Laziness Museum's new additions
The ideas are coming in for exhibits at the Museum of Laziness.
From one reader:
1) The parents on our street, who drive their kids to our neighborhood elementary school -- which is a block away. Every day, as I'm returning from walking my own kid to school, I see the SUVs and trucks firing up in preparation to take their cargo of kids on that long and sometimes hazardous block-long trek between home and school. In MY day, I always walked the six blocks to school, typically uphill in both directions, in a driving snowstorm, a headwind in my face.
(That reader apparently went to school with my dad).
2) People who drive around a parking lot for up to 15 minutes to find a space close to the door of the local workout gym/health club. I'm not kidding about this. I'll deliberately park far away from from the health club (I figure even the two-minute quick stroll between car and door will burn off an eighth of a calorie, and at my weight, every little bit helps). After I'm done and am limping back to my car in a self-righteous and congratulatory mood for not passing out during the workout, I'm sometimes stalked by two or three other cars in a crowded parking lot, with hopeful drivers at the wheel. When they see how far away I've parked, they give up and begin circling closer again. It's pretty funny.