I am the kind of person who notices EVERYTHING.I can’t help it. It’s just something I have always done. I read billboards (and I mean every time we go past the same ones). I even read all of the campaign posters before the election. How do you pronounce Przepis anyway? I also read business signs. Yes, over and over. Precision Paints. Is that someone’s name, Precision, or do they not know how to spell precision? And why is Morris County Auto Body in Pasco County? There’s a bar called Mac Daddy’s Irish Pub. I hate to tell them, but Mac is Scottish. Irish is Mc. Therefore, it should be McDaddy’s Irish Pub or Mac Daddy’s Scottish Pub. There is a place called Y B Normal. I have NO idea what they do in there. There is one called Sew Be It, obviously a sewing shop. There is a beauty salon called Hair Um. That’s cute. There was a church with a sign saying “We have the best Sundays in town”. Another said “Free Religion: Assembly Required.”

I also read bumper stickers and license plates. You know, what they call vanity plates, where you can have what you want on it – for a price. One plate said 6FTBLND. She must have been really proud of being tall and blond. I saw one of those cracker box looking SUVs that had a tag saying “OUR BOX”. I saw a bumper sticker that said “I’d rather be driving a golf ball”. Right away I pictured him driving a giant golf ball on wheels. As a side note, the new Volkswagen bug looks like a dome tent on wheels.

When I watch a movie, while everyone else is watching the opening scenes, I’m reading the credits. You know: the producer, assoc. producer, production manager, director of photography, costume designer and so on. I can’t help it. If it’s there and readable, I read it.

Here’s another one: Why do they put pockets in men’s pajama pants? Do they really take their keys and pocket change to bed with them?

Speaking of wearing apparel, why do very heavy and very thin people wear their clothes so tightly? Don’t they realize they’re emphasizing their problem?

I have also noticed that people are getting very careless (or uncaring) about their driving. I don’t know about yours, but my car has a dimmer switch. It’s there so that if you have your bright lights on and someone is coming toward you, you can dim your lights so they don’t glare in their eyes. Don’t they realize they have their brights on? I can flash my brights at them until I’m blue in the face and it doesn’t faze them. They say lights on for safety. Okay, but if he’s behind me with his high beams on, they’re glaring in my rear view mirror. Also, I thought you were supposed to stay one car length behind for each ten miles per hour you’re driving. I can’t believe his vehicle is only a foot long, but he’s only about five feet from my bumper, so maybe he thought so. A couple of years ago, I was driving on U.S. 41. It was only two lanes in that area. Ahead of me, a pickup truck was on the rear bumper of the car ahead of him. We were on a long straight of way and the car kept slowing down, but he never went around. There was nothing coming for at least a half mile. The car slowed down to thirty-five, but he didn’t pass. Maybe he was just being friendly and wanted to rub bumpers.