{"id":638,"date":"2009-06-30T14:59:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T21:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=638"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:33:50","slug":"readers-react-with-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/readers-react-with-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Readers React With Horror – Tuesday June 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pleading\"<\/a> Dear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n

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I’m confused: Are you seriously going to the Taste of Chicago?\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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\nI am a long time reader of your website…but this move goes against everything I thought I knew about you.<\/p>\n

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What do you hope to accomplish by attending this food fiasco?\u00a0 Aren’t you worried about permanent physical and psychological affects?<\/p>\n

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With Concern and Affection,
\nYou Don’t Have To Do This<\/p>\n

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\nDear Y.D.H.T.D.T.,<\/p>\n

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I appreciate your concern. I’d be lying if I told you that this was an easy decision to make, or that I wasn’t scared. But sometimes in life you have to push yourself to new experiences. <\/p>\n

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\nYou can’t live a life sheltered by the things you can tolerate and protected from things that terrifying you like eating chicken wings while standing with no napkins or access to hand washing stations.<\/p>\n

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So you’re right, this does buck against what you know about Poor Lucky Me. But that’s why it’s so important that I set this goal and accomplish it and I aim to accomplish it in a spectacular way, my friend. I’m going to walk around in flip flops and shorts and wipe my hands on my tee-shirt and eat food until I want to puke then try and provoke a fist fight.<\/p>\n

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Although, it’s supposed to rain Wednesday night. I want a typical Taste of Chicago experience, so I may have to put off the excursion one more day. I’ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n

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Pray for me (or do the non-religious equivalent please).<\/p>\n

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Sincerely,
\nPoor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Poor Lucky Me,   I’m confused: Are you seriously going to the Taste of Chicago?\u00a0   I am a long time reader of your website…but this move goes against everything I thought I knew about you.   What do you hope to accomplish by attending this food fiasco?\u00a0 Aren’t you worried about permanent physical … Continue reading “Readers React With Horror – Tuesday June 30”<\/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-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3761,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/3761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}