworker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I used that auto shop when I was in Casinoport both times I lived there–it is on the corner of Dorsett\/McKelvey, which was about half way between the apartment where I lived before I got married and the house we would later buy. It was in the same plaza as the Gold’s Gym where I was a member for a while between stints at the YMCA (which was down McKelvey). I was a customer there until they recommended I replace the exhaust manifold on my Geo Storm, and I had them do it, but it resulted in the car stalling out on me at times when I was first accelerating from a standstill, like when turning onto busy roads.<\/p>\n

Of course, if the shooting had occurred at the ITD shop across Dorsett, I would have been a patron of that establishment, too, briefly, when it replaced the fuel pump in the very same Geo Storm with a fuel pump that I could hear in the cabin. Friends, have you ever heard your car’s fuel pump? Well, I have, and no matter what the shop manager said about how everyone can hear them, I made them replace it with something probably not out of a salvage yard while I watched, standing in the shop with crossed arms, until something moderately better was installed. <\/p>\n

So somehow a headline turned into a musing on car shops I’ve known. I haven’t known the mechanics, per se, but the guys out front. And I’ve seen some turnover in the shops, and I tend to stick with a shop until something egregious happens. Knocks on wood<\/em>. I’ve been with the shop we use now, a nice five mile walk away, for five or six years now. May they continue to not disappoint me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man shot, killed at Maryland Heights tire shop after argument with coworker. I used that auto shop when I was in Casinoport both times I lived there–it is on the corner of Dorsett\/McKelvey, which was about half way between the apartment where I lived before I got married and the house we would later buy. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30630,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30629\/revisions\/30630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}