Things I've Learned Recently

• If you're at a restaurant eating dinner with another couple, don't let your wife pull out her cell phone to use the calculator and figure out how the check should be split. It just gets messy and confusing.
• Contrary to popular belief, fried chicken, hushpuppies, and Sweet Tea for breakfast is actually delicious
  
• Round-abouts (aka traffic circles), though brilliant in foreign applications, will never work well in the American traffic system and I find communities and neighborhoods that implement them pretentious and elitist
  
• Trying to make strip malls and fast food restaurants look more classy doesn't work. They are still strip malls and fast food restaurants, it's just now they don't have good signage, good lighting, or the usual external appearance, taking away from their practical use to the customer
• Golf is stressful. I know longer see going to play a round of golf as a luxurious vacation of some sort
• Having a beer on the golf course dramatically changes your perspective on how much your mistakes really matter
  
• I am really competitive
• Overly-hyper-and-bubbly waitresses need to chill out. Someone working in the food service industry with that much energy must be hiding something... or on drugs
• There is a very real and potentially painful limit to how much fried seafood one person can eat
• Corvettes can still make women turn their heads and say "Damn! I want that car!"
• No matter what you eat at a Waffle House, you will always leave happily full and feeling dirtier than when you entered, but in a good way
• I hate Myrtle Beach
• Broadway at the Beach (in Myrtle) is the most ridiculous monstrosity in the world
• Girls with southern accents = to die for
• I can't help being attracted to a woman that serves me beer (ie: bartender, drink cart girl, brewery tour guide... etc.)
• People in the South know the difference between Virginia and Northern Virginia and treat people differently from each
• Although you may get an amazing education, compared to some of the larger universities, W&M students might only get 50% of the "college experience"
• Never take the Skyline Drive for granted. If you have the chance, set aside time and go for a drive on it at least once a year, preferably in the Fall. Drive the entire road at least once
  
• Spending too much time with one person in the car will always get old, no matter who they are
  
• It is possible to get sick of CDs that I once thought were perfect and amazing for all times and all moods, especially in the car
• Trying to listen to a CD in a convertible on the interstate is pretty much a waste of time
• Getting new CDs in the mail is like self-declared Christmas and always puts me in a good mood
• It always feels good to have someone ask, "Have you been working out?" and legitimately mean it, whether they are a golf instructor or good friend you haven't seen in a while