What's your Uber rating?
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I haven’t used Uber but the bus drivers have been rather cordial.
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Bus drivers here are great.
The transit system not so much.
But it is $5 a day.
Assuming your body doesn't collapse due to old bones or exhaustion when hiking it from Address: 123 Any St. to your next connection (the distance can be impossible and they have a limited contract with Uber to connect certain stops to certain hubs), and don't miss your stop and end up crossing the county line, wondering where you are and how (and if) you can get home safely, using the system in reverse, it's all good.
I love my car (a post on that and pictures of my new home this autumn) but driving is not the same as back when by a very wide margin.
I'm older, slower, blinder, 15 yrs without driving, and the traffic is almost unbelievably fast. Not aggressive. Just drivers driving incredible speeds (illegally of course).
There's also changes to the roadway system that can be seen from space from the last time I lived here, and constant construction.
My father told me a car is to get from point A to point B.
I have to factor in for myself at my age and at this time what you always have to factor in with driving.
You don't get from point A to Point B if you are seriously injured or killed, or worse, if you seriously injure or kill someone else in an accident.
I really don't want to to be the proximate cause of this kind of tragedy. Of course never did never would. And I have to believe the psychological and spiritual trauma would be overwhelming.
I've been told by my NY relatives why didn't I "just take the bus". 3
All of them live in the country.
Well, technically, one lives in a small city.
All of them only have the option of driving.
One doesn't lock the doors.
One also grew up in a house where the house keys were gone and not missed again.
One is veteran and has a guard dog and a pistol.
Now I have veered (sic) down yet another rabbit hole.
I'll stop. * snort *
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Bus drivers here are great.
The transit system not so much.
But it is $5 a day.
Assuming your body doesn't collapse due to old bones or exhaustion when hiking it from Address: 123 Any St. to your next connection (the distance can be impossible and they have a limited contract with Uber to connect certain stops to certain hubs), and don't miss your stop and end up crossing the county line, wondering where you are and how (and if) you can get home safely, using the system in reverse, it's all good.
I love my car (a post on that and pictures of my new home this autumn) but driving is not the same as back when by a very wide margin.
I'm older, slower, blinder, 15 yrs without driving, and the traffic is almost unbelievably fast. Not aggressive. Just drivers driving incredible speeds (illegally of course).
There's also changes to the roadway system that can be seen from space from the last time I lived here, and constant construction.
My father told me a car is to get from point A to point B.
I have to factor in for myself at my age and at this time what you always have to factor in with driving.
You don't get from point A to Point B if you are seriously injured or killed, or worse, if you seriously injure or kill someone else in an accident.
I really don't want to to be the proximate cause of this kind of tragedy. Of course never did never would. And I have to believe the psychological and spiritual trauma would be overwhelming.
I've been told by my NY relatives why didn't I "just take the bus". 3
All of them live in the country.
Well, technically, one lives in a small city.
All of them only have the option of driving.
One doesn't lock the doors.
One also grew up in a house where the house keys were gone and not missed again.
One is veteran and has a guard dog and a pistol.
Now I have veered (sic) down yet another rabbit hole.
I'll stop. * snort *
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