Friday afternoon. People tired after a week at work are trying to finally get back home and enjoy the week end, go party, spend time with their children, meet friends...
... but a bunch of intolerant idiots filled with good intentions and convinced of the absolute goodness of their ideas decided to block the road with their bicicles!
Every friday afternoon! Right in the center of Geneva!
I'm sensitive to the ecological debate, but after seeing those dorks invading other people's lives again and again ...
Despite having a big family we decided to only have one car, I have the full TPG pass (for several years already), and I'd use the car much less if only I could let it parked (no parking for residents around here. Sorry!).
Only: it is an SUV (not a sports one: a family one with a normal -not huge- engine) and some jerk thought they would raise simpathy for the debate against SUV by scratching the paint of parked SUVs and signing the good deed with a sticker supporting the prohibition of SUVs.
Result:
- I had the paint redone on the insurance, with the consequent useless pollution,
- I wrote a furious letter to Greenpeace (at the origin of the campaign of the sticker) and stopped supporting them
- I'm much less enthusiast when I'm asked to support green initiatives.
Now those well intentioned idiots on their bikes are blocking the road obliging a lot of people in traffic, Including the ones like me who took the bus, and those who would love to, if only it was an alternative for them (for many people living in the region, it simply isn't).
The result, I'm afraid, will be to alienate the sympathy of a lot of people who would otherwise support much more willingly these important and just battles.
They certainly obtained it with me!
Good ideas cannot be imposed. If they needed it, probably they were not that good!