Trying to be a good eco-citizen (and increase my training miles at the same time) I have been commuting to work on my bike these last 6 months. Yet, for some reason Mother Nature doesn’t seem to appreciate it at all. It has been getting colder and colder every passing day. Here I am doing my best to reduce emissions and she is trying to freeze my ass off! What’s up with that?!?
The other day I reached my breaking point. After a particularly cold day, I figured it was time to take action. Did I buy an extra layer of clothes? Hell no, that would only help me stay warm. What about the rest of society? Instead, I did what any reasonable person would have done in my situation. I ran to the bathroom and collected as much aerosol hair spray canisters as I could. I sprayed them all up into the sky. After emitting as much CFCs as I had available, I felt much better that I had done my part in creating a bigger hole in the ozone, and hopefully contributing to global warming.
OK, OK. Before you get your tree-hugging panties in a bunch, I did no such thing. (Though I did consider it,) I figured I alone couldn’t do enough damage to our environment to significantly affect the weather. Oh well. Maybe all us outdoors types can agree to combine efforts to help rip the ozone a new one? If we time it right, maybe we can make it a little warmer in the winter, and then lay off for a while to give things time to normalize before summer comes around. Just a thought…
