So the latest trend here seems to be that if you own a specific make of car, you go out and get a gigantic sticker with that make’s logo on it and put it on your back window.
I’d like to say, first off, that the Dodge logo looks like a vagina.
So, all these big truck dudes that are all proud of their big trucks and want to show how manly and tough they are, well to me you’re driving around with female anatomy on your back window. This just needed to be said. I can’t really believe people would PAY MONEY to advertise for a company. But, hey, whatever.
Another trend I’ve seen is that, generally speaking, the shittier your car is, the worse a driver you are. I routinely get passed by idiots doing 90 on I-435 during rush hour and they invariably drive a galaxy of cars ranging from total hoopties to destruction-derby-survivors.
Admittedly, I’m a fan of noticing these weird trends. I blame my mom; she was the one that first pointed out that if you look at cows in a field, most of them will be facing the same direction. One of my favorite weird trends I discovered was that in my neighborhood in Columbia, the people least likely to be wearing seat belts were African-Americans and they tended to most often perform rolling stops at stop signs.
Tonight I went to the Price Chopper in my neighborhood and found it was a world away from the Price Chopper in Overland Park. This is to be expected, I guess. Their tobacco product and liquor aisles were extremely impressive. On a whim, I decided to locate their most expensive wine and…it was $9. They did, however, have bagels and they had some Evian, albeit not in 6-packs.
Disclaimer: I like Evian. Really. I am not a water snob, but Evian is the only water that I drink which leaves me wanting to drink more of it.
So far, I’ve pretty much struck out on encountering friendly/helpful employees at any place of business in my neighborhood. They all seem to universally hate life and they pass it on to customers. I’d never had awful Taco Bell until I tried the one down the street where they messed up my order and gave me what was essentially a tortilla supreme instead of a burrito supreme. This is odd considering the patrons themselves seem generally really friendly.
I have one thing that is really handy that I’ve been using a lot lately. I know a number in Columbia (our old telephone number) which is disconnected. As I was shopping for mortgages, I gave out that bum number along with a temporary email address I set up just for this. I actually called one of the lenders today to have a chat and the guy mentioned they’d been trying to call me. I said, straight up, I had given a non-working number intentionally since I was just shopping and didn’t want to be bothered. To my surprise, the guy on the other end of the line said that was a wise move. He admitted that they pester the living crap out of anyone that registers with lendingtree. Haha! 
