Better yet, remove autohide and you get a more OSX-like experience instead:
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/07/disab...behaviour.html
As for odd things in operating systems, why do some make it so hard to figure out how to reboot or shut down? Windows 8 buried it, and for the life of me I never even found it on Fedora when using a live CD. I just held the power button down.