{"id":34381,"date":"2025-09-25T16:33:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34381"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:51:13","slug":"i-know-the-feeling-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/25\/i-know-the-feeling-8\/","title":{"rendered":"I Know The Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want to spoil it for you, gentle reader, but our holiday trunk this year will be used car salesmen.  So I have been haunting thrift stores trying to find not only loud sports coats and shirts for our family to wear but also a cheap used Little Tikes car for our tableau.<\/p>\n<p>I went to Red Racks, and I had trouble finding the men&#8217;s apparel because it was on the opposite side of the store from the other clothing.  As I wandered, I found the toys section and one of the standard orange Little Tikes cars for $20.  Perfect!  I might be done shopping the first week!  <\/p>\n<p>So in my rotation through the store, I found the men&#8217;s section and sourced an ugly yellow plaid shirt, and I was passing through the records section on the way to the toys.  I half-heartedly flipped through some of them, and as I headed to the toys, some guy was wheeling the car to the cash register.<\/p>\n<p>So I know how this feels.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/thriftstorememes.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I cannot tell you how many of these I have seen at garage sales this year because I was not looking for them.  Now, I can tell you how many I will see: 0.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t help that cross country season runs right up to the Trunk or Treat, and I won&#8217;t have much time to crawl yard sales looking.  But we&#8217;ll think of something else if we don&#8217;t find one or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want to spoil it for you, gentle reader, but our holiday trunk this year will be used car salesmen. So I have been haunting thrift stores trying to find not only loud sports coats and shirts for our family to wear but also a cheap used Little Tikes car for our tableau. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34381","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=34381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34382,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34381\/revisions\/34382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}