{"id":1865,"date":"2005-04-07T21:50:53","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T02:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/a-sign-that-were-all-a-little-nervous\/"},"modified":"2005-04-07T21:50:53","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T02:50:53","slug":"a-sign-that-were-all-a-little-nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/a-sign-that-were-all-a-little-nervous\/","title":{"rendered":"a sign that we’re all a little nervous"},"content":{"rendered":"

that’s a deep and meaningful insight.<\/p>\n

i’ve had a shitty day, really. got quite a curveball this morning. but, nothing compared to Mike Bolesta’s day.<\/p>\n

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Baltimore Sun, Mar 8, 2005 [unlinked because it’s behind a wall] <\/div>\n

On the morning of Feb. 20, he buys a new radio-CD player for his 17-year-old son Christopher’s car. He pays the $114 installation charge with 57 crisp new $2 bills, which, when last observed, were still considered legitimate currency in the United States proper. The $2 bills are Bolesta’s idea of payment, and his little comic protest, too.<\/p>\n

For this, Bolesta, Baltimore County resident, innocent citizen, owner of Capital City Student Tours, finds himself under arrest.<\/p>\n

Finds himself, in front of a store full of customers at the Best Buy on York Road in Lutherville, locked into handcuffs and leg irons.<\/p>\n

Finds himself transported to the Baltimore County lockup in Cockeysville, where he’s handcuffed to a pole for three hours while the U.S. Secret Service is called into the case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

sure, the internet brings the stupid<\/a>, but they have to come from somewhere, and that somewhere, sometimes, is your local big-box retailer.<\/p>\n

a whole store full of people, presumably people that can read<\/a> (then again, maybe not, i don’t know what the application process is like for best buy), and they can’t handle $2 bills?<\/p>\n

it saddens me. really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

that’s a deep and meaningful insight. i’ve had a shitty day, really. got quite a curveball this morning. but, nothing compared to Mike Bolesta’s day. Baltimore Sun, Mar 8, 2005 [unlinked because it’s behind a wall] On the morning of Feb. 20, he buys a new radio-CD player for his 17-year-old son Christopher’s car. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}