So, today. A different kind of gray day, the cool, delicate kind, the kind where the clouds seem less like a dour block of the sun but more like atmosphere, like a warm embrace. Leaves starting to to sprout and the green is vibrant against the gray.
Today, people are more friendly. The damp puddles are less frigid and more springlike. As if there could be little sprites in every shrub.
I stopped a guy on the street and I asked him: what do you think of garage doors?
This guy, he smiled at me instantly, not like I was joking or he was just being polite or anything like that, as if he actually liked the question.
"Well. I like green ones," he said.
"Green like the color or green like sustainable?"
"Green like the color and green like better for the environment than the alternative would be," he clarified. "I'm big on insulation, to make sure energy isn't lost in the winter. And in transitory seasons, like this one, when people odn't really think about it but they're still leaking warmth, still wasting."
"Awesome," I said. "What else besides insulation can make a garage door green?"
"Well," he started, and put a finger to his chin in a very purposeful pose of thinking. "Well. You can make them out of sustainable materials. You can use your hands instead of electricity and a motor to open them."
I thanked him for his time.
"Not a problem. I like for people to stop me and ask me things on the street. Who doesn't like talking about themselves and their opinions?"
That's a very wise question, I thought. Maybe that's why I've generally had so much success with asking people about garage doors. People like to think someone's listening to them.
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