Thanks for the observations. Keep them coming, because I'll be back for more.

John, I too have my doubts about that giraffe. They're tall, but they're not that tall.

I have unusually sensitive hearing. One day, when I was a newbie to flying, I said to my husband "I don't understand how those people in front of us can stand that hissing." He shot into the air and shouted,

"You hear a hissing!?"

He summoned a stewardess, who slouched down the aisle chewing her gum. (Did I mention this was a cheap airline?) When we described the hissing, that kid was simply galvanized. She got the engineer. Turns out our window was in danger of coming out, and the hissing was the air jetting through the seal. We had to change seats, we landed, and we all got put on a different plane.

But don't let that distract you from thinking of baffling things you saw in the United States from an airplane.