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It's a trick to make you see wide
Apr. 28th, 2023 11:07 pmI've just reached the end of the accidental four week experiment in not using a car. It broke down in North Wales in the rain in the dark and that was definitely experience. It's not entirely 4 weeks as I hired a car and rove back up to North Wales the next day and that was all in all one of the most surreal 24 hour periods of my life. It honestly doesn't help that Google Maps has adopted this new petrol saving mode that means you drive through the arse end of nowhere to shave off a couple of miles.
It really was pretty remote on the way back up. There's something weird about the Bala area.
Then I returned the hire car and made a conscious decision not to deal with car repairs until after the Easter break. And then there was another couple of accidental weeks where I just could not get my brain to do it. And it turns out there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the bloody thing anyway.
Not using a car has been fine. I feel fitter and healthier for it, mentally and physically. I wish that the local bus company were less shit. There are so many vanishing buses. I think they're aiming for a more hop off and change to another line type of thing. It's a bold move.
At least I can do things by bus. And I got a taxi home after my birthday night out. Hurray for the privilege in being able to call a couple of ubers. I had one truly shitty experience getting back from Bath on a Saturday night and I've learned several lessons from that. Like, only use direct routes on a Saturday night because changing will be a disaster. On the fourth connection on the way home, a teenage girl gave a quick hurray for god lecture for god knows what reason and then someone fell down the stairs. That definitely would have been much easier to drive.
I think I've noticed some things about pacing myself better. And also there's a bit of me that really likes driving my car around listening to loud rap music.
It really was pretty remote on the way back up. There's something weird about the Bala area.
Then I returned the hire car and made a conscious decision not to deal with car repairs until after the Easter break. And then there was another couple of accidental weeks where I just could not get my brain to do it. And it turns out there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the bloody thing anyway.
Not using a car has been fine. I feel fitter and healthier for it, mentally and physically. I wish that the local bus company were less shit. There are so many vanishing buses. I think they're aiming for a more hop off and change to another line type of thing. It's a bold move.
At least I can do things by bus. And I got a taxi home after my birthday night out. Hurray for the privilege in being able to call a couple of ubers. I had one truly shitty experience getting back from Bath on a Saturday night and I've learned several lessons from that. Like, only use direct routes on a Saturday night because changing will be a disaster. On the fourth connection on the way home, a teenage girl gave a quick hurray for god lecture for god knows what reason and then someone fell down the stairs. That definitely would have been much easier to drive.
I think I've noticed some things about pacing myself better. And also there's a bit of me that really likes driving my car around listening to loud rap music.
