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The continental divide.  My recent road trip took me across east of Gallup, New Mexico.  It’s the dividing line between watersheds in the United States.  I noticed on this trip that it’s the dividing line for something else, as well.  Toilet seat covers.  West of the divide, almost every rest stop, truck stop, diner, or other public toilet has a dispenser mounted on a wall where you can grab a paper cover for the seat.  East of the divide, nothing.  You have your choice….  toilet paper, hover, or bare skin on seat.  One place had a sanitizer dispenser in the stall.  Instructions directed you to dispense sanitizer onto toilet paper, and then clean the seat.  Otherwise, you take your seat, and you take your chances.  It can’t be that men east of the divide are somehow more sanitary than those on the west side…..  boy, it’s not that!  There was a definite need for the covers, they just weren’t available.  (Ladies, if you share a bathroom with a man, don’t quibble about the seat being left up.  Believe me, you should want it left up!  It’s better for all concerned.) I mentioned this observation to my buddy in Columbus. He’s from California originally, and he told me he had noticed the same thing.  No clue why the seat covers are an unknown item on the east side.  My mystery of the moment.

Oh, and if you’re ever in the Waffle House in Columbus, the one out on the northeast side were Sandy works, watch out for the hand dryer in the men’s room.  That thing must have been a jet engine in a previous life!  It will grab you by the hands, flip you around a few times, and then throw you to the ground!  And as long as it’s running you might as well be in outer space, because no one can hear you scream……