What Is Your Car Not Telling You?

After last week's incident of the car talking too much, this week I found out my own car had been keeping a secret for almost six years. Six years I've had the car and never knew that the back seats not only lay forward, they also flip up, creating lots more space for hauling.

Not that big a deal to most people, but I was dumbfounded that I never knew. I only found out when I was vacuuming. The dumb part is there is a three step picture that shows that on the back of the seats, but I always assumed it had to do with attaching the child seats. Why didn't my car announce that while I was driving down the road. "Hey, by the way, the seats fold up!" Who knew!

And then I found five dollars. No, really, I did. It was on the floor at the mall where I get dinner.

Waiting for the Plane to Roll Through

When I was in line waiting to go through security, there were two lines, which usually isn't the ase. I chose the shorter outside line. As we were waiting in line, three pilots come through and go to the front of our line. Then a group of flight attendants came to the front of the line. A few minutes later, a catering guy with a cart full of food went through. Then a gaggle of wheelchairs and their drivers went through. The other line continued moving and my line had to keep pausing for all these interruptions. The lady in front of me turns around and says, "I'm just waiting for the plane to roll through!"

ABCD or ACDF?

Last week when I was getting on the plane to go home, I had seat 3B. Turns out on this plane the seats were ACDF instead of ABCD. So all the Bs were homeless. You would think we could all just sit down in the row, but it wasn't so easy. We said something to the flight attendant and she said it wasn't her problem, it was the gate agent's problem, and that we had to go back and see the agent. I'm pretty sure it was her problem as the aisle was full of people who had no seat. She was by far the rudest flight attendant I've encountered lately.

The flight was also overbooked, again, not her problem, so we had to wait while they took volunteers to get off the flight. Despite all this nonsense, it might have been the closest we've been to departing on time!

What Does Your Car Say?

Have you ever heard your car talk? Probably not, because you would remember if it did. Today Erin and I were driving back from the hospital chatting away and all of a sudden the car yells "WOULD YOU LIKE TO RUN THE VEHICLE REPORT? CLICK OK TO CONTINUE." It was so loud and startled both of us. I can't imagine how scary it would be if you were driving along by yourself. It didn't say anything else the rest of the way home!

Bear Art - Can You Spot It?

After a very scientific study, I have concluded that all the art all over the hotel is the same. If a room only has one picture, it is the cursive L looking line drawing. If there are two pictures, it is some kind of leaf stencil. I can't think what the word is.

But this week, there is a third picture. This is actually surprising because I'm in the smallest room yet. It may be the same size as the tiny room, but something is different because the lone queen bed is shoved up against the wall. But I digress. I actually like the third picture because when I look at it I see a bear face. Can you "spot" it?

Green Keys

Being my bad green self, I like to think that all the things I leave in my hotel room, like card keys and the business cards they leave in my door, get reused. But every week I have to take one of the keys with me because I have to use it to get out of the parking garage. I usually bring it back the next week and leave it with the other key from that week. However, I have forgotten a few times and this week I have a stash of seven keys to leave behind. In case you were curious, the second one from the left is the infamous key from last week. Looks innocent, doesn't it?

I wonder what the housekeeper will think when she sees all these keys!

Things Bailey Does

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you a special feature, "Things Bailey Does."

In an effort to stop her from sleeping on the new comforter, I laid the plastic on top of it. Apparently that made it more appealing.


After tirelessly trying to open the item's clamshell packaging...

Bailey learned a lesson we have all discovered: it is impossible and it is better not to try.