the state of the world

this weekend, I learned a few things about the state of the world I live in:

people still leave notes if they bumped your car in the parking lot. a guy hit my car in the parking lot over the weekend, and actually left me a real note about it. over the course of talking about repairs with him, I thanked him four times for the note. I even expressed gratitude to his insurance claims rep, and amazement to my claim rep. I mean, it makes me wonder if I, or other people I know, would do the same in that situation...

you are not a true hockey fan if you... knock over a crabby middle-aged man's soda while trying to get to your seat; he will mutter such a thing to his wife if this occurs. actually, I'm absolutely positive that the guy was griping over a friend's poor choice of leading us to our seats in the middle of the play. this friend is a baseball fan, and knows better sports ettiquette than this, but I think he was just excited to be there. anyway, I happened to knock over a guy's soda, and he happened to get crabby about it. I then happened to get crabby over the somewhat strange culture of missouri hockey fans, but at least I knew what was going on during the game.

women my age are paranoid about being preggers. four of us(!) at whole foods experienced winter weight gain in the month of january and had a moment of scare about something possibly growing in our lady parts. we all laughed about it on saturday, as we learned that we'd all been having similar conversations separately (and that none of us was actually with child, but were just feeling the woes of winter). internally, I couldn't help but think, "did we learn nothing about unprotected sex in all of our years?" I guess not...

I'll let you know what else I learn later.