Monday, 21 April 2008

  • Organized Chaos, Strategized Randomosity

    Ever wonder why telephone poles are all perfectly round and made of wood? Next time you go out, try to count all of the telephone poles that you see. Imagine just how many trees had to die so squirrels can electrocute themselves and we can sit at home on our computers and send random thoughts flying through cyberspace. What's up with making them all round? Wouldn't it be just as economical to make square telephone poles? And what happens to all the telephone poles after they've been deemed "unsafe" and are taken down to be replaced with yet another dead  tree?

    There is a woman who comes into the store where I work every week and buys about $60 dollars worth of plastic-packaged groceries. She does not have those convenient cloth shopping bags that you can buy at Boyers for $.99, but she insists that she won't need a plastic shopping bag because: "It'll only end up in a landfill, and it's time we all started thinking about that. The environment has suffered enough because of uninformed people's negligence." She then shuffles out the store(groceries piled precariously, and often falling on the floor) opens the door of her VERY new, VERY large, SUV and drives away. This woman is not married. She does not have children, or a job that would warrant owning such an automobile for any other purpose than for pleasure. I truly do not understand that woman. 

    Well, all of you have a lovely day!

    -karaleigh



Comments (4)

  • RoseKay

    love the post. . . you have such a way with words. . . . so is that why you drive a small car and carry a longaberger basket when you go grocery shopping???. . . btw, I think they grind up the old telephone poles and they become paper.

  • camerawoman

    You should write more often! I enjoyed reading this post very much, b/c of you being my friend and knowing you didn't fall off the face of the earth (just picking), and also b/c of your writing style!! You go girl! Have a WONDERFUL week, Rachel

  • Danigirl_416

    to answer your question about the poles: a few monthes ago we had a storm that blew down three of them outside of my house...the next day they were all sawed in half, and they are all still sitting there in nice neat piles...they all turned into fancy lawn decorations. lol. :)

  • aquastarrynight
    uh-huh

    This, my dear, is a fantastic post. The environmentalist in me is proud of you. At the risk of sounding too much like the social history major that I am, the point that you make about the woman refusing plastic grocery bags but driving an SUV is excellent, and too often ignored.  A huge part of the whole be-environmentally-conscious trend is just how much money it can wring from people who like the earth and don't want to see it destroyed, as companies claim it will be if you don't buy their "green" products.

    As to the telephone pole query...good question. :) I'm not at all sure why that is, I'm sure there's some sort of bs institutional response.

    Good post. I'm proud of you...you're thinking in my language. :)

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