No, just that it has a designated parking spot you don't have to pay for. No driving around for twenty minutes and then sucking it up and paying or paying for garage space to keep it in. You just drop it off when you're done. Mine is three blocks from my house.

Though meters would be sweet...

A logistics question: how soon before Emmett can take pubtrans by himself?

Probably a year or two away. He starts High School next year.

His schools are actually close to a BART station. However, moving the baseball gear and school backpack and laptop is a bit much for him to be carting back and forth by himself.

And fuel,

Right! Plus bridge tolls. (A not inconsequential part of our regular expenses.)

I forgot to mention, the early shift bartender who worked five days a week plus five nights a week? His alimony is $4,200/month. In Bakersfield! Yikes.

Yikes! Just alimony?? Or is that for child support too?

Yikes! Just alimony?? Or is that for child support too?

Yeah, three kids child support.

It's weird seeing how just the simple cultural move away from ready, shame-free, this-is-okay birth control has affected all these lives. Though some of them just married young and stupid.

Maybe 16 year olds shouldn't drive and you shouldn't be allowed to get married before age 25. Just as a rule of thumb.

Right! Plus bridge tolls. (A not inconsequential part of our regular expenses.)

You'd still have to pay tolls in the Zipcar.

His schools are actually close to a BART station. However, moving the baseball gear and school backpack and laptop is a bit much for him to be carting back and forth by himself.

Feh. It's not always baseball season. (Uphill, both ways, in the snow...)

I'm sure y'all have taken this into consideration, but a rolling backpack really helps a couple of highschoolers I know. One was having back issues from all of the textbooks and the school nurse suggested a rolling backpack. It's really helped.

It's not always baseball season.

February to September for him. Plus the inconveniently placed Krav lessons.

Seriously, though, I don't think we could go carless until Emmett goes to college.

The last time I checked carshare rates (about a year ago) the numbers didn't work. I should definitely re-run them, especially now that Matilda's in preschool at work and we don't have to wrestle with the extra miles to her daycare and the logistics of the car seat.

Oh, Hec and JZ, I hope things get better for y'all soon!

My brother was able to retire with 75% pay at the end of February even though he's only 48 years old, but he's been working part-time since last summer and just got a job as a letter carrier for Philadelphia so he can afford his alimony, child support, and college for his oldest. I don't know what he's paying, but he's living with Mom because he can't afford his own place.

Hee. I got married seven years before 25. But yeah I was most definitely young and stupid. But with birth control, so no kids 16 years later.