Of Etiquette & Fake Dandelions . . .

I've used StatCounter as my webtracker since I started this blog. Mostly, I wanted to see where people were coming from. It's always fun when you see a visitor from a place you'd never imagine your blog being read. (Some examples: Bangalore, India; Viet Nam; Serbia and Montenegro; Budapest, Hungary, and so on.) I have friends spread out across the U.S., and also into the UK, Germany and Australia, but I love seeing all these other places where people are coming from.

One thing I'd never really delved into was the actual search terms that brought people here. Most aren't that interesting, tending to be some combination of words bringing them to one of my pictures. Of the list of terms used in the last month, three stood out to me.

Who would have thought that this little rant on grocery store etiquette would garner 35% of my searches?! That came from a visit to the "Pick-Up Publix" in Vinings. (So called because of all the singles that shopped there. Supposedly, holding your handbasket a certain way told other shoppers whether you were single or taken.)

I wasn't surprised this post from last year's 366 was just over 20% of my keyword activity. I've received several emails from folks trying to locate fake dandelions of their own. Unfortunately, I've been unable to direct them as to where they can be bought. Hopefully they were successful!

The third search, and my obvious favorite, is "braves red sox tickets ridiculous" which leads you here. And, I'm not the only blogger who thinks this is ridiculous . . . even Keith from CNN thinks so! I'm still bitter about this, by the way. Don't even get me started on the unbelievable markup on prices at StubHub.