yesterday I parked beside an SUV. It was very noisy and I noticed a child sitting in the front seat. As I walked towards Anchors seafood shop to buy prawns for dinner I realized the noise was the engine of the SUV still running. The reason it was running was so the air-conditioned could keep the child, sitting in the front seat, cool. Humph. The only other customer in the shop was obviously the SUV driver. I almost opened my big mouth to ask her loudly what she meant by wasting resources keeping her engine running for an air conditioner for Christ sake, and all so her kid doesn’t feel the heat. I wonder if she has seen the price of gas lately, especially since the carbon tax came into effect. Maybe she’s out of touch or maybe she just doesn’t freaking care.
In retrospect it is laughable. This is Northern BC . It is unbearably hot for maybe a week out of the whole long year. I guess if we humans have invented air-conditioning we better use it because there is nothing cooler, in both senses, than driving an air-conditioned SUV even if you only have one kid and live in a city.
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