{"id":51,"date":"2010-01-07T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=50"},"modified":"2014-06-11T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T09:22:02","slug":"being-upfront-pays-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Being upfront pays off&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">So you guys and girls all know the score&#8230;.Xmas\/Thanksgiving comes along, family and friends all do that &#8220;Hey, what do you want for a present?&#8221; thing, you Ummm and ahhh, suck air through your teeth&#8230;say &#8220;Hmmmm, I dunno&#8221; and weeks later unwrap something mundane like aftershave, nasty socks, wine you wouldn&#39;t pour on a skunk, a hideous sweatshirt&#8230;.you get the idea <\/span><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/retromtb.goatsurfer.com\/_images\/emoticons\/em.icon.evil.gif?w=620\"><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">So this year I decided to be more assertive, I needed a bunch more bike and DIY tools so I assembled a wishlist of tools, added the exact Part Numbers, prices and web site addresses and stepped away, telling people to &#8220;Please be precise, or fallback on the skunk wine\/socks route&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Et Voila&#8230;.it worked <\/span><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/retromtb.goatsurfer.com\/_images\/emoticons\/em.icon.bigsmile.gif?w=620\"><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;\">Santa Claus brought me:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainreactioncycles.com\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainreactioncycles.com\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainreactioncycles.com\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainreactioncycles.com\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainreactioncycles.com\"><br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.screwfix.com\/sfd\/i\/cat\/97\/p2944997_x.jpg?w=620\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">I&#39;m one happy goat&#8230;.everybody wins<\/span> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/retromtb.goatsurfer.com\/_images\/emoticons\/em.icon.wink.gif?w=620\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you guys and girls all know the score&#8230;.Xmas\/Thanksgiving comes along, family and friends all do that &#8220;Hey, what do you want for a present?&#8221; 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