Any of you see this video from Buzz Feed? I mean, who doesn’t love Buzz Feed? Where else can you find such pointless but RIDICULOUSLY entertaining articles?
Anyway, this little video intrigued me. Watch it here. Basically, two people who live in LA and are Buzz Feed producers, agree to try to give up their cars for a month. They are to use Lyft and other modes of transportation. At the end of the month, they decide if they want to keep their cars are keep using alternative modes of transportation.
Spoiler alert: both producers decided to give up their cars at the end of the segment. Ok, cool. There are some great reasons to no longer drive. It is good for the environment, it beats sitting in traffic for hours a day, gas is crazy expensive, etc. I get it. But it is also crazy inconvenient.
And never going to happen here. I, meanwhile, am driving a 15 mile per gallon bus, my kids strapped in the back, driving back and forth the mile to and from, well, anywhere actually. Our town is roughly one mile by one mile. How else would we get to where we need to go? Don’t tell me to walk. Please, please, don’t tell me to walk. Walking a mile with three children would take roughly 3 hours. I am already late for everything. We do walk a lot. But only when we don’t have a deadline. There is no bus, no Lyft, no metra.
I briefly tried to talk my husband into buying me an electric golf cart since, if they are street legal, they are an accepted mode of transportation in this tiny city. He told me it doesn’t make sense to spend money to save money. Meh.
My commute takes 3 minutes unless the neighbor’s ducks are on the road, and then it takes 3 minutes, 30 seconds.
What do you drive? How long is your morning commute?