#1174 Adapt a Lot

One of the cool things about life is its amazing adaptability. You see it all the time. One moment you have a field, the next you have a big rainstorm and the field turns into a giant pond.
Then here come the geese and ducks. It’s like they were just waiting for a chance to eat all those good insects struggling for air.
Recently I witnessed a similar phenomenon, except it was with people and parking lots. Some folks hate how other folks keep paving the world with parking lots.
Don’t it always seem to go that way?
But the truth is, empty parking lots can be used for a variety of things. And new parking lots are the best. Like this one I saw the other day.
It was dusk. There was no one in the parking lot yet because it was relatively undiscovered. And a young man in a big vehicle was out in the middle of it doing brodies. Taking his vehicle up to high speeds and yanking the steering wheel around so he went into a skid.
The brand new surface of the parking lot was helping him do some serious drifting. He must have burned up a couple hundred bucks worth of tires enjoying himself.
Do smoking tires count as a carbon footprint? I’m pretty sure skidmarks do. Funny, every time I slide on the road like this guy was doing in the parking lot, I get skidmarks too.
But think about the value here. This young man was learning how to pilot his vehicle in adverse driving conditions. I took my son out when it snowed one time and did the same lessons on ice. I did it in an empty parking lot.
Yesterday I saw another good and adaptive use to this new environment. A young woman was teaching her little girl how to ride a bicycle. It looked like one of those “first time without training wheels” experiences. And the new and unobstructed lot was perfect for it. They sure looked like they were having a lot of fun...
Every cloud has a silver lining. And sometimes parking lots can be used for more than just big yellow taxis.
America, ya gotta love it.