pet peeve

I stopped by a small taqueria this morning to grab a breakfast burrito on my way to work (an indulgence, but I'm awfully tired of oatmeal at the moment). This taqueria happens to have a drive-through as well, and as I pulled up, parked and started walking to the door, an SUV pulls up to the drive through window to order.

Well, I come out 15 minutes later (they're kind of slow in the morning), and the driver is still sitting there talking to one of the employees with their car still running. Fine, use a drive-through, be lazy and refuse to get out of your car, but do you have to leave the car running, burning gas and increasing pollution for no gorram reason? As a note, it was sunny and the temperature was a little cool, but not cold. No real need for heat or A/C.

And the beautiful mountains to the west of city, which happened to be snow covered this morning, were a pale yellow instead of a sparkling white thanks to the lousy air quality Salt Lake has.

Drive-throughs are evil! They're one of the many little reasons why we have an epidemic of obesity and global warming. Yes, it's a small thing, but all the small things add up!

This is J, the pro-health, pro-environment ranter signing off.