Ralph Fults was known for being a stickler for the law and his inability to get out of places.
 Physical characteristics of people with Stickler can include flat cheeks, flat nasal bridge, small upper jaw, pronounced upper lip groove, small lower jaw, and palate abnormalities, these tend to lessen with age and normal growth and palate abnormalities can be  treated with routine surgery
 It also stemmed from the enforced proximity and Blanche's resentment at being used as the gang's factotum

