{"id":1285,"date":"2009-07-07T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2009-07-05T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T20:21:03","slug":"things-overheard-on-the-great-geek-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/07\/things-overheard-on-the-great-geek-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Overheard on the Great Geek Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Star Wars\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/starwars_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"127\" \/>If you&#8217;d been a fly on the wall during our 1,400 mile road trip, you might have overheard the following&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8220;<em>I&#8217;m trying to get us outta here and you&#8217;re taking this apart now?!?<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><br \/>\nHeard as Shag was loading the truck while Serv was dismantling a desk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8220;<em>And I thought they smelled bad on the outside.<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><br \/>\nHeard as the moving truck cabin filled with the rancid scent of road kill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8220;<em>Don&#8217;t worry, she&#8217;ll hold together&#8230;You hear me baby? Hold together.<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><br \/>\nHeard after hitting a curb quite hard in the moving truck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8220;<em>This is no cave.<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><br \/>\nHeard as we raced 85 miles an hour down the interstate in a 17 foot U-haul truck, on a narrow lane, as we squeezed between a semi-truck and a concrete barrier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8220;<em>It&#8217;s not my fault!<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><br \/>\nHeard when the electrical system decided to freak out on the moving truck.\u00a0 Heard again when we took an &#8220;accidental&#8221; detour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8220;<em>Let&#8217;s hope we don&#8217;t have a burnout.<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><br \/>\nHeard starting the truck after the electrical problem was fixed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8220;<em>Punch it!<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><br \/>\nHeard as we passed various folks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8220;<em>Boring conversation, anyway.<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><br \/>\nHeard after a cell phone call was dropped due to bad reception.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You&#8217;d think we&#8217;d have said at some point, &#8220;<em>I&#8217;ve got a bad feeling about this.<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0 Oddly enough, it never came up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1285\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/07\/things-overheard-on-the-great-geek-road-trip\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1285\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/07\/things-overheard-on-the-great-geek-road-trip\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/07\/things-overheard-on-the-great-geek-road-trip\/?share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/07\/things-overheard-on-the-great-geek-road-trip\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-1285\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/07\/things-overheard-on-the-great-geek-road-trip\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;d been a fly on the wall during our 1,400 mile road trip, you might have overheard the following&#8230; 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