This is an “I’m bored” post. I have nothing to do, so I’m posting this.
Last night our doorbell rang. I went to the door and peaked out, unseen by the visitor. It was a guy with long, almost rastafarian type hair and a clipboard. An Environmental Activist!! Many times I’ll just ignore visitors if I don’t know who they are. This would be a fun one though.
He was trying to get people to sign his petition to get congress to retain strict laws for coal burning power plants. He claimed that they are already belching out high levels of mercury and would soon be allowed to belch out seven times more.
I declined to sign it, saying that while I agree that they should pollute as little as possible, I don’t see that as a Constitutionally allowable restriction that the government should be involved in.
He was a little bothered at first, but respected my views, and we actually had a decent conversation. I wished he had stuck around for a few more minutes though. I was going to say that since he rang my doorbell to talk about something that is important to him, I’d like to take a few minutes to share something important to me, and give him a gospel message.
Before I had a chance, he wanted to go, saying he had a lot of doors left to knock on. He had no clue of my intentions.
Oh well, maybe next time.