Dammitall

In 8th grade shop class—and I'll preface this by saying I detested middle school and had no friends—I was assigned to a group with two other girls to design and build CO2 cartridge-powered wooden cars. I was very excited about the project. To me, working with blocks of wood to create cars that would zip across the floor seemed like fun. The rest of my group wasn't into it at all.

I did pretty much all the work up until the day the cars were going to be painted, the day I'd been looking forward to most of all, when I came down with something and had to stay home sick. I came back the next day to find that the girls in my group had taken out their revenge on me by painting the car lime green and fuchsia, with thick, lumpy stripes and polka dots. I was furious.

I kept the car after the project concluded and sanded away their detestable pink and green paint. I still have plans to spray paint it with the sexy black and silver scheme I had my heart set on those many years ago.

I'm a much better "team player" now than I was back then.

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If one million people replaced a two mile car trip once a week with a bike ride, carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 50,000 tons per year. If one out of ten car commuters switched to a bike, carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 25.4 million tons per year. [2milechallenge.com]