June 7th - Junebug Day (Gift Shops)

Today is Junebug Day, and like May Day, I'm not quite sure what a junebug exactly is. After "extensive research," a June bug is a type of scarab beetle. So that's an easy mystery solved. You know what comes to mind when I think about those kinds of beetles? Those pieces of wildlife in resin charms for bracelets you find at beach gift shops. I have a necklace with a crab in it. I don't have anything to say about beetles, so I'm going to keep going on the gift shop tangent. The other thing is when they have those pickled baby sharks. That's another preserved animal as a souvenir. On the exact other side of the gift shop world (but not literally, I've seen these items stocked next to each other): those little bobblehead turtles. Okay, the last thing I have to say is, those tables of rocks where you fill up a bag as much as you can with cool rocks? I never do anything with the cool rocks, but I always go for the rock bag because I love doing it. [EDITOR’S NOTE: You’re a fount of information, Tom. It’s a good thing you run a fact blog.]