Mystery solved

So the mystery may be solved … maybe Mona Lisa gave birth to a newborn and the painting was commissioned to show her after she had her baby. But wait – the Da Vinci code taught me that Mona Lisa may be Da Vinci in drag. What about the Mona Lisa smile … will it get renamed to “lady who just had a baby smile”? All of this analysis over the Mona Lisa – I’m sure Da Vinci is laughing at us right now. My theory is that it is just some woman that lived on Da Vinci’s street and who really didn’t like people and turned him down for a date. So he painted this lady in a mysterious portrait so that people could analyze her for the next 500 years. The ultimate revenge! Granted there is an air of mystery to art … what was the artist thinking? That’s what we all want to know apparently. But what about all of the day-to-day things that we don’t really give much thought to but really are remarkable. For example – how do the raccoons in my area always manage to open my garbage bin? I use all the techniques that I know to keep them out of the garbage, but every morning the bins are turned over and garbage is strewn all over the ground. Or how about why there are such long lines at the department of motor vehicles. They use this tricky numbering system that is a letter and a number – as though you are playing bingo. Why does it take 2 hours until your number is called? Those are mysteries that these scientists should be working on – at least we can all benefit from the answers!