that I'm a little bit nervous to take up driving again when I get home?
I haven't driven a car for almost 4 months now...
But today I missed having one. I needed to get laundry detergent, but the grocery store on the corner didn't have any liquid detergent. (And I would have purchased powder--ick-- but I don't know if it would mess with my landlord's machine, so I didn't dare.) This means that I had to walk 10 minutes in the annoying overcastness that is covering Paris to the other grocery store for a $10 bottle of laundry detergent. (Which, by the way, only costs like $3.50 at home). This wouldn't normally bug me, but I have a cold, so I'm all irritable, sniffly and tired already. Walking all over my chilly neighborhood just so I can come home and do laundry wasn't my idea of a super fun evening.
"Oh, please. Cry me a river, why don't you?" you're thinking. I know. It's not the end of the world. All I'm saying is that it made me miss my car.
I still think I'm going to walk to the grocery store when I get home. Go, grocery chariot, go!
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In February, when I was taking some of the drugs for my headaches, I couldn't drive for three weeks. Even after only that long, it felt really weird to drive again. But, it was just like riding a bike, easy as can be.
Isn't it strange that we think nothing of walking fr blocks in Europe to get places, but at home we drive 5 blocks to church? I wonder if it is just that we have such a tight schedule when we are home. Something is really wrong here.
Queen, that makes me feel a lot better.
And Denise, I agree 100%. All of the walking I do here doesn't phase me at all, and I'm hoping to stay in the habit of walking more once I'm home. (Keeping my fingers crossed.)
Oh, Denise... one more thought I had about your comment on schedules being more tight at home. I think that's true to a certain extent, but here I HAVE to figure on at least 45 minutes to an hour of travel time to get anywhere. So, if I figured the same amount of time into my errands, commute, and outings at home, I think I could manage to walk a lot more (thought I'm not going to lie--public transportation in UT is nowhere near as reliable as it is here, so that would be a factor FOR driving more...)
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