By Reilly Capps
I loved my ex-girlfriend but she was always on me for not recycling. I don’t recycle all the time, I think it’s a bit of a sham, since we’re shipping the stuff over to China now, but she was fanatical about it, and would lose her mind any time I trashed the tin foil seal off a toothpaste tube.
We were apparently not alone.
A great story in the New York Times titled “Therapists Report Increase in Green Disputes” chronicles this new phenomenon. And while I believe that men and women will always find something to fight about as long as the world is filled with money, sports, shopping and mothers-in-law, all this green business isn’t going to help anything.
Idea: What about a show like “The Marriage Ref,” but all about green stuff? How mad can she get about my SUV? What about my hunting? Am I allowed, when I’m feeling spiteful, to make a crack about the fact that she doesn’t use biodegradable sanitary napkins?
I think I’m on to something here. Planet Green, I’m awaiting your call.