{"id":256,"date":"2009-04-15T14:14:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T21:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:33:52","slug":"wednesday-april-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wednesday-april-15th\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, April 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n<p>I was at the post office today mailing my tax returns.\u00a0 The line was so long, I mean it seemed like miles long. I was there for about 10 minutes when I started noticing something terrible.\u00a0 Something so awful I almost had the leave: people complaining about the long line. I was so pissed!<\/p>\n<p>What do people think they&#8217;re going to encounter at the post office on tax day?\u00a0 I mean for the love of god do people just have to complain about everything? April 15th happens every year, why are these pricks so shocked?<\/p>\n<p>Signed,<\/p>\n<p>I Get Why People Go Postal<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Go Postal,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I think that people complain so much because they have no idea how annoying they sound.\u00a0 During the winter in Chicago, we see a lot of people complaining that they are really cold- as if EVERYONE isn&#8217;t really cold in this god forsaken city in the god forsaken winter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maybe your brain naturally blocks you from hearing the stupid things you say as a survival tactic.\u00a0 I probably would have killed myself long ago if I had a realistic idea of how I sound on conference calls, for example.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>People are shocked because only assholes go to the post office the day taxes are due, so it makes sense that they act like assholes.\u00a0 See?\u00a0 It&#8217;s very logical.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If we start accommodating idiots all the time there will be no incentive for anyone to change.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty sure that&#8217;s why there were only two people working at the post office on tax day.\u00a0 I enjoyed it because I live for human drama, but I can see how normal people would think it was annoying.\u00a0 Plus, I was there filing my taxes on the last day and complaining loudly that it was crowded, just to feel like I fit in.\u00a0 I recently watched My Super Sweet 16, and I think I&#8217;ll also have a crazy blow out sweet 16 for my birthday this year.\u00a0 Also to fit in.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sincerely,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Poor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, I was at the post office today mailing my tax returns.\u00a0 The line was so long, I mean it seemed like miles long. I was there for about 10 minutes when I started noticing something terrible.\u00a0 Something so awful I almost had the leave: people complaining about the long line. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wednesday-april-15th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday, April 15th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3817,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/3817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}