WARNING: Serious post.
What the? I know I know. I just had to blab about this for a bit.
First ask yourself if you would choose the environment over your own instant gratification/reward... You probably think you would. After all, you're pretty friendly with the environment, you'd even marry it if you could, right?
You see, this afternoon I grabbed my travel mug and headed to Tim Hortons for a cup of much needed wake-me-up... On the way there I noticed that Roll up the rim to win cups were still being handed out. I'm not a regular Timmy Ho customer, so I have no idea about when these promo things end (for previous rambling post on this topic, see ANTI- Roll-Up-The-Rim-To-Win).
So I put my travel mug in my bag and opted for the paper cup... I CRINGE at using anything disposable, but hey, I wanted a chance to win something!!! As I walked back to my office, not so pleased at my own weakness, I thought...
This is totally the psychology of human behaviour when it comes to our daily choices and the environment... Sure, some of us make small changes that are good for the environment without too much sacrifice. But I wonder what the choice I just made truly says about me, and people in general. People who claim to care about the environment but when it comes down to crunch time, when faced with a simple choice, actually choose the reward or even the small possibility of reward over the environmentally friendly option...
It was just a thought. We all want to do good, but only if we don't think we're sacrificing too much for it. It's a mad generalization, I know.
Have you ever put your travel mug away in order to roll up the rim?
P.S. If you always get a paper cup, well, what is your address? Why? Because I'm gonna come over there right now lay a good whoopin on yer ass, that's why!!!
P.P.S. You see, this is why I must stick to frivolous topics on this blog. Plus it's easier and more instantly gratifying. Hmmm, I'm seeing a pattern here!
P.P.P.S. BTW, the rim said "Please Play Again." Oh geez, I've been hornswoggled AGAIN!
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I'm SO guilty of the roll up the rim to win, and I cringe everytime i do it. ALl those cups and I've only won one coffee and one donut. I want the damned hybrid! In the hostpital, ALL the garbage cans are full of those fucking cups. I am not buying those things anymore and will revert to travel mug mode. Why can't they jsut have little peices of paper and have a huge PR campaign to say how good they are for the environment?
I might start a petition.....
But if you recycle the Horton's cup, is it as bad?
I'm totally guilty of never even remembering to bring my travel mug when I go for coffee (wait, tea now).
I shall strive to do better.
Part of the reason I would even go to THs at all is that the other options on campus pretty much suck... Cram Dunk, well, I'll call that Crap Dunk or Cram Funk, and Java Jive coffee gets old and stinky so I have to spring for espresso drinks there. That's gonna cost me. At THs I can get a huge coffee for just over a buck. So if I must drink it, I bring a mug. Except for the couple of times I play RUTRTW. Ugh.
When Good Earth opens on campus I'm going to bring my travel mug over and fill'er up. Probably on a regular basis... After all, I'm not getting more and more sleep, that's for sure.
be like me and don't drink coffee, then you don't have to worry about the paper cup
I think the blog started out as an intelligent observation----almost; and spiraled off to Timmies. The truth is if you "intelligencia" won't make small sacrifices for the environment, little wonder, given the choice between food on the table and enviromental concerns, food on the table wins every time. Bottom line, don't kill the economy cause hungry people want food even more than you want to gamble with "the rim".
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