So,  I’m blogging again. This is more or less a rant…two of them actually.  I’m kind of hung up with which one I will write about first because they both REALLY annoy me a lot.

OK, here goes. Last night when I was arriving home from work, it was blazing hot. The temperature in my car said it was 36 degrees (a bit of an exaggeration) and the official temperature at the Ptbo airport was 31. In addition to the hot temperatures, the late afternoon sun was beating down. The time was around 4:45.

I pulled onto my north end street to see a gentlemen standing on his driveway proudly watching his LAWN SPRINKLER watering the lawn. Yes, that’s right, watering the lawn.  Two or three houses down, someone else was doing the same thing. It completely blows my mind.

Watering during the hot afternoon is serving absolutely no purpose! Very little of it actually reaches the root level of the grass because it evaporates away as quickly as it reaches the ground.  Save your watering until the evening after the sun has lowered in the sky! Watering the driveway, street and sidewalk also is pointless– not much grows in those areas.

Now  to pet peeve #2. I was driving two work Wednesday morning and was coming down Chemong Road as usual. The right lane by the strip mall on Chemong seemed to be backed up for no apparent reason, as traffic below the mall entrance was flowing normally. As I changed lanes it became quite apparent why traffic wasn’t moving. There was a line up for the Tim Horton’s drive-thru! Why do people think they have the absolute right to BLOCK a FULL LANE OF TRAFFIC so they can wait in line at a drive thru? Not only are they creating a safety issue, but also spewing endless amounts of exhaust into our atmosphere. Air Quality was already strained that day, and drive thrus like this were only making it worse.

So how can we solve this problem? Park your car, take your coffee cup into the restaurant, get it filled and pay inside. Without a doubt, by the time you get out and into your car the drive thru line won’t have moved too much.

What do you think? Post a comment!