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I've always thought it rather arrogant when people insist on pre-warming their vehicles before they get into them. I can understand when you have small children, perhaps warming up the car for a bit, since they're strapped into car seats barely able to scratch an itch. But for a healthy adult to warm their car for a good five to ten minutes before getting into it, well it's a blatant waste of energy.

There's a woman at work who insists on doing this with her SUV. I'd be walking out to my car, and always notice this empty, locked vehicle with the engine running. It pisses me off because not only is she wasting gas, polluting the air but because she's so spoiled that she can't stand being out in the cold for the time to walk all of fifteen feet from the door to her parking spot. Still, there's a little give there because I hate being cold, and it does take the engine a bit to start producing heat so fine, whatever.

The other day it was a balmy and beautiful eighty degrees. Perfect temperature to be outside, nicer even than being in the arctic ice-station of the building. As I walk out the door I'm dumbfounded. The bitch has her car running again! This time to crank the AC. Wtf?!?! Hello? It's perfect outside?

All I can say is Energy-Whore better be going through hot-flashes because there's just no fucking excuse for the fuel she's wasting five days a week.