Alos, I guess this belongs in tech support, but, Suzi, how did you get the made by so and so to appear as a livejournal user name link. I R Dum today.

And while we're at it, does anyone want to tell me how to get puntucation marks when I am test messaging!

Perhaps now people will stop telling me that I am not actually saving money by taking the bus. I pay $56 a month for unlimited rides. I used to pay $80 per month for gas, $ 40 a month for parking, plus maintenance and insurance, plus, you know, a car payment.

I had a phase in the fall where, every time I went out of town people asked me how I do my grocery shopping with no car. The fact that my monthly travel expenses are a flat $76 was very impressive to those people. At least the people I was talking to could do arithmetic!

And while we're at it, does anyone want to tell me how to get puntucation marks when I am test messaging!

Hit 1, and use the arrow keys to scroll through your options. If you have my phone, that's how you do it, anyway.

Perhaps now people will stop telling me that I am not actually saving money by taking the bus. I pay $56 a month for unlimited rides. I used to pay $80 per month for gas, $ 40 a month for parking, plus maintenance and insurance, plus, you know, a car payment.

I'm in the odd position of spending less money on transport now I have a car. And saving two hours a day on my commute. But still, so guilty.

At work, they pay for my monthly mass-transit pass (which they then deduct as an expense, so it's like tax-free income). So my monthly expense for taking trains and buses to work = $0. Plus non-work-related trips are free too!

how did you get the made by so and so to appear as a livejournal user name link. I R Dum today.

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I would consider taking public transportation to work if it wouldn't take me an hour and a half each way.

I had a phase in the fall where, every time I went out of town people asked me how I do my grocery shopping with no car.

It is harder here, out of a big city, but I manage. because most people have a car, there aren't many stores selling food items in walking distance, but I just take my re-usable bags on the bus with me, and if I am getting something heavy, I bring my cart. And people on the bus are usually really nice, or I look weak, because someone usually helps me get my cart up onto the bus. See, no problem....

Also, thank you Suzi!

Dana- Sometimes it wakes me an over an hour to get home, hoever I can get in in 40 minutes. I watch TV show on my iPod, so I actually like having the time and not feeling guilty about watching TV. Sometimes later at night, I don't watch the iPod because there are more "characters" riding the bus, and I am not sure it won't get stolen. Frankly, I think the fact that I kind of look like a bag lady works to my advantage in a city where mostly only poor people or people who have lost their liscense due to DWI ride the bus.

It is harder here, out of a big city, but I manage. because most people have a car, there aren't many stores selling food items in walking distance,

Yeah, I realized that that is part of what people were picturing -- how they drive into a big parking lot in front of a big supermarket, and load up the car and drive away. I walk by a small market on my way home, and get one bag full!

well the idea is that smaller and more localized grocery stores would open up again if gas went up enough. Also cities of all sizes would invest more into public transportation systems.

Also also, smaller farms would start up again.

Unsurprisingly I am all for sustainsable smaller scale neighborhoods/communties/towns/cities where the food production and consumption require much less transportation.