Ned Pepper's Outrages

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Shock and Awe Meets the Three R's

Mrs Ned came back from her local Starbucks with the following report. Seems she took her paper cup back to reuse it, and it provoked this response from some of the store's customers of the female persuasion. 'Oh! You brought back your cup!"
Now, this observation was made apparently in a similar tone to one that someone would use upon seeing Jesus and the Twelve Disciples, or Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, come in, order grande skinny mochas, and then fall into a switchblade fight over whose turn it was to pay. Or if they were to observe a giant ape stick his paw through the front window, grunt an order, and then offer to pay for it with a Discover Card.
Americans profess to be amazed that someone would actually bring their own cup to a coffee shop, not to mention a paper one they have already used at least once, and then have the consummate daring to brave cancer, plague and dengue fever by reusing a cup.
Ned reckons they are either narcissists of the highest order, or in serious need of sensitization to some basic rules of sustainability: to reuse something is best, far better than 'recycling' which in most cases simply puts off the day when the resource will be discarded and wasted.
Ned wishes his many friends a good day.

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