{"id":13161,"date":"2026-08-09T10:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T22:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/?p=13161"},"modified":"2026-08-09T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T22:45:14","slug":"i-think-my-phone-is-listening-to-meno-27-in-a-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/09\/i-think-my-phone-is-listening-to-meno-27-in-a-series\/","title":{"rendered":"I think my phone is listening to me\u2026No 27 in a series"},"content":{"rendered":"

I somehow managed to take a wrong turning off the motorway yesterday and ended up on a dirt road.<\/p>\n

What can I say? The car\u2019s GPS told me to take the next exit and I panicked. In fact it didn\u2019t add a lot of time to my journey and it was a relatively fun and scenic drive in the new Tesla.
\nWhen I got to my destination, though, I was dismayed to see mud spatters all the way up the side of the car. Ah well, I thought: it\u2019s supposed to be an SUV after all so maybe it\u2019s adding a bit of street cred?<\/p>\n

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Light soiling on the new(ish) car<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nek Minnit, as they say (or maybe they don\u2019t anymore), I was looking through my emails and found this ad:<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, I\u2019m not paranoid (Why? Did you think I was? Who told you that??) but it\u2019s quite the coincidence, no?<\/p>\n

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I somehow managed to take a wrong turning off the motorway yesterday and ended up on a dirt road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Ukf-3qh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2837,"url":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/11\/caption-competition\/","url_meta":{"origin":13161,"position":0},"title":"Caption competition","author":"Interloper11","date":"July 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Answers on the back of a postcard please. 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