Red and Rover by Brian Basset for September 16, 2016

I’m such a desperate reader that I’ll read product boxes if nothing else is at hand. Cereal, allergy medicine, anything. There’s now a joke between my husband and myself that started when we were riding down the highway one day. He asked me a question about something odd, and I just so happened to have read a billboard on the subject a few minutes past. When I answered him, to his surprise, he asked me how I knew. I said, “I read billboards.” It’s now my stock answer for all the arcane, little-useful stuff that populates my brain. He’s zinged me with it in return a few times.