Commuting - Pirate

I love feeling like a pirate when I commute by bike.

Yes, I am beating the system. No, I don't have to use an expensive, gas-guzzling, pocketbook-busting, enslaving, wasteful car to get to work.

I am a pirate, stealing back my freedom, and I love it.

(And check out my heartbeat...)

Does your bike fly a Jolly Roger? ...or do you steal incognito?

Arrr! Where's me eyepatch, matey?

Clips ahoy!!!

Originally posted by RainmanP
Arrr! Where's me eyepatch, matey?
We be thieves, the lot of us!

Can't help it! I feel like I'm getting something for nothing! Is that "un-American?"

(The guilt is unbearable. This week, I will go out and buy some gas, just to contribute a little back for what I owe...)

I do my part to make amends by saying "Plastic" in response to the supermarket check-out query. I think the plastic's made from petroleum. Anyway I know paper isn't.

'Tis honor among us thieves, though, Petey, me boy!

Yes, JonR, plastic is made from petroleum. Ironically, my father, who spent his working career as a petroleum engineer for an oil company, is appalled by the proliferation of throwaway plastic packaging. He considers it a terrible waste of a precious resource by our convenience-oriented society. He almost always asks for paper bags.

Originally posted by JonR
I do my part to make amends by saying "Plastic" in response to the supermarket check-out query. I think the plastic's made from petroleum. Anyway I know paper isn't.

Yes, but then I use those plastic bags to aid my commute. I carry my work clothes in them. I wrap my lunch in them. I carry some as emergency rain booties. I also use them as trash bags around the house. The damn things are so useful and re-usable that I actually feel virtuous asking for them at the checkout.

I do occasionally ask for paper to bundle newspapers in for recycling, though.

RichC

Whether we waste oil or trees for bags, seems a moot issue. It's still a waste.

Look at it this way: plastic bags might play a key role in future archeological research.

We do want future generations to remember us, don't we?

Anyway, I'm guilty. I use them to keep things dry in my sweaty backpack, matey! BUT--I'm REUSING THEM!

:D

Most people probably save them to reuse. When I've accumulated a large bag full I donate them to the Salvation Army store. They use them to wrap clothes, dishes ...whatever. What happens to them after that, I don't know. They are probably pirated away in a stealthly manner on the back of someones bicycle.

I work at a small-town library, and we collect used bags because people are always asking for a bag to carry their books and/or videos. If you've got plastic bags piling up and you are near a small library, you might want to ask if they have any use for them....