{"id":886,"date":"2014-05-15T17:02:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/?p=886"},"modified":"2014-05-15T17:21:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T15:21:50","slug":"ocean-basket-has-it-in-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/archives\/886","title":{"rendered":"Ocean basket case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years ago we went to Ocean Basket<\/a>\u00a0and came away with 50% food poisoning<\/strong> (two ate, one came away\u00a0sick). \u00a0We have not been back. \u00a0However, we did not say anything to anyone at the time. \u00a0Why make a fuss?<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>

This kind of truck and bull bar, because you never know when you need to bump an ex-client.<\/p><\/div>\n

Today, their huge truck with its huge metal bull bar\u00a0tried to bump my car off the road, because I had the temerity to be scared that they would make good on jumping the stop sign where that very car has been bumped by someone driving just like they did. \u00a0The truck did jump the stop sign. \u00a0This was not a mistake: it was aggressive driving, accompanied by laughing in the cabin – ha ha, big commercial ten\u00a0ton plus truck with bull bar intimidates defenceless little passenger vehicle. \u00a0Ha ha, breaking the law is cool. \u00a0Ha ha, little people are like ants, we can crush them.<\/p>\n

So now, I’m telling the world: these people don’t care<\/strong> about you. \u00a0They do not care<\/strong>. \u00a0Your well-being is their\u00a0joke. \u00a0It’s all very funny. \u00a0Well, maybe they care about you, but they certainly don’t care about me. \u00a0They so don’t care that they employ the worst sort of person to\u00a0drive their goods around. \u00a0They are not unaware that their drivers are\u00a0irresponsible: the only reason to fit a bull bar to an expensive vehicle that does not drive in rural areas is because you know<\/strong> that the vehicle is damaging others:\u00a0instead of getting better staff, you\u00a0institutionalise the damage that your\u00a0staff do.<\/p>\n

Now I’m making a fuss. \u00a0If they are capable of this, they are capable of bigger failures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Years ago we went to Ocean Basket\u00a0and came away with 50% food poisoning (two ate, one came away\u00a0sick). \u00a0We have not been back. \u00a0However, we did not say anything to anyone at the time. \u00a0Why make a fuss? Today, their … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[156,50,155,17,190,10],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","tag-driving","tag-morality","tag-ocean-basket","tag-rants","tag-stuff","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}