Bussing it
I’ve been taking the bus to and from school/work for about 4 months now, and I have to say that overall I love it.
Pros:
- Time to read every day (this is huge!)
- Less money spent on gas/car things
- No parking garage/rush hour stress
- I’m always on time now (because the bus won’t sit across the street and wait for me!)
- Good for the environment
- Feeling smug when I tell people I take the bus
Cons:
- Adds a fair amount of commute time
- My bus doesn’t run very frequently
- No listening to NPR on the drive (exchanged for reading)
- I drive so little now that I get more nervous when I do have to drive in the rain/dark/rush hour
- I drive so little that at one point my battery went totally and completely dead.
To help offset those last two cons, I’ve been driving more in the evening when C and I go somewhere. C always used to drive, because he enjoys it and I don’t. Now I try to be the one to drive, both to keep my battery running and to keep in the habit of driving, so I don’t become too squeamish about it. But overall, I’m way happier taking the bus than I was driving and dealing with the horrible parking garages.
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