{"id":637,"date":"2002-07-26T11:18:11","date_gmt":"2002-07-26T19:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/26\/like-watching-a-car-crash\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T13:01:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T21:01:30","slug":"like-watching-a-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/26\/like-watching-a-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Like watching a car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15985,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.improvisation.ws\\\/mb\\\/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=4475&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20041120073858\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.improvisation.ws:80\\\/mb\\\/showthread.php?s&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 02:31:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 02:31:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Ever driven past a car crash site? You don&#8217;t really <em>want<\/em> to look, but you just can&#8217;t help it? Some sort if innate human curiosity about the bizarre and the horrible kicks in.<\/p>\n<p>Reading a log of stories from a video store clerk about her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improvisation.ws\/mb\/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=4475\" title=\"True porn clerk stories\">customers who rent porn<\/a> is kind of like that. Fascinating, scary, and funny all in one&#8230;and it completely sucked me in. I just lost about an hour of my morning to this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  We have a new vistor to the porn section. He&#8217;s been in twice now. Actually, he&#8217;s been in at least three times, as he is a registered member, but he&#8217;s only stood out twice.<\/p>\n<p>  He comes in, goes down to the straight porn section, and whips out a hand mirror. Then he applies makeup for about an hour.<\/p>\n<p>  Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>  No browsing, no chatting people up, no whacking. In, mirror, makeup and out. And again, he&#8217;s in the straight section.<\/p>\n<p>  No one&#8217;s sure what to do yet.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whatever works, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a new vistor to the porn section. He&#8217;s been in twice now. Actually, he&#8217;s been in at least three times, as he is a registered member, but he&#8217;s only stood out twice. He comes in, goes down to the straight porn section, and whips out a hand mirror. Then he applies makeup for about an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}