When not to smoke

Silicon Valley is dry. Seriously dry. Haven’t gotten any real rain since
January dry. So you’d think that people might grasp that now might be the best time to be tossing their cigarette butts out the window. And yet I’ve started to notice suspiciously positioned burnouts from brush fires. There’s one by the Great America parking lot near the trail where I bike in the mornings. And this morning firefighters were putting out a small blaze where 87 exits from 101 as I went by to drop off my daughter at her preschool.

Sometimes it’s a little too obvious that people don’t think.