Portland and Butterflies
A convo with my friend slickslack:
slickslack: so friday, i met up with a friend of mine from theinternet.
after eating some mexican food, we went to laurelhurst park, and then he wanted coffee, so we rode around and found some cafe.
many cafes make me uncomfortable with their ... snottiness, what with "grande" and secret lingo and blah blahb lah.
so i was telling him that, and then he decided to get his coffee to go, because i don't like cafes, and he was being considerate. at the same time, though, i thought we were going to sit there and drink there.
SO IN THE END, we decide to sit outside. I'M SO GLAD WE DID.
while we're out there, this 50someting year old guy comes by with his backpack, and he picks up this ring from the neck of a soda bottle, and takes it with him, and my friend asks:
what's that you just picked up?
the man tells him. then my friend (eric) says: i see you guys walking around sometimes, hauling around huge bags of different recyclables. what do you do with them?
the guy says you can't recycle certain things at the curbside, and that he takes them to a recycling center.
eric asks: is there any monetary incentive?
the guy says no, and that he does it for the earth, 'cause where are we gonna go after this?
then the guy goes on this spiel about these butterflies in mexico, and how (i think) their population is dwindling, and they only reproduce in mexico, and there's not enough oxygen for them to reproduce like they used to or something?
...and he tells us how earlier that day, he was on the bus, and picked up two empty soda cans because that adds up to x number of grams, and the oxygen it takes the bus to pull around those grams could be saved for the butterflies!
then he starts about those liceense plate frames, and how they're just advetisements and they're completely useless, and they're just extra weight for a car to pull around.
meanwhile this other guy is walking into the cafe, and he's like HEY YEAH, THIS GUY'S MY BUDDY. WE MET BECAUSE I FOUND HIM BEHIND MY CAR WITH A SCREWDRIVER REMOVING MY LICENSE PLATE, AND I WAS LIKE "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?"
WE'VE BEEN GOOD FRIENDS EVER SINCE.
eric has a bike helmet with him, and the guy asks to see the bike helmet, turns it upside down and shows us all these stickers inside.
he says eric should remove all those stickers, 'cause the combination of them adds up to over a gram, and if he didn't have to pull that weight around, he'd use less oxygen!
then that could be used for the butterflies!
eric asks: if you really want to save the earth, why don't you just walk everywhere? why were you riding the bus today, why bike?
...and the guy says: well, i don't wanna be EXTREME.
slickslack: so friday, i met up with a friend of mine from theinternet.
after eating some mexican food, we went to laurelhurst park, and then he wanted coffee, so we rode around and found some cafe.
many cafes make me uncomfortable with their ... snottiness, what with "grande" and secret lingo and blah blahb lah.
so i was telling him that, and then he decided to get his coffee to go, because i don't like cafes, and he was being considerate. at the same time, though, i thought we were going to sit there and drink there.
SO IN THE END, we decide to sit outside. I'M SO GLAD WE DID.
while we're out there, this 50someting year old guy comes by with his backpack, and he picks up this ring from the neck of a soda bottle, and takes it with him, and my friend asks:
what's that you just picked up?
the man tells him. then my friend (eric) says: i see you guys walking around sometimes, hauling around huge bags of different recyclables. what do you do with them?
the guy says you can't recycle certain things at the curbside, and that he takes them to a recycling center.
eric asks: is there any monetary incentive?
the guy says no, and that he does it for the earth, 'cause where are we gonna go after this?
then the guy goes on this spiel about these butterflies in mexico, and how (i think) their population is dwindling, and they only reproduce in mexico, and there's not enough oxygen for them to reproduce like they used to or something?
...and he tells us how earlier that day, he was on the bus, and picked up two empty soda cans because that adds up to x number of grams, and the oxygen it takes the bus to pull around those grams could be saved for the butterflies!
then he starts about those liceense plate frames, and how they're just advetisements and they're completely useless, and they're just extra weight for a car to pull around.
meanwhile this other guy is walking into the cafe, and he's like HEY YEAH, THIS GUY'S MY BUDDY. WE MET BECAUSE I FOUND HIM BEHIND MY CAR WITH A SCREWDRIVER REMOVING MY LICENSE PLATE, AND I WAS LIKE "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?"
WE'VE BEEN GOOD FRIENDS EVER SINCE.
eric has a bike helmet with him, and the guy asks to see the bike helmet, turns it upside down and shows us all these stickers inside.
he says eric should remove all those stickers, 'cause the combination of them adds up to over a gram, and if he didn't have to pull that weight around, he'd use less oxygen!
then that could be used for the butterflies!
eric asks: if you really want to save the earth, why don't you just walk everywhere? why were you riding the bus today, why bike?
...and the guy says: well, i don't wanna be EXTREME.