Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Things I Actually Like About $4.00 a Gallon

1.  It gives me a good excuse not to drive to Holland for "voluntary" work events.

2.  It makes my husband think twice about driving all over creation for volleyball.

3.  It gives me permission to ask people to meet me half way instead of feeling like I have to do all the driving myself.

4.  It makes me do the environmentally responsible behaviors I should have been doing for years, things like drive slower and consolidate my errands.  I'm not a big fan of either of those things, so I need the motivation of pump pain.

5.  It makes me look for places to ride my bike, and I love riding my bike!  I love how it feels.  I love that sense of accomplishment as I try longer and longer rides.  I love that I get exercise at the same time.  I love that I see all kinds of things that I never noticed from my car.  I love the good excuse to stop and get ice cream more often!

It's only five reasons, but it keeps me going in troubled times :-)

1 comment:

Christi said...

I like how people have mostly stopped buying SUV's. I always said the only thing that would start getting those things off the road would be the economics of keeping them on.