Call it a quirk, call it a one-of-a-kind story, call it pure luck, or you can call it Port Townsend Observation Deck News Around Town.

T-SHIRT SAYING OF THE WEEK: “I didn’t move to Port Townsend so I could conform to national standards.”

FERRY NEWS: “I have a name for the state’s new ferry,” says a Port Townsend woman who “reads the Leader front to back every week,” and noticed the story about the state wanting to name a new boat. Her nomination: “Kalakala II.” Of course, there is an angle: she was born aboard the famous ferry in 1942, on the way from Bremerton to Seattle. The Kalakala (1935-1967) is gone, and Washington State Ferries has decided the new boat, a sister to the under-construction M/V Chimacum, will be named either Cowlitz, Sammamish or Suquamish. Oh well, at least my Leader Reader friend will always be a baby born on the Kalakala.

ADVICE OF THE WEEK: “A quirk will pay off somewhere.”

LUCKY NEWS: A woman motorist in her big SUV gets pulled over by a state trooper along U.S. Highway 101 in Quilcene for driving 37 mph in the 30 mph zone. “I told him, ‘I have no excuse. I know I was speeding.’” The trooper takes her license and registration. “I know I’m getting a ticket,” she tells the trooper. “It’ll be my first one in 37 years of driving.” The trooper returns and says, “As far as I can tell, you’ve never even had a warning. I’m not going to be the first one to give you a ticket. Keep your speed down and have a good night.”

SCANNER CALL OF THE WEEK: After initially advising law enforcement that a reporting party has said a deer was struck by a vehicle in Port Townsend and was “mostly dead,” the radio dispatcher has an update: “The mostly dead deer has arisen and is walking toward a field.”

QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I’ve been married six times and all of my wives had the same name,” says a guy who goes by the name of Tennessee. “What?” I say, “Cheryl?” He responds, “No. Plaintiff.”

(Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader Editor Patrick J. Sullivan hopes that Tennessee has better luck with No. 7.)