Jill and I have finally done it. Just like all of you, we purchased a brand new Toyota Prius, joining the proud, smug world of hybrid ownership. What's that? You...you don't HAVE a Prius? Why, how sad for you. It must be terrible to know that you are polluting our environment in a completely preventable way, each and every time you fire up your outdated, inefficient planet killer. Don't worry, I won't judge.
I took this image on my new Palm Centro. That's a SMART phone. I'm insufferable, lately.
So exactly four days after taking possession of this amazing technological wonder, I managed to scrape it against a pylon in a parking garage. I've driven large pickup trucks, moving vans, SUVs, a Mercury land yacht, and, most recently, a Ford Taurus, but I have never before managed this particular maneuvre. I uttered quite the stream of expletives (actually the same one, over and over (begins with "f", and it's not "floozy")) before my friend Kathy talked me down, and helped me to safely back the car out and find a different parking space. Thankfully, the damage was only $250, and now THAT'S out of the way.
Jonathan and Emile were recently in town. Although their presence was captured on our camcorder, I somehow managed to not take any pictures of them, so I submit the following:
Anyhow, Jonathan had asked me what they could do to help out, what with Jill's cancer and my crippling depression. I looked him in the eye and said, "Guest blog." He looked puzzled. I pressed on. "Jon, I need you to write a guest blog entry, chronicling your Seattle misadventures, with some nice pictures". Tears welling in his eyes, he swore that he would do this thing. I think that he recognized that this is bigger than all of us; yet without all of us, it's actually not that big at all. Meaning that with all of us, one can rise to the challenge and be the eye of the tiger when the final countdown begins. I'm sure that if you look within -- I mean really look within -- you'll find a misadventure or two that you could guest blog about, too.
More soon, OR NOT!
hey, you got a car! i feel so behind. I hope you love it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, i like the picture of seattle.
i wish i were funny like you.
Awwww...
ReplyDeleteWe love the car, but I've only driven it like four times in the past two weeks. It's fun to drive, for sure.
Well purchased!
ReplyDeleteTalking the green talk... but, if you really want to walk the green walk, I suggest sail power. :-p
-J
Well, you've got me there. By the way, how do you get to work, the grocery, or even your boat?
ReplyDeletePedal power, sunshine. Or, occasionally, through the agency of the dreaded internal combustion engine. We do very little driving here as a rule.
ReplyDeletesorry to burst your green bubble, old boy, but your Prius is actually more environmentally harmful than a Hummer:
ReplyDeletehttp://doublethinkblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/hybrid-cars-wreck-planet-and-hurt.html
I hope you enjoy destroying the Earth, because you'll be doin' a lot of it.
Wow.
ReplyDeleteAny essay beginning with a snide reference to Al Gore, et al, is quickly filed away in my "axe to grind/Fox News" box. It is the height of fashion these days to Question the Assumptions of Society, which then allows one to insert his/her favorite conspiracy theory (usually with brute force political grandstanding) and appear to be an independent thinker. It works even better if the Assumption in Question is one that is widely supported by evidence. Joe Shmuck, a Common Man, then points out how it's OBVIOUS that the teams of scientists misinterpreted their data to reflect their hopelessly liberal brainwashing.
Fun! Thanks for the link!
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