Things I wonder about

Inspired by Mali's similar post.

Things I wondered about this morning on the way to take girls to swim camp:

*Why does this train track see trains headed east bearing coal half the time, and trains headed west, also bearing coal, half the time?

*Why did suburbia decide that alleys were bad ideas? Was it an aesthetic choice? I hate following trash trucks down two-lane secondary roads as they stop at every driveway.

Things I wondered about while traveling from photo shoot to photo shoot later in the morning:

*What were the bad funeral directors in Columbia, Missouri, thinking, anyway? This wasn't a plan that would work itself out. You can't forever collect money for cremation and hide bodies in your basement. They didn't even try to bury them or anything. What were they thinking?

*What are those construction workers going to do with that giant pile of granite curbs they've taken out to replace with shoddier concrete ones? Is there a market for 100 year old granite curbs? Why couldn't they leave well enough alone?

*How long will these new in-fill houses look new, and how badly will they age?

*I wonder if Colleen's garden is doing any better than mine.

Things I wondered about as I drove kids home from swim camp:

*How is it that in 2 weeks this swim camp has taught Sophia the 4 racing strokes but swim lessons every summer for the past three years did nothing but make her dependent on fun noodles?

*Why is Maeve's neck so short? Who does she look like?

*Does Sophia's hair breakage indicate a vitamin deficiency? Should I even mention it to the doctor and risk blood tests? When am I going to get my health-act together?

Thing I wondered about as I had dinner with friends to celebrate Sophia's birthday:

*Maybe I could join Facebook. Maybe I could join as a bird or a cat or something and be all stealthy. But why? Why would I? What purpose would it serve?

Thing I wondered as I joined Facebook:

*My God, he's still married. He's still friggin married. How stupid can that woman be?