Tip No. 5

[superbadgirl]

Tip No. 5 Is Don't Drive Your Car

Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one in the nation who gave up driving when gas breached the $2.00 gallon mark and stayed there. I realize it's impractical for those who don't dwell in a city or have access to decent public transportation. And I know they kind of suggested not driving in the article.

My boss at Job 2 drives 2 blocks to Safeway because he's too lazy to simply walk. That is criminal.

Comments

[betacandy.livejournal.com]

I do drive - getting to jobsites in a timely fashion wouldn't be possible on the bus - but I do every errand I possibly can on foot. I love it. I did it even when gas was cheaper. I chose the neighborhood I'm in because I'm in walking distance of grocery stores, video stores, drug stores, restaurants. There's a drugstore that's a good mile away, and I'll still walk to it unless I need something really fast.

Where I work, the suite is two stories, and the elevator is far away. I'm upstairs, so I go up and down this long staircase every day, as many as 20 times on a crazy day. There are athletic people in the office who bitch and whine about coming up the stairs, and anytime they see one of us, they just hand us paperwork and say, "Could you take this up with you when you go back up? Thankssomuchbye" with no regard for what we might have planned to do downstairs first. We get so irritated with them.