Eleven fantastic things about not having your own car!!! (7, 10 through 12, and 14 suck)
Okay, I admit it, I'm suffering from lack-of-car envy. Sure, I own about 22% of a green 2000 Honda CRV, (that's almost a whole tire!), but I never had strong ambitions to sport around town in my very own mini-SUV, or worse, minivan! So to cheer myself up I thought of as many good things as possible about not having one's own car:
1. Don't have to pay for gas (saving approximately $37.85 every 250 miles!).
2. Don't have to pay for auto insurance.
3. Don't have to worry about getting into an accident, and therefore...
4. Don't have to worry about killing yourself in a crash...
5. Don't have to worry about killing someone else in a crash...
6. Don't have to worry about winding up in jail for the rest of your life after killing someone else in an accident.
7. Don't have to worry about ending up in a persistent vegetative state after getting into an accident without having written your will indicating whether of not you'd like to be kept on life support.
Wow! Check out all the morbidity I'm avoiding! I should not have a car more often!
8. Never have to pay for repairs or maintenance.
9. Don't have to worry about your car getting stolen, keyed, dented, pooped on by a bird, or suffering any kind of damage or abuse in general.
9 1/2. Never have to worry about your car getting repossessed if you go into debt.
10. Never have to pay parking tickets.
11. Never have to risk getting your picture taken at one of those annoying cameras that are supposed to photograph the faces and license plates of people that run red lights but usually photograph the person behind the them instead so that an innocent, law-abiding citizen gets slapped with a traffic ticket in the mail blah, blah, blah... (I don't know anyone who's actually had that happen to them, do you?)
12. Never have to worry about your car being broken into so someone can steal the comprehensive collection of Celine Dion CDs you worked so hard to accrue. Just kidding! They'd actually be doing you a favor if they did that.
13. Um, I can't think of a thirteenth thing...
14. Never have to worry about your brakes failing while you're driving. (Yeah, I'm running out of ideas.)
15. Never have to worry about getting into your car in the basement of a deserted parking lot late at night and finding someone sitting in the back seat holding a gun to your head. (I sold my first car and didn't get another one after the fourth time that happened to me within six weeks.)
16. Never have to be almost to the door of the grocery store when you wonder if you locked your doors.
Okay, I'm done. Lemme know if you think of any more.
1. Don't have to pay for gas (saving approximately $37.85 every 250 miles!).
2. Don't have to pay for auto insurance.
3. Don't have to worry about getting into an accident, and therefore...
4. Don't have to worry about killing yourself in a crash...
5. Don't have to worry about killing someone else in a crash...
6. Don't have to worry about winding up in jail for the rest of your life after killing someone else in an accident.
7. Don't have to worry about ending up in a persistent vegetative state after getting into an accident without having written your will indicating whether of not you'd like to be kept on life support.
Wow! Check out all the morbidity I'm avoiding! I should not have a car more often!
8. Never have to pay for repairs or maintenance.
9. Don't have to worry about your car getting stolen, keyed, dented, pooped on by a bird, or suffering any kind of damage or abuse in general.
9 1/2. Never have to worry about your car getting repossessed if you go into debt.
10. Never have to pay parking tickets.
11. Never have to risk getting your picture taken at one of those annoying cameras that are supposed to photograph the faces and license plates of people that run red lights but usually photograph the person behind the them instead so that an innocent, law-abiding citizen gets slapped with a traffic ticket in the mail blah, blah, blah... (I don't know anyone who's actually had that happen to them, do you?)
12. Never have to worry about your car being broken into so someone can steal the comprehensive collection of Celine Dion CDs you worked so hard to accrue. Just kidding! They'd actually be doing you a favor if they did that.
13. Um, I can't think of a thirteenth thing...
14. Never have to worry about your brakes failing while you're driving. (Yeah, I'm running out of ideas.)
15. Never have to worry about getting into your car in the basement of a deserted parking lot late at night and finding someone sitting in the back seat holding a gun to your head. (I sold my first car and didn't get another one after the fourth time that happened to me within six weeks.)
16. Never have to be almost to the door of the grocery store when you wonder if you locked your doors.
Okay, I'm done. Lemme know if you think of any more.