What's the deal with ...

... people who don't flip on their turning signal until they are actually turning?

Note to clueless driver: I know you're turning. You're going around a corner for goodness sake.

The point of a signal is to inform other drivers IN ADVANCE!!!

What's the deal?

What’s the deal with Iowa?

Iowa gets to choose the nation’s presidential candidates? Since when did we let Iowa choose anything?

We all know that Iowa always bring a layered Jell-O dish to the potluck loaded with grated carrots, when nobody wants vegetables in their Jell-O. They want peaches in their Jell-O.

And we all know that whenever we let Iowa buy pizza, Iowa always has to have pineapple as a topping, when everybody else wants pepperoni.

And don’t get me started on Iowa’s insistence on wearing Carhartt as formalwear.

So why does Iowa get to choose our presidential candidates?

Don’t get me started on New Hampshire.

Mmm-bye.

What’s the deal with “mmm-bye”?

Everyone (myself included) adds a humming “mmm” before they say “bye” and hang up the phone. But ask them about it, and no one remembers doing it. And no one ever goes “mmm-hello.”

It’s one of those weird verbal ticks that fly under the radar.

Theories anyone?

What's the deal with slow drivers on old Highway 212?

Driving east or west between Chaska and Eden Prairie on the highway (now called County Road 61), I am always behind a driver going 10-15 mph below the speed limit -- in good driving conditions.

Is it such a scenic drive that people go slow, or don't they know the posted speed?

I mean, better to slow than too fast, but what's the deal?

What's the deal with drivers who hold their cell phones in one hand while gesticulating with their other hand?

It's something I've been seeing more and more often, and I have two big questions for these people:

No. 1: Who are you gesturing too? The person on the other end of the line can't see you passionately moving about your hand to express your point.

No. 2: Who the heck is driving the car?

What's the deal with the intercom voices at fast food drive-throughs?

First, there's a voice that tries to sell you something (Would you like two cherry pies with that?), and then there's the second, different, voice that takes your order.

Is that first voice actually a recording? Or is it someone talking to you from a call center in another state?

I think the second voice is the person who actually takes your money.

What's the deal?

What's the deal with all these nice new vehicles that apparently don't come with blinkers? Or maybe they come with drivers that don't know how to use blinkers? Your guess is as good as mine.

(Mollee Francisco is a staff writer for the Chaska Herald. She can be reached at [email protected].)

What's the deal with sun glares? You know, when you take a photograph, and you get spots on the image from the sun's reflection off the lens?

Well, as a coworker pointed out to me, the new Star Trek movie has numerous sun glares. But much of that movie was created digitally -- so the sun glares were created artificially. Pixar, as I recall, is also a frequent user of the "sun glare" effect -- and those are completely computer animated, with no camera work.

I'm starting to see sun glares used more and more often in action movies.

So, while most of us are trying to avoid sun glares with our camera work, Hollywood is going out of its way to artificially create sun glares artificially.

What's the deal with those Sprite commercials where people start running into each other and explode into ... water?!!!

Or is it Sprite? I'm not quite sure.

In any case, that advertisement frightens me.

What happens if I drink Sprite and accidentally bump into someone? Is that the end of me? Just squeegee my remains and pour me into a casket, or decanter.

What's the deal with the sound quality on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien? I caught the show's premiere with the band Pearl Jam and the sound quality was terrible.

Last night John Mayer performed "California Dreamin," and it sounded like a California nightmare.

These musicians are playing in a brand new Tonight Show studio, but it sounded like they were performing in a quonset hut.

I enjoy O'Brien, but what's the deal with the sound quality?

Not too long ago I saw a young girl (sans helmet) cruising down the bike path along Highway 41 as it passes Clayhole Lake looking ... straight ahead? No, at her phone, as she texted while gliding down the bluff path.

What's the deal with the basketball-size Honecrisp apples?

They were the only honeycrisp variety available at the grocery the other day.

Don't they sell "individual" size honeycrisp apples any more. Because really, these are "family size."

And how do they grow them that big anyway? Is it some sort of watermelon/apple hybrid?