I have always been curious … sometime about odd things.

1. Why do we drive on the right? The world is politically divided, well in some countries, like ours. While in the Air Force, I received orders to Europe in 1968. I automatically thought they drove on the left side of the road like Great Britain, but they don't. I was glad actually. I did not have any trouble adapting to their driving regulations, similar to the USA. But I often wonder why, a former colony of England, we don't drive on the left side of the road. Many early, early auto manufacturers built car with the steering on the right unlike the modern cars. The reason is the road infrastructure in the USA was already started and it was a common law with wagons, and horses traveling on the dirt road, you were to ride on the right. So since people did not like change, the car began to be built with steering on the left and thus we drive on the right side of the road.

2. Who invented the 3 day weekend? After decades of Americans working 6 and 7 days weeks in the 1800s and 1900s, workers  protested for shorter work weeks. Some protest became really bloody like the one at the early Ford Automotive plant in Michigan. So after several decades of protest the government listened (which is odd in itself) and made holidays that fell on a Friday of Monday resulted to a 3 day weekend. Some holidays actually moved to make it such. Labor Day is one, and established in 1882 to recognize workers of all jobs and trades.

3. Who started Day Light Saving Time? In 1918, during World War 1, DST was implemented to save energy for the war effort.  After the war, I guess it went away until 1942 to 1945 President Franklin Roosevelt re-established it and it was called "War Time". In 1966, the "Uniform Time Act" sort of made DST the standard, except for Hawaii and us in Arizona (thank goodness). It has been attempted bills several time to make it permanent, but still never passed in the House. I have heard many states are debating to overturn DST and go back their regular time zone.

4. When was the postal Zip Code implemented? As our country spread, the Post Office was having trouble catching up with all the new addresses. So in 1963, the Zip Code was started to actually point to a defined area and address. In 1983 the Postal Service fine tuned the Zip Code with the "Zip + 4", which a believe few people use, except for the government and advertisers sending 'Junk mail'.

5. Why do people refuse to use their turn signals for ANY change in direction they travel in a car/truck? This my personal  'Pet-Pave'. Either their indictor switch is broken, or a bulb is burned out, or they are just too lazy to flip the handle on the steering column. I said it, I am done.

6. Will 'AI' be the down fall of human workers? In my opinion, AI will replace a thousands of workers, and someday get out of control because big business see it as a cost cutting, more efficient and timesaving,. I am not against advancements (since I am at a computer now). Think about this, how many cashiers do see at the grocery compared to 15-20 years ago? How many automated calls do you get to confirm your doctor's appointment? How often do you actually speak to a human when you call Tech Support?  Automated answering message, "Hello, I am the 'Verizon Assistant'. How can I help you?" When I want a tech support person, I DON'T want a computer!

7. Why do people tend to believe the false bad facts instead of the REAL truth? I believe people believe what they already believe, and it very hard to change their opinion about anything, eventho they are shown clear facts debunking their belief.

I guess this blog edition is  not what I typically write but, I was bored today. Plus, we all read or listen to the big news anyway, so you probably did not want me to rehash that. So I write something to think about and smile.

Here's one more thing to smile at. Flashback from April 1971. Do you think they got it right?