Irony

Driving home from an appointment with a client, I followed a car with a bumper sticker that read, "Buy Recycled."

Now, when I read something like that, I immediately assume certain characteristics of the owner of the vehicle. I assume she's environmentally conscious, recycles everything possible, maybe has a garden, possibly buys organic, but at a minimum buys local, say at a local farmer's market.

I realize all of these are assumptions. If any are slightly, remotely true, then even I can appreciate the irony of the trash thrown out the passenger window as the occupant chucked it onto the side of the freeway.

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