{"id":4744,"date":"2025-07-25T08:23:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=4744"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:23:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:23:51","slug":"dont-get-me-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=4744","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t get me started!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The writing prompt was the saying &#8220;Don&#8217;t get me started!&#8221; We had 7 minutes to write.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Don\u2019t Get Me Started<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is way too much greed and power-grabbing in this country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t get me started.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Never let the yahoo, behind you in their fancy car, push you out of the way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t get me started.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why can\u2019t gasoline have a regular dollar\/cent price per gallon? Who carries around 9\/10 of a penny?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t get me started.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why must we pay for 3,000 channels on cable when I only watch 5 of them?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t get me started.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know the intersection would be blocked because of a backup on the block ahead of me. Don\u2019t honk at me for not moving on a green light.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t get me started.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How many buttons do you have to push on this phone before I can talk to a real live person who speaks English?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t get me started.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I hear the doorbell. One knock or ring is sufficient.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t get me started.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are too many things in this world that we have to complain about.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t get me started.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A little more kindness and patience would be appreciated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There, now I\u2019m finished.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The writing prompt was the saying &#8220;Don&#8217;t get me started!&#8221; We had 7 minutes to write. Don\u2019t Get Me Started There is way too much greed and power-grabbing in this country.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me started.\u00a0 Never let the yahoo, behind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=4744\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,7],"tags":[177],"class_list":["post-4744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-stories","category-personal-stories","category-story-writing","tag-writing-prompt"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4746,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions\/4746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}