I am car-light. My wife has a car, and I occasionally ask her to drive me places, but I very rarely drive the car myself. I often ask myself if we didn't have the car, how often I would be feeling the need for the car. This thought hit me today since today was one of those days where I bribed my wife to give me a ride - I bought her lunch in exchange for her chauffeuring me to/from a dr. appt. The Dr is 20 mins away by car, but almost 2 hours by public transit, or an hour and a half by bicycle. Since my appointment was in the middle of the day, and I didn't want to take too much time off work, the car seemed like a reasonable alternative. Had I not had access to the car what would I have done? - take a half day off work, rent a car, take a cab?