{"id":30,"date":"2002-09-22T01:39:10","date_gmt":"2002-09-22T07:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2002\/09\/22\/autodrone\/"},"modified":"2002-09-22T01:39:10","modified_gmt":"2002-09-22T07:39:10","slug":"autodrone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2002\/09\/22\/autodrone\/","title":{"rendered":"AutoDrone"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’ve been looking for the new Mobil1<\/A> 0W-40 for baby<\/A> and finally gave up and checked the Mobile1 site and determined that AutoDrone<\/A> should have it if anyone does. So, stubbing out any remaining bit of self respect I may have retained over these many years I dragged into “The Zone” to search out the elusive Mobile1 0W-40 with SuperSyn™ Technology.
I headed to the back, passing the neon shifter handles and gold-plated chain license plate frames and other assorted bling bling<\/A> without looking up. Lo and Behold! There it was, in all its reformulated glory: Mobile1 0W-40 with SuperSyn™ Technology.
The only catch is that they had a bunch of bottles, but no cases. I wanted to buy in bulk, I didn’t want to have to do this again soon. And this is where I made the fateful decision: I would talk to the clerk, I would ask him if they had a few cases in the back.

<Me>: Hello. I wish to purchase several cases of the Mobile1 0W-40 with patented SuperSyn™ Technology. I see that you have the product I seek, but I do not see any full cases.<\/I>
<Drone>: Uh. What kind of car is it?<\/I>
<Me>:(My stock answer) McLaren F1<\/A>.<\/I>
<Drone>: Uh. What year?<\/I>
<Me>:(“What year?”!) ’55.<\/I>
<Drone>: Uh. I think that uses 10W-30.<\/I> <\/BLOCKQUOTE> So I jumped over the counter and began thrashing and beating the clerk with a huge Borla exhaust tip I pulled off the wall display. When I got tired of beating him I walked back to the back, made a basket out of my shirt and loaded it with 17 bottles of 0W-40 Full-Synthetic Texas Tea (with SuperSyn™ Technology), grabbed a bottle of Red Line<\/A> WaterWetter<\/A>, crumpled up a $100.00 bill and threw it at the manager on my way out the door.
When I got back to the car I remembered that I wanted to see if they had those squeegee things<\/A>, but after the big scene I decided to try somewhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’ve been looking for the new Mobil1 0W-40 for baby and finally gave up and checked the Mobile1 site and determined that AutoDrone should have it if anyone does. So, stubbing out any remaining bit of self respect I may have retained over these many years I dragged into “The Zone” to search out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}