{"id":1989,"date":"2011-03-10T09:18:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T09:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2011-03-10T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T09:45:06","slug":"i-hate-car-alarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/?p=1989","title":{"rendered":"I hate car alarms&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But I must be maturing somewhat as I get old(er).<\/p>\n<p>Couple of years back, I was woken by an alarm going off over the road from my house &#8211; I did what most other people would do, threw on some clothes and stormed over there and beat the car to within an inch of it&#8217;s life (sorted the alarm out though &#8211; and got some cheers from neighbours \ud83d\ude09 )&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This morning at work, someone from ABB had parked their car opposite my office and gone into work. A few minutes later, the alarm started going off. I wandered over, took down the registration and phoned ABB to inform them of the faulty device (and all the time being nice and polite) &#8211; the woman on the end of the phone said: &#8220;I&#8217;m not being funny but&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; now THIS phrase is guaranteed to wind me up, you can positively bet your life they&#8217;re NOT going to be funny &#8211; &#8220;&#8230;we have over 200 employees onsite here.&#8221;<br \/>\nI stopped her at this point and said &#8220;Yes, but only 1 Vauxhall Corsa, Registration FL04 *** is parked in the road opposite my office rather than your HUGE car park, with it&#8217;s alarm going off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the owner finally came out before one of the forklift drivers physically moved the car to ABB&#8217;s front gate and left it there on it&#8217;s roof.<\/p>\n<p>And now I have contact details for HR and H&amp;S at ABB (courtesy of Lisa) so I can address any parking complaints (they really DO have a huge car park and have no real need to park in the road &#8211; lazy bastards can&#8217;t be bothered to walk 100 yards or so) to the correct people \ud83d\ude42 .<\/p>\n<p>Oh, did I mention Spurs are through to the last 8 of the Champion&#8217;s League? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>All alone in the office&#8230;it&#8217;s gonna be one LONG day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I must be maturing somewhat as I get old(er). Couple of years back, I was woken by an alarm going off over the road from my house &#8211; I did what most other people would do, threw on some clothes and stormed over there and beat the car to within an inch of it&#8217;s life (sorted the alarm out though &#8211; and got some cheers from neighbours \ud83d\ude09 )&#8230; This morning at work, someone from ABB had parked their car opposite my office and gone into work. A few minutes later, the alarm started going off. I wandered over, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}