Reserving hybrid spaces close to restaurants does prevent pollution, because the point of the car’s origin isn’t the restaurant, it’s your house. Say you’re driving a traditional vehicle and leave your house and drive to a restaurant. You pull into the parking lot and have to park immediately because the spots closer to the restaurant are for hybrids. You stop your car and walk 5 parking rows to the restaurant. If the traditional spaces were closer to the restaurant, you would have driven those 5 rows instead of walking.

Now this scenario assumes a strip-mall parking environment, and in real life the difference is probably only a couple of yards instead of 5 rows, but still. The take-away lesson is we should walk more, use shared/centralized parking, and worry less about reserving spaces for hybrids.

i got vanilla with blueberries and at the urging of the man in the stand, the homemade blueberry syrup! i was skeptical about the syrup since my experience with fruit syrups is mostly based on store-bought strawberry syrup which tastes like cough medicine but boy-o was that syrup amazing. since i wanted a cone, he made a little well inside the ice cream for the blueberries and syrup and even covered it up with a little extra dollop of ice cream. it was great!

unfortunately my ice cream partner requested chocolate and caramel syrup and the same well technology didn’t work so…well. in short, the sides of the well were not structurally sound enough to contain a chocolate/caramel magma center and when a leak was sprung, there was no going back. he ended up with hands covered in caramel and chocolate.

but we’re going to go back sometime soon and think more carefully about our toppings! btw, i was surprised at how many people stopped by. by the time we were leaving, a line of around ten people had formed! so uh good job carpe durham

breakfast is my next aim