Ten Fun, Random Things You Probably Should, Might or Ought to Know

1. That Motel 6 used to cost $6 (doh, the name, the name) per night? And does anyone not smile when Tom Bodett says “we’ll keep the light on for ya.”

2. That for teenagers who lived in the Square States in the Sixties their I-Pods were always tuned to radio station KOMA, out of Oklahoma City. At night, at least.

3. That humility used to be considered a positive character trait.

4. That even numbered highways run east and west, odd numbered ones go north and south, and three-digit roads go around and through cities. Don’t laugh, I didn’t pick this up myself until I was cough, 30, cough.

5. That picking things up, putting them away in clean, organized drawers makes you feel better somehow.

6. That if you don’t cut in line at Starbucks or flip off Grandma as she struggles with change at the KMart, you probably shouldn’t do it in your car, either. Courtesy applies still, even if being in the car is somewhat anonymous. Try the simple hand gesture over the steering wheel of “You First.” Unless you live in LA, you’re on your own out there.

7. Service people and TSA workers do not make the rules.

8. That the older you get, the more interested you are in family, local, national and international history. Such knowledge gained late enriches you but makes you wish you had discovered it sooner.

9. That small and faint typefonts on business cards and menus, while cool and with-it, loses business.

10. Catalogues used to be three inches thick and didn’t clog up your mail every single day.

11. (bonus)  That Paul Newman’s best movie was Cool Hand Luke.  Mr, Newman died yesterday.

Any more?