Fresh Clean Laundry blowing in the Breeze
When you tell me that you are concerned about protecting the environment, when you tell me you are passionate about conservation, when you tell me you are worried about Global Warming, I cannot take you seriously until you answer one simple question.
It is such a simple question it does not even require much thought - it might take a few seconds worth of thinking at best: "is your clothesline wire or rope?"
As with the traditional "paper or plastic?" question at the grocery store, the answer itself really does not make the difference, it is the response to the question that matters. Those who sneer at the bourgeois idea of "hanging out their laundry like a redneck hillbilly" - why yes, I did get that very response more than once - they are missing out on a great way to save energy. The very same fossil-fuel-energy they claim they are committed to conserving.
Maybe I ought to call my clothesline a solar-powered dryer? Or I could always promote it as using "wind powered energy" instead...
But I won't bother, for when I use my clothesline I am fully willing to embrace that title of redneck hillbilly. Cheap. Thrifty. Frugal. Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do or do without.
Just do not preach to me about your "deep concern" for the planet, for I am not buying it at all.
It is such a simple question it does not even require much thought - it might take a few seconds worth of thinking at best: "is your clothesline wire or rope?"
As with the traditional "paper or plastic?" question at the grocery store, the answer itself really does not make the difference, it is the response to the question that matters. Those who sneer at the bourgeois idea of "hanging out their laundry like a redneck hillbilly" - why yes, I did get that very response more than once - they are missing out on a great way to save energy. The very same fossil-fuel-energy they claim they are committed to conserving.
Maybe I ought to call my clothesline a solar-powered dryer? Or I could always promote it as using "wind powered energy" instead...
But I won't bother, for when I use my clothesline I am fully willing to embrace that title of redneck hillbilly. Cheap. Thrifty. Frugal. Use it up. Wear it out. Make it do or do without.
Just do not preach to me about your "deep concern" for the planet, for I am not buying it at all.