Questions I have been pondering

I went to WV for my Momma’s funeral (that my dad’s mom).  On the drive I pondered several questions I thought I would share since they provided me with some minor entertainment:

1. Why is the runaway truck lane on a 7% grade mountain at the top of the road and not in the middle where the runawayness is likely to happen?
2. If your last name is Goodlatte and you don’t like coffee what do you do?  (from a campaign sign in Maryland)
3. If you are not a funeral crasher, why would you go to a funeral of a person you don’t know?  (a man showed up at my grandma’s funeral that no one in my family knows and when asked his connection to the family, i.e. did you know her, he tried to claim a relationship with one of my uncle, who didn’t know him.  He was polite, didn’t give to excessive crying, he just came, talked to a couple of my aunts and uncles, sat, listened, left).
4. How did I, who can’t sing, get roped into singing at my Momma’s funeral?  (I sang with two of my cousins and my mom—I think I was successfully drowned out!).
5. Why did I have to drive back on a Sunday?  (I really wanted to eat at Chick fil a since we don’t have one near by me.  I saw one, was hungry, pulled off the interstate, went to the drive thru, waited . . . waited . . . no one asked to take my order, greeted me . . . then I realized that they are closed on Sundays!)
6. How did I get a rental car with MN plates when I rented my car in MA?  (I grew up in MN and think it is a little ironic that I ended up with a car from MN when my parents, who drove from MN ended up with a car from OK)
7. Who knew I could get tired of my own voice?  (I updated my iTouch and got a free new application, voice memo.  I had a test the Tuesday I returned and was going to waste 12 hours on way back not studying, which cause me some degree of stress.  I recorded all my notes and terms from the book on my iTouch and listened to them over and over and over again.  I was so tired of hearing myself I must confess I was glad my battery died!) *update* got my test back and I got an A—yippee from iTouch Voice Memo!
8. Why does it cost $8 to cross the George Washington Bridge?  And why didn’t Google tell me?  (on an annoyed side note, I spent an hour waiting to pay my stupid toll and cross that silly bridge.  I have never been so happy to see a bridge in my life, since I spent a good 45 mins around the bend and couldn’t see it.  Of course on a positive note, I got to talk to my grandma for an hour).
9. How do you know you have reached the south?  Trucks have stickers/tags/window vinyl of guns/hunting/animals, there are Christian radio stations, there are Cracker Barrels at every other exit, the lady at the gas station calls you “honey,” and rivers have names like Cowpasture River.
10. Why do people give flowers to you when someone dies?  I mean, it’s just something else to die.  Ok, I guess if you have a green thumb their fate is not so morbidly set, but still.  *looked it up, “From time immemorial flowers were used to control the offensive and obnoxiousness of body decomposition.”  That makes a lot of sense to me and it kind of makes me laugh, obnoxious indeed.

I pondered other questions, but they were of a more serious nature and not so easily answered.

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