Ben Gay

• Why didn't Mrs. Franklin have any children?
• I think that was an old Carnac schtick.
• Or, Hop-Sing say maybe reason Pa Cartwright never re-marry.
• Anyway, I may need some of that stuff (the muscle reliever, not the gay), as Daughter and I have been on three bike rides in as many days.
• We've seen a ton of soccer moms - they all seem to have high-pitched squeaky, Valley Girl type voices, though I suspect some were only being born during the Valley Girl days.
• We also saw this along the trail:

• Daughter spotted the reptile.  Normally, she picks up grass snakes and garter snakes in my backyard, but she noted that this one was different.  Good thing.  It had quite a bit of spring in it - could strike out about 5" (and was only about 8-1/2" to begin with).
• Venomous snakes and women - different, but similar.
• We stopped at a playground.  As we left, a group of young people (looked like junior high kids) were nearby, with an older teenager holding a clipboard, who spoke as we passed, "Sir you look like the kind of person who would like to sign a petition (thought bubble: you've gotta be [kidding] me...) against restaurants that discriminate on the basis of sexual...
• I don't know why he thought I looked like I wanted to sign his petition, but without slowing our bikes or even turning to look, I simply said "Uh, not so much."
• I don't know if he was the same pixie who tried to get a local Mayor and Council to sign his petition.  I wasn't in the mood to debate the issue, or looking for confrontation, but had he pushed his luck, I would have artfully articulated, yea gleefully, the argument against his 'victimhood' cause.
• While the economy crumbles,  'activism' is apparently a growth industry.
• Perhaps the human pharmaceutical industry is slowing - is Fido pharmacy the next frontier?

Probably just selling them to their friends in the kennel.