Lessons Learned From Traveling

1) Air Tran Airlines is unrepentant about tardiness.
2) They will not probably label the gate you should be departing from.
3) They will label a different gate instead.
4) ALWAYS pack your keys in your carry-on, so when they loose your bags you can still get in your house.
5) Under no circumstances can non-permitted people video tape on U.S. Capital grounds with a tripod.
6) Washington DC security is pretty laid back overall and will probably search you less than going to a county courthouse.
7) Swanky hotels are the bomb.

Lessons Learned about Cars

Note. All of these lessons occurred today.

1. Two nails right next to each other in the the same tire mean you need a new tire.
2. Discount Tire Company gives you a free new tire if this happens.
3. You will still have to insure the new tire. This costs money.
4. For no reason, a fuel pump will give out in a vehicle.
5. Trying to save money by not getting it towed may seem like a good idea, but pushing a car is a very slow, very tiring process.
6. People should just push cars instead of getting a gym membership. Strength training and aerobic training in one.
7. Fuel pumps are expensive.
8. No one will give you a free fuel pump.
9. To get a new fuel pump in, the gas that you just purchased will have to be flushed from the car.
10. Some people like to key cars for no apparent reason.
11. You can easily dent a wheel by driving over a pothole.
12. New wheels costs money.
13. Cars are expensive!

Lessons While Traveling/ On Vacation

1) Montana does not understand what road work is.
2) Wear thick socks while golfing (this is a relearn for me).
3) I am not as old as I think I am, I can still stay up late or early as the case may be.
4) Doberman puppies can be fun and are really cute.
5) Andy can rally.
6) Phil, when challenged, will accomplish.
7) Landon is a lightweight.
8) People will claim their children, but not defend them.
(a teenager, maybe 14 or 15 jumped out off a rope over us, after we told him to wait as we were floating down the river on tubes and we couldn't move, but he could wait. Well he went and flew over us landing about a foot away. He very easily could have landed on us, creating injuries to the 4 of us and himself. Andy called him a dumb ass, and a man on the shore said, "Hey! That's my kid.", not "Don't call my kid a dumb ass." I wouldn't have claimed him myself if he was my kid at that moment as the kid was a dumb ass.)
9) Just stay in your tube if you hit a low spot on the river.
10) Bethel follows me where ever I go.
11) You can climb a bronze elk statue, but you better be ready to run.
12) You can't always trust that Danika knows where she is going, even if she is really confident about it.
13) Billings equals bad drivers and tacky palm trees.
14) I never want to live in Idaho Falls, or Grand View, Washington.
15) My brother can pee vertically, and will giggle like a 2 year old while doing it.
16) Eastern Washington sucks, western Washington is amazing.

Lessons Learned about American Express

1. Not everywhere takes American Express
2. Even if there is a sign on the gas pump that says they take American Express, they still may not accept it.
3. If there is not pay-at-the-pump, you will not learn this until you go inside to pay.
4. Always keep extra money in your car.
5. You will feel like a big loser if you do not have enough extra money in your car.

Lessons Learned from Golfing

1. Wear a glove. Hand blisters hurt real bad.
2. Private golf clubs are snooty.
3. Whereas wearing sunglasses may seem like a good idea at the time, the tan lines on the side of your face from the sunglasses are not a good thing.
4. Beer helps.
5. Someone will always leave a club behind. Capitalize on this situation.
6. Golf balls are expensive.
7. Golf is fun.

Lessons learned from this weekend

a) As much as I wish I could, I can no longer drink like a 22-year-old.
b) Flasks will get you kicked out of Psycho-Suzi's
c) If you try to drink like a 22-year-old, you might get your freak on, and dance like a fool on stage, and get kicked off there too.
d) Cabs are a beautiful thing.
e) If one of your in-town male friends decides to head to an after party with three girls, he will lose his cell phone, hang with crack-heads, but somehow make his way back in the morning.
f) "Shot time" may occasionally be mandatory.
e) I still look like a child, as I got carded for an R-rated movie.
g) If you ask the ticket seller at the theater if she is kidding after she asks for ID, she may get upset.
h) I dominate at fantasy football.
i) Elections blow.

Lessons on kissing

Don't ask a girl if you can kiss her, especially if you are already a couple of inches away. If she doesn't want to kiss you she will turn her head or pull away. If you ask, the moment is probably ruined and she may not want to kiss you anymore mainly d/t frustration. (This, boys, is based on a discussion with several girls, so it is not a one girl opinion)

Lessons about garages

1) Parking in a garage is a beautiful thing
2) There is no scraping frost of your windshield
3) There is no brushing snow off your car