{"id":648,"date":"2006-09-24T00:55:12","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T23:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2006-09-24T00:56:28","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T23:56:28","slug":"scum-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"Scum of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did I mention I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=174\">hate salesmen<\/a>?<br \/>\nOh, I did.<\/p>\n<p>It see,s like a good idea to change the Audi: It&#8217;s had to have a few thngs fixed of late, picked up an advisory at the MOT, and is bound to need some work in the near future. It&#8217;s been a very reliable, fast, economical  car, but is now showing it&#8217;s age a little.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, it seems like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkers.co.uk\/pricing\/used_car\/valuation.aspx?deriv=13031&#038;model=44&#038;plate=61&#038;pay=false&#038;buyorsell=sell\">over \u00a34000<\/a> wouldn&#8217;t seem unreasonable, so to be offered \u00a33000 part-ex for it results in one thing:<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye. You have just lost our business for taking the fucking piss. Of course , this is all just part of a negotiating game I&#8217;m meant to play with the idiots, but, frankly, I have neither the time or the patience to deal with them. If salesmen and marketers could all be shot into space, the world would be a better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did I mention I hate salesmen? Oh, I did. It see,s like a good idea to change the Audi: It&#8217;s had to have a few thngs fixed of late, picked up an advisory at the MOT, and is bound to need some work in the near future. It&#8217;s been a very reliable, fast, economical car, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=648\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scum of the Earth<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-driving","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}