{"id":648,"date":"2009-09-23T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/beams\/"},"modified":"2009-09-23T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T13:54:00","slug":"beams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/beams\/","title":{"rendered":"beams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People that drive at night are jerks.   I know that&#8217;s a sweeping statement &#8211; so maybe it&#8217;s just people that drive near me at night that are jerks.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1. Xenon headlights.  Thank you.  I&#8217;m legally blind now.   Why do you need headlights like that?  Did you lose a contact lens while on the highway last time and now you&#8217;re looking for it at 75 miles an hour &#8211; hoping that the magical headlights will make it twinkle on the pavement so you can slam on the brakes and pick it up?  Jerks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2. Trucks.    Great, you&#8217;ve got a big-ass truck that could drive over a school bus.  How awesome for you.   Are you aware that the ground clearance also elevates your headlights?  And that when you drive behind my normal, human sized, car &#8211; you flood the interior with enough light to make the dessert at noon look like the bottom of the freaking ocean?   Thanks.  I&#8217;m blind again.   It would be even more awesome if you could please tailgate me for the next 50 miles.   Jerks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3.  High breams.   Take this quick quiz:  &#8220;Am I using my high beams when:&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>a). There&#8217;s a car directly in front of me?<\/div>\n<div>b). There&#8217;s a car coming towards me?<\/div>\n<div>c).  There&#8217;s a car anywhere near me?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you answered yes to any of those questions, congratulations!  You&#8217;re a jerk.  And I&#8217;m blind.  Again.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I had this a lot on the drive back on Sunday.  And as the winter months approach, my morning commute is darker and darker.  <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In other news&#8230; my default mood the past couple days has switched to &#8220;irritable&#8221;.  It&#8217;s usually &#8220;slightly annoyed&#8221;, so, a bit of a downgrade on that.  Not sure what&#8217;s going on and I&#8217;m hoping I get over it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Back to work&#8230; later&#8230;  <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-5657632035827312195?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People that drive at night are jerks. I know that&#8217;s a sweeping statement &#8211; so maybe it&#8217;s just people that drive near me at night that are jerks. 1. Xenon headlights. Thank you. I&#8217;m legally blind now. Why do you need headlights like that? Did you lose a contact lens while on the highway last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}