Folks think buses and light rail are all the rage, until they have to sit next to some guy that just peed himself a couple of hours before, stinks to high heavens and hitting on the cutie sitting across the isle.
It’s great to talk about what you do in that situation, until you realize the guy is probably mental and hasn’t the faculties to care if he severely injurs you, her or it is he who goes to the E.R.
Yep, your car and $10 bucks per gallon will start looking quite reasonable after a few of those.
After my divorce, I had to bus it for a while. I saw enough to know that’s not my choice. My ten minute ride to work suddenly became 45 minutes to an hour, if I was lucky enough to catch the transfers, otherwise it could be an hour and a half.
Good times... Blah!
I went broke 4 years ago and have lived without a car in a very large city all this time. To top it off, I’m in very poor health now and can’t work - can barely walk.
Anyway, I rode the bus for two years to get basic things done, like banking and grocery shopping. It was hell. Then I had a run-in with some gangstas and swore “never again.”
So now, still completely destitute, I have to pay $30-$40 just to go by taxi the 6 mile round-trip to my PO Box for royalty checks and to my bank to deposit them - just once a month, obviously. That’s my food budget for a week, as I live on $100-$150 per month over my basics.
I don’t have any answers, that’s for sure. Except I may be the only person in the US *making* money on the oil price increases, not spending more.