{"id":626,"date":"2009-03-13T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/03\/13\/the-dingers\/"},"modified":"2009-03-13T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T10:04:00","slug":"the-dingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/03\/13\/the-dingers\/","title":{"rendered":"The dingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3KcDDpUUfo\/SboyPOmuI6I\/AAAAAAAAAU0\/0ypUSs3CFgU\/s1600-h\/typical_ding_drivers_rear_door_stratus_b4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 320px;height: 240px\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3KcDDpUUfo\/SboyPOmuI6I\/AAAAAAAAAU0\/0ypUSs3CFgU\/s320\/typical_ding_drivers_rear_door_stratus_b4.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Thought I would get something off my chest. I hate dingers. You know, the people who park up alongside your car, then carelessly open their door into yours, leaving a little ding or dent.<\/p>\n<p>Most people aren&#8217;t dingers. I have never put a ding in a car. I hook my finger round the door so as not to do any damage.<\/p>\n<p>But look at any car more than a year old, and chances it it will have numerous little dings in its panels.<\/p>\n<p>Who are the dingers? And how do we make them stop!<\/p>\n<p>Do they not know they are dinging? Or do they not really care?<\/p>\n<p>Now someone close to me who shall remain nameless is, in fact, a dinger. It drives me nuts. I once parked up alongside a brand new \u00a335,000 Audi. Predicting the inevitable, I said &#8220;Open your door carefully &#8211; that&#8217;s a brand new&#8230;&#8221; Ding! And the owners were still in it. Reply: &#8220;What&#8217;s the big deal? It&#8217;s just a car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is this a petty and shallow obsession of mine? Should I just get a life? Or is this a TOTAL FRIGGING MENACE?! If so, what do we do about it? Yes, I shall be purchasing a rubber door thingy for our car &#8211; but what about others?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought I would get something off my chest. I hate dingers. You know, the people who park up alongside your car, then carelessly open their door into yours, leaving a little ding or dent. Most people aren&#8217;t dingers. I have never put a ding in a car. I hook my finger round the door so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}