Always Anna

I love living in hippie-central, aka Cambridge.  Why?

Because the BF gets things like this stuck under the windshield wiper of his Jeep:

Oh, you can’t read that?  Well, this “ticket” says:

EARTH ON EMPTY

TO OFFENDER

Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, and try to have an open mind. The ticket you have received displays the facts about excessive oil consumption in the USA, which is directly related to driving so-called sport utility vehicles. By showing this information, we hope to influence the sleeping environmentally conscious people to become active and get rid of their SUV, and ride a bike for gods sake! Another thing you can do is use your large vehicle to carpool, or take the subway!! Find out more at www.suv.org or call 1-888-4-COMMUTE. After all, there’s nothing in the american dream about sitting in traffic in your car by yourself for hours on end every day!! Try another way, you might like it!

FAILURE TO PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR OWN BEHAVIOR IS HAZARDOUS TO EVERYONE (C)

The back of the “ticket” lists some of the negative impacts of SUVs and some websites to visit for more information.

The BF and I were pretty entertained by this.  First off, we are environmentalists.  We recycle, we have cut WAY back on consumption, we take shorter showers, we donate money.  And he always carpools, takes public transportation when it’s possible, rides his bike whenever the weather is nice (assuming he has time) - everything the ticket says.  So this ticket - which, hi, is printed on paper that will now have to be recycled - isn’t teaching us anything we don’t already know.  And if we were the type of people who didn’t care about the gas-guzzling pollution we cause whenever we take the Jeep, this ticket would most likely end up littered on the ground.

That said, I love the idea.  And I love that I live in a place where people care enough to do something like this.  Even if it is a little preachy.