While I'm at it, Another Electrical Question

[RedThunder]

During a drive to a vette show yesterday, the early morning, low sun was in my eyes. I pulled down the visor and noticed the mirror light was on (with the cover down). I checked the passenger side, and nope....no mirror light.

Later, at the show, I checked the mirror light with the car parked and the engine off. No mirror light.

A second issue I noticed at yesterday's show was my rear hatch lights stayed on as long as I had it open....they never shut off during a specific time like the other interior and rearview mirror light). I went so far as to remove the courtesy lights fuse and the hatch lights remained on.

I hate to sound stupid, and I have the electrical shop manual (which I can't understand anyway), so I thought I'd bring the question(s) here to see if anybody else has had a similar prob or can shed some light on things (pun intended).