When I flew in Brazil in the Eighties the “smoking section” was the left side of the plane.

Yikes!

Me too.

Car Crash TV! Hysterially funny video clip show from the UK, on Amazon. It will improve your vocabulary, too. “That driver in the red saloon went through the junction without using his indicators! What a wally!”

Oh, you spoiled it!

I did do the facial snapshot thing the last time I flew, from Syracuse NY, but I had my hat and glasses on and thus wondered how accurate it was going to be.

I just started reading the works of Mary Webb, who wrote the original novel of Gone to Earth. It’s a strange story and would be intriguing to see as a film. 

Maybe they should have an illustration, as with slippery-road signs, like a picture of things flying out of the vehicle.

There‘s a speed hump (now I know the difference) in front of my next-door neighbor’s house, adjacent to a 30-mile-an-hour area. Ah, the clunking, the scraping, and the clanking all day, as things bounce and fly out of pick-up trucks or off the back of vehicles. Bicycles, boxes, ladders, hubcaps, random pieces of metal.

Ah, Breezewood... My poverty years when I would take the bus from Pittsburgh to NYC.

Especially when they warn you that the exit only goes to somebody’s ranch.

I refer you to “The Natural Superiority of Women” by (male) anthropologist Ashley Montagu.

We also got to see an impressive amount of peen.

In other news, a fun fact: during filming, Ricardo Montalban had to shave his arms once a week. He said he used to get “Wednesday shadow”.

I dislike the term “woke” not because of what it purportedly implies — I’m from the days when “politically correct” was not used ironically — but because it’s ungrammatical! “Woke” is the past tense of a verb, not an adjective or a past participle. Didn’t youse guys pay attention in English class?

Maybe the writer and/or the studio thought Trudy sounded more “relatable” than Gertrude. I remember reading about her, too. I got the impression she was the inspiration for the character of Velvet Brown’s mother in “National Velvet”.

I was at a gas station in suburban Salt Lake City waiting for a taxi and was extremely surprised when a man drove up in his Cadillac and left it running while he went inside the store. I was sitting right in front of it, maybe he figured I’d watch it for him.

He’s an actor’s actor. You’ve probably seen him without realizing it: 1917, His Dark Materials, and of course Ripley. All worth watching.

The main tip I gleaned from driving lessons as an adult was: “See a ball, see a kid.” That includes grown-up kids playing soccer or frisbee. Also: “See a deer, expect two more.” Not sure the self-driving car comprehends that.

To be honest, the last time I sat in the exit row I eyed the sign on the door that advises that it could weigh 40 lbs., and I thought, Hmm, maybe I’m getting too old for this. Then when I had to squeeze into my seat on the connecting flight I considered going back to lifting weights.