Nice to Know

      It's nice to know that if you live in a city anyone can take their dog on the bus if the animal is reasonably well-behaved and they can tell the bus driver with a straight face that Mr. Piddles is a "service animal". It's also nice to know that your service animal need not be a dog. There is a certain Hanna Montana obsessed individual who often rides the bus and totes around her "therapy hamster" in a small cage. It is also nice to know that your therapy animal may not necessarily have to be real. I have never once seen her therapy hamster and suspect it might well be imaginary.
      It's nice to know that even army guys who might seem to be straight-laced can be cool enough to lament that they can't smoke pot because of piss tests.
      It's nice to know that in the middle of downtown it's pretty safe to leave your doors unlocked all night but you have to be careful if you live a little bit out of the way where your neighbors are pretty nice.
      It's nice to know that if you leave your door unlocked during the daytime mysterious strangers will open it to leave you packages so they don't get ruined by the rain when you're gone. I love coming back to my house, checking the box and thinking we have no mail and then almost killing myself on the way in because the mail man or UPS guy left a box just inside the door.
      It's nice to know that other people are also crazy and dysfunctional.
      It's nice to know these things so that in the future I can surprise people with startling trivia. I already know a lot of non-startling and largely useless trivia but now I'm adding to my repertoire things that may vaguely alarm or (hopefully) amuse the people I know. Now if I am conversing with someone and they mention always keeping their door locked I can mention something about not really doing that because then the present faeries can't open the door to leave me packages.