It's the little things

A couple things I've noticed since Jack Bauer has come home.

Parking: It appears that when you've spent 20 months in Iraq not driving much or spending time in insanely large vehicles, the lines in the grocery store parking lot in the US have little meaning. They apparently are just a "guideline."

Sleeping: It appears that when you've spent 20 months in Iraq with sand that gets into every single crevice and in your sheets, you get used to this. So when you come home and start doing large amounts of work in the backyard with fresh dirt, and some it gets in between the sheets, you don't mind so much. Even though the wife can't stand even the slightest bit of grit between her and the sheets. Good thing I wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating crackers tracking in dirt.