Commuting - Driving

I've been afforded the luxury of the option to drive to work at my leisure.

Today, I drove all the way downtown and parked in a $3.50 spot.

As I was getting ready for bed tonight, I thought, "Let's see...I have clean clothes for work, the time is such-and-such o'clock, and if I drive tomorrow, I'll only need "X" number of hours/minutes sleep...

...No figuring if my bike is ready, biking gear clean to wear, batteries charged, weather report digested. After all, I wasn't going to ride in the rain tomorrow, anyway, so...

And if I take the bus/train, I have to leave even earlier than I do on my bike.

Sheesh! Is this the lazy life all drivers live with everyday?

(What about the calories? Where will they all go???!!! :confused: )

;)

You just wait until you have a bad day and have no stress release on the way home. That's when you'll really miss the bike.

or till the car starts playing up in traffic or making expensive noises!

Originally posted by chewa
or till the car starts ... making expensive noises!

Do they make any other kind of noise?

Originally posted by Pete Clark

(What about the calories? Where will they all go???!!! :confused: )

;)

They don't go anywhere. They're stored up for later.

Originally posted by Pete Clark

...No figuring if my bike is ready, biking gear clean to wear, batteries charged, weather report digested. After all, I wasn't going to ride in the rain tomorrow, anyway, so...

;)

Oh, the joys of commuting!! :D

Originally posted by Pete Clark
I've been afforded the luxury of the option to drive to work at my leisure.


This is clearly some plan to stop you making them all feel bad about themselves for not cycling. Don't fall for it! It's a slippery slope... :eek:

Ellie

I don't have a choice Pete. My car sits in my driveway with a flat tire and a dead battery from the lack of use. Besides I cancelled my insurance last year. Luckily I live so close to work. If I had to walk to work, I could get there in 24 minutes.

Originally posted by Chris L
You just wait until you have a bad day and have no stress release on the way home. That's when you'll really miss the bike.
How would you know?

;)

Originally posted by chewa
or till the car starts playing up in traffic or making expensive noises!
Mine doesn't make expensive noises, just a "drip, drip" of tranny
fluid on my foot!

That's a slipping danger when walking, no?

Originally posted by Allister


Do they make any other kind of noise?

'Swat I'm talkin' 'bout...

Originally posted by Allister


They don't go anywhere. They're stored up for later.
Later...when is that, actually?

Originally posted by Weasel


Oh, the joys of commuting!! :D
Oh, yeah...

Originally posted by Ellie


This is clearly some plan to stop you making them all feel bad about themselves for not cycling. Don't fall for it! It's a slippery slope... :eek:

Ellie

L.E., you're wise beyond your years...

Originally posted by A F Baker
I don't have a choice Pete. My car sits in my driveway with a flat tire and a dead battery from the lack of use.
Like I said, "drip, drip, drip."


Besides I cancelled my insurance last year. Luckily I live so close to work. If I had to walk to work, I could get there in 24 minutes.
:eek:

Man, I would walk sometimes...

:D

(24 minutes is almost perfect for walkin'.)

Mine doesn't make expensive noises, just a "drip, drip" of tranny
fluid on my foot! For that to happen, you've either got some really big feet and one heck of a transmission leak. ;)

PH
:D

You know, if you start motoring regularly, one of these days you're going to LOOK THE WRONG WAY at one of these BIKE FORUMS types, and then's when you will regret the day you ever put your foot on a gas pedal! :p

Even if I walk at a fast rate to work I barely break a sweat. Sometimes I'll be sweating when I arrive at work if while cycling I've raced an 18-wheeler from the stop light down the hill to the entrance of my office building; if I take it easy getting to work I have nothing to worry about.

I think I'd be discouraged sometimes if I lived 14 miles from work.

Well, now my older car ("mine," according to wife) resembles an alley cat more and more. Driver side window frozen shut, passenger door opens from outside only (useful for giving hitchhikers a scare :eek: ,) lovely fuel aroma and "drip, drip, drip."

Hey, looks like you've got the Chrysler Feeling !