{"id":1093,"date":"2008-12-14T20:15:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T01:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2008-12-14T20:15:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T01:15:47","slug":"will-the-real-kevin-moon-please-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2008\/12\/14\/will-the-real-kevin-moon-please-stand-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the real Kevin Moon please stand up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/stills\/movies\/matrix-reloaded--agent-smith.jpg\" alt=\"no, I'M SPARTACUS\" class=alignright \/>So today, I had to go to Wal-Mart and have one of my wife&#8217;s tires patched.  I gave them my phone number, found out it was probably going to take close to two hours, and then set out to Braum&#8217;s on foot for lunch (about half an hour away).  I had just left the farm before this, so I wasn&#8217;t exactly dressed nice&#8230;which is probably for the best since part of that walk practically takes you through a ditch.  Anyway, I took my time eating lunch and then waddled back down the road and across Highway 64, which is about 6 lanes at that point with absolutely no crosswalk whatsoever.  Helpful.  Anyway, I got back to Wal-Mart, picked up some baby stuff, and took my loot to the automotive section where I hoped I wouldn&#8217;t be waiting too long.  I fired up my minidisc player and listened to the end of a Doctor Who audio that I had started earlier that day (<em>Masters Of War<\/em>, about which I shall wax rhapsodic at a later date).  Having finished that, I sat and waited.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the barely-helpful lady from behind the counter looked straight at me and said &#8220;Kevin Moon?&#8221;  It just didn&#8217;t register with me that she was addressing me, because (A) that&#8217;s not my name, and (2) I was really tired by that point.  I had to come out of my haze a bit to really comprehend that she was calling me by one of my friends&#8217; names.  Then I kinda perked up.  What?  Kevin&#8217;s here?  I asked the lady if she had said Kevin Moon, and she said &#8220;That&#8217;s you, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Flash back to about two or three years ago, when Kevin made one of his road trips through the area; he had a flat tire and I&#8217;d had to lead him to Wal-Mart so he could get his tire patched.  As he didn&#8217;t have his cell phone with him on that occasion, I gave them my number, and his name.  That&#8217;s how they had me in the system: Kevin Moon.  Never mind this whole Earl Green business that I&#8217;d told them about when I checked in and gave them the keys.<\/p>\n<p>Having gotten all that sorted out, I was able to get on with my day.  Really, it&#8217;s too bad Kevin wasn&#8217;t there &#8211; he could&#8217;ve saved me that whole hike-through-the-ditch thing.  I&#8217;m sure, given how I looked from working outside and walking through a little bit of mud (the ditch wasn&#8217;t really that bad), everyone at Braum&#8217;s assumed I was living under a bridge and finally saved up enough for a down payment on a bacon cheeseburger!  \ud83d\ude06 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today, I had to go to Wal-Mart and have one of my wife&#8217;s tires patched. I gave them my phone number, found out it was probably going to take close to two hours, and then set out to Braum&#8217;s on foot for lunch (about half an hour away). I had just left the farm before this, so I wasn&#8217;t exactly dressed nice&#8230;which is probably for the best since part of that walk practically takes you through a ditch. Anyway, I took my time eating lunch and then waddled back down the road and across Highway 64, which is about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hizzouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}