Jason Bailey

Deep down, apparently we all wish we could live in a world where we didn’t have neighbors. At least that’s what I’m getting from this survey.

It asked people what bothers them when they’re sitting in their backyard, enjoying the summer . . . and it appears all 10 things are caused by their neighbors. No one picked “mosquitoes” or “humidity”.Instead, they picked these . . .

#1.) Noise from the neighbor’s TV or radio.

#2.) Late-night parties . . . specifically, quote, “adults acting like three-year-olds and groups of middle-aged women shrieking.”

#3.) Children.

#4.) Power tools.

#5.) Alarms going off.

#6.) Hot tubs.

#7.) Barbecue smoke.

#8.) Bright security lights.

#9.) The smell of fabric softener from clothes hanging outside.

#10.) Musical instruments.

Other complaints that didn’t make the top 10 include dogs barking, wind chimes . . . and chickens.

The great thing about being really rich and really spiteful is, you can pull off great revenge schemes.

There’s a guy in the Detroit area named Alan Markovitz who owns several strip clubs, and apparently is regarded as some kind of strip club genius.

But he recently got divorced after being married for two years, when he caught his wife cheating on him. Then she moved in with the other guy in an expensive suburb of Detroit.

So Alan got his revenge . . . by buying the house next door, and putting up a huge statue of a hand with the middle finger up, pointed right at his ex-wife’s house.

He even installed a spotlight to shine on it, to make sure it was visible 24 hours a day. And if you’re wondering, yeah, it’s legal under the First Amendment.

If you want to the pics of it click here.

Mother’s Day is Sunday May 8th . . . just over two weeks out. Plenty of time to shop. But according to a new survey, a lot of moms would be happy if they just got a day to themselves this year.

12% of the women in the survey said a day off is the number one thing they want for Mother’s Day. But only 2% expect to actually get one.

The only thing that ranked higher was a handmade gift. All the women in the survey had kids under 18 though, so that’s why. But if you’re 38 and want to make your mom a macaroni necklace, we say go for it. Then call in and tell us how it went.

The survey also found the top things moms expect to get this year are a card . . . a handmade gift . . . and flowers. And 9% said they expect to get nothing.

They also had to name the worst gifts they’ve ever gotten. And the answers included a vacuum cleaner . . . having to listen to their kids fight all day . . . and having to spend the day with their mother-in-law.

They did the “kiss cam” thing at the Celtics-Hawks playoff game on Tuesday night.  And when it showed one couple in the stands kissing, a girl behind them stuffed her face with pizza . . . with a slice in each hand.

She knew she was on camera though

I grew up right here in Cookeville, born at Cookeville General in 1973 and graduated from CHS class of ’92! (woot woot) I’ve been to Nashville many times in life and not once have I ever heard of Nashville Hot Chicken!! Okay… so I did move away for 20 years so maybe I missed it somehow. When did Hot Chicken become a thing?

Thrillist did a list of the most important food innovation from each state, and yes Nashville Hot Chicken was the food they picked as the most important from Tennessee.

Here are some highlights.

1. Colorado’s most important innovation was Chipotle . . . the restaurant chain, not the spice. They also say Georgia’s most important innovation was Waffle House . . . Massachusetts’s is Dunkin’ Donuts . . . and Washington’s is Starbucks.

2. Iowa’s is sliced bread. Yep, Iowa literally invented sliced bread. It was invented and patented in Davenport, Iowa.

3. Louisiana’s is hot sauce.

4. Kentucky’s is bourbon.

5. And North Dakota’s is . . . unknown. The writers just said it’s definitely not lutefisk, but they couldn’t find anything else.

I did find this write up on Nashville Hot Chicken that’s pretty interesting.

It’s almost painful for me to see something that fulfills such an old, tired stereotype.

According to a new survey, just under half of men say they don’t know their anniversary date.

Married guys under 25 are the worst about it . . . 62% can’t remember their anniversary date. Men over 55 are the best, only 33% can’t remember. Which is still one out of three.

Only 3% of women surveyed said they’d ever forgotten an anniversary, even just once.

The survey also found that about one out of four guys has forgotten to buy flowers for a special occasion, and had to grab them from a gas station.

One in five women say they’ve bought flowers for themselves because they knew their boyfriend or husband wasn’t romantic enough to do it.

Jana Kramer has done lots of things leading up to becoming a Country Music Superstar… You might remember her from the TV show “One Tree Hill” or the Nationwide Commercial.

Now she has a new baby and was just nominated for Female Vocalist Of The Year at the ACM’s this year.

Jana is still working with Nationwide spreading the word about keeping kids safe at home. Check out the web site makesafehappen.com

Here’s a perfect anecdote about how filthy bathrooms can get at a truck stop.

They’re so disgusting, they can breed new life. In South Africa, scientists discovered a brand new life form . . . in a, quote, “filthy” bathroom at a truck stop.

The scientists found a never-before-seen order of bugs. An order is bigger than a species . . . basically, species fall into an order. The scientists say this is like discovering bats if you never knew bats existed.

The bugs are small and bright green . . . they look kind of like pear-shaped crickets . . . and they’ve been named Manto-phasma-todes. The scientists found six unique species in the bathroom and took some to their labs to investigate more.

Check out four things parents did back then that could get them arrested today.

1. Leaving you home alone. A lot of states have laws now that say you can’t leave a child unsupervised if they’re under 12. In some states it’s younger than that, and in Illinois it’s 14. (Check your state here.)

So you see stories like the one in South Carolina, where a woman got arrested back in July for letting her 9-year-old play at a park while she worked at McDonald’s.

2. Smoking while you were in the car. A bunch of states are still in the process of making it illegal to smoke cigarettes with kids in the car. But six states have already done it: Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Maine, Oregon, and Utah.

3. Letting you ride in the car without a seatbelt. All 50 states now have laws that require car seats or seat belts for kids. New Hampshire is the only one where adults don’t have to wear a seatbelt . . . they just officially ‘suggest’ it.

In most cases you won’t get arrested for it, you’ll get a fine. But if you crash and they get hurt because they weren’t buckled in, you could see jail time.

4. Taking photos of you in the tub. It’s legal to take photos of your kids in the buff . . . but in 2008, a couple in Arizona took a roll of film to Walmart, and the person who developed it thought some of the bath photos were child pornography.

All the charges were eventually dropped. But both parents had to register as sex offenders until it was dealt with . . . the mom got suspended from her job at a school . . . and their kids ended up in foster care for a month.

If you accept that bacon is an all-American food . . . which you should . . . then by that logic, the states that love it the most also love America the most.

A new study ranked the 50 states on their love of bacon, based on the percentage of the bacon photos on Instagram they posted. And the state that loves bacon the most is . . . Nebraska. Tennessee is 8% above national average. Tennessee is home to bacon master Allan Benton, considered the “king of pork” by some of America’s top chefs.But we didn’t crack the top 10

People in Nebraska post 132% more bacon photos than the national average. The rest of the top 10 bacon loving states are:

West Virginia . . . Iowa . . . Colorado . . . Missouri . . . Connecticut . . . Alabama . . . Ohio . . . Wisconsin . . . and New Hampshire.

The state that’s the most anti-bacon is Hawaii. People there post 48% fewer photos of bacon than the national average. The rest of the 10 bacon hating states are:

Kansas . . . Florida . . . California . . . New York . . . New Mexico . . . Nevada . . . Mississippi . . . Idaho . . . and Washington.

Click image to open interactive version (via Ginny’s)