I appreciate your sentiments, but I have to completely disagree with you. Now, I've probably been driving for much longer than you have ... when I was 17, I bought my own car with my own money. That was a 1987 Ford Taurus. You might remember seeing me in it. It looked like a faded turd. The paint on top was practically gone, eaten away by the sun. All of those models seem to have that same paint problem. Anyway, when I was 18, I bought my second car, a 1993 Nissan Sentra. I was driving around in that for about four months before I wrecked it. Ironically, I wasn't drunk, but I crashed it into a liquor store. I've been driving my 1999 Camaro ever since 2001. Well, I've been driving for at least six years. About a year and a half ago, I got sick of it. I decided to quit driving for the most part. I was fed up with traffic, bad drivers, gas prices, but most of all, the fact that I had accustomed myself to operating a big machine. I didn't like that, the monotony of getting into an automobile and wasting your concentration on driving. I mean, you don't notice it, because you're used to it, but well, when you write as much as I do, you tend to notice it in your work, that your concentration is being taxed in some obscure way. So, for about a year, I've been taking the bus as a first priority. I still have my car, and I tend to use it on nights and weekends, but I prefer the bus during the day, because I can read while others worry about the driving. It has taught me patience, to manage my time better, and to be less vain about driving a flashy car. I feel closer to the citizenry, poor people, the homeless, the proletariat, people who can't afford to drive, so that when I do drive, I'm less stressed about it, because I feel that it's an honor, a privilege, which is how people SHOULD feel about it. On the other hand, people consider it a necessity. It's not. I've met very interesting people on the MTA that I would never have met in the cramped bubble of my car. When I'm driving and the music's on, I might as well be dead to the rest of humanity. I'd rather stay connected. Of course, Los Angeles has a poor public transportation system, but it's the people's fault; they don't use it. In New York, it's the most viable option.
So, as regards constipation, I feel very much the opposite.
So, as regards constipation, I feel very much the opposite.
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