Tara ,'Storyteller'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
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.
Just re-ran the numbers. It's the bridge-crossing during commute hours that kills it; we'd have to either pay the huge daily rate three days a week or bring the zipcar back, which during commute hours would probably work out to about an hour and a half round trip, which they'd probably round up to 2 hours. Double that for the days when Hec's both dropping off and picking up/bringing back to SF, and zipping plus bridge tolls would likely cost about $290/m (274 if Hec skims casual carpoolers from the waiting lines at the transbay bus stops in order to cross the bridge for free in the carpool lane), vs. about $300/m that we're paying now. A little less, but probably not enough to be worth it.
You can book the car in half hour increments (at least with Zipcar), any rounding up would be on your onus. So, little more little less.
Liese, you've been married for 16 years??!! WOW.
I was a month shy of twenty-five. But I did rob the cradle a wee bit. He was two months shy of twenty-three.
I still wonder who the hell let us get married. But we're still here and in one piece, so I guess we've muddled through okay.
Ayup. I am an old married lady. Hee.
Tolls in our zipcars are free.
Bah. Each city is different, and in San Francisco it's strictly by the hour and we pay the tolls upfront (actually, it looks like Boston and NY do too; you just have EZ Passes in the cars that run you through without paying the tolls in cash, but at some point they do get charged to your account).
That's too bad - sounds like it might have been a workable solution otherwise.