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Ok, so I try not to drive to work too often anyway. There is no reason for one guy to be using all this gas to himself, I can still listen to music on the bus with headphones, and DAMN parking is expensive! It's just not a great idea from the get-go.

That said... sometimes it's a necessity. If I miss that 08:45 bus (which I take because the 08:15 one is "too early"), I'm boned. It's cab or car time, and the car is a lot cheaper - and more fun - than a cab.

And then winter arrived. Oh, it held off as long as it could, but in the end there was just no holding it back. Now it's 18 below and there's snow everywhere. And the car won't start. And even if I can get the car started, there is window scraping to do, snow to brush off, parking is more sparse, and the drive takes twice as long as Transit. Oh, and there is a hefty chance I will die during the journey.

So yeah, screw this driving business, at least for daily commutes, and at least until the Spring.

Meanwhile I need to find a narrow window of sunlight during which to install my new windshield wipers and figure out where to pour my -49 degree de-icing windshield fluid.