condor ferries: let’s all breathe thick exhaust fumes
Today is sunny, so it’s hot in people’s cars. Checkin, for the voyage Condor yesterday brought forward by two hours, was supposed to have closed 20 minutes ago, but there is a big vehicle queue for checkin, and I'm still in it. What’s the best way for everyone to deal with this? (a) switch engines off when stationary; get out of vehicle and wait; or (b) everyone run their engines, most of them diesel, including the motor home guys, so that they can breathe nice air-conditioned air thick with exhaust fumes In some ways it’s a typical tragedy-of-the-commons situation, but with immediate, and obvious consequences. You can feel how unhealthy it is when you breathe it in. And it has an obvious and easy solution. Humans, eh. Then I spotted two cyclists. In the same lane as the motor vehicles with all their engines running. I spoke to them, and found out they had come from Poole. Going to St Malo. Not stopping off to see Guernsey, just had to disembark to change boat. I said people...