F Minus by Tony Carrillo for April 20, 2022

Funny how that works out.

Best place was an apartment across the street from the company. Lunch at home watching reruns of Perry Mason. Back to work at closing credits. Got transferred to an office 10 miles away. Company gave me a pass for the train and the train had a bike car.

Don’t go there!

He’s doing his part for the environment. He just ‘re-cycles’ to the same old places.

Many of us learned the same thing due to covid, whatever our mode of transportation. Some of us live where riding a bicycle year around is not an option.

Necessity is the mother of invention

No need for an auto parts store or a ten minute oil change.

Funny how that happens. When gas is $10 a gallon, we will have a national epiphany.

We have too many hills and poor public transportation here. Anybody on a bicycle can’t afford a car and is riding to a bar because he has a DWI

This is too true to be funny. Americans are way too dependent upon their motor vehicles and are in fact, addicted to them. They routinely make trips that are entirely unnecessary just for the sake of driving them. If they had to walk or ride a bike, they would eliminate a very large portion of those trips and do a much better job of planning those they did make. I know this for a fact because I ride a bike for the vast majority of my own trips using my car only when absolutely necessary. When I am carrying a sack of groceries, motorists who pass me on the street think I am homeless and/or destitute because they cannot comprehend anyone riding a bike who could be driving a car. This is a very sad commentary on our society and one of the reasons obesity has reached epidemic proportions. Those same people are outraged over the high price of gasoline yet continue to drive their motor vehicles aimlessly. If the American population reduced their driving by even a moderate percentage by eliminating unnecessary trips and/or using other ways to get around, the demand for gas would go down along with prices.

I had to give up driving because of vision, reflex and traffic issues. I tried a bike, but it wasn’t much better than driving because you aren’t supposed to ride it on the sidewalk and the drivers (even on the side streets) can’t be expected to see you and give you right-of-way. I’ve been walking most places and getting rides when distance or weather makes walking very difficult.

Thanks Brandon