Homeless Polar Bears

Last night while out driving with the family, a car turned in front of us that was spewing something out of its tailpipe (I assume) so badly it reduced visibility on the street we were to literally zero. We could not see anything. We had to pull over for a few minutes to let it dissipate enough to see. Fortunately that car soon turned a corner and was gone (not that we ever really saw it).

Adding to the haze is one of our famous wintertime inversions. Having studied meteorology (albeit briefly), I could tell you why this happens and how it happens, but let's just say it makes for hazy, foggy days and nights. So when this incident with the car happened, Robyn remarked that it was just adding to the pollution haze from the inversion. A minute or so later Haley pipes up from the back seat and says, "Dad, we don't want pollution."

"That's right," I responded. "But why?"

She replied, "Because it melts the ice. You know, for the polar bears?"

We got a good kick out of that. The brainwashing has begun. Ya gotta love the public school system.