> There's a word for the phenomenon where you are introduced to a word or concept and from that point on suddenly start to perceive it everywhere around you, to the point where you wonder if you were just not picking up on it all along. But I forget what it is.

I know what you mean. When mom got a '98 Ford Taurus, they popped up EVERYWHERE! At first I thought everyone wanted to me like mom, but I just realized that I never noticed them before she got one. The worst thing about it, everyone got the same color! I come out of Wal-Mart and have to pass 10 white Taurus' until I come to the right one. I'm just glad she put a sticker on the back window so that it will be one-of-a-kind and I won't look like an idiot walking up to the wrong car and get maced by an 80 year old woman who owns it.

Wedge