I cannot wait for a city with public transportation! Even with all its faults, it is better than driving. Case in point: My Past week as a driver.
Monday, July 17, 2006: I was pulling out of a parking space, and a car, that had passed me, backed into me. Confused? Clarification: While backing out of a parking space, I was rear-ended/ side-swiped.
Friday, July 21, 2006: Took a 3/4 of a day off of work to attend to the car. Included: Tire rotation and purchase of two new tires, an unplanned purchase. A trip to the Dealer for an air conditioner fix, Just two weeks they had "fixed it" the first time. They got it working, but not to my satisfaction, I would have to come back for a third time in two and a half weeks.
(The man who helped me looked exasperated when I was through with him. I was not happy, as I was hot, because in the hottest week of the year, my air wasn't working, and I was missing out on $8/hour every time I had to see these people again.)
Continued on to Price's collision center. A quality experience filled with charming mechanics.
Saturday, July 22, 2006: First day of vacation. Lovely trip down to Brunswick, Georgia. All was going so well until my cousin rear-ended me, compressing everything, to a foot behind the back window, but everything is still drivable. My cousin was driving her mothers new Chevy Equinox. The entire front end came off. Everything is cheap and plastic. Ecclesiasties is making a lot more sense nowadays.
I hope you now see my disdain for private transportation as it is expensive and time consuming.
