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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...)
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...)
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Originally posted by RainmanP
Arrr! Where's me eyepatch, matey?
Arrr! Where's me eyepatch, matey?
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...)
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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.
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'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.
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.
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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.
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.
I do occasionally ask for paper to bundle newspapers in for recycling, though.
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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!
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!
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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.
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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....