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Apr. 28th, 2006 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fabrisseI don't understand Southern Californians.
Gasoline is well over $3.00 a gallon. It's going up. And people are saying that they will quit their jobs rather than take the bus.
Seriously. In my office, I overheard that conversation.
My jaw has dropped past my knees.
I've been trying to find a viable way to make it to my office by public transportation for months. (In a weird moment of synchronicity, I actually discovered the correct way to accomplish this. It will take over 2 hours to make it to work. I have issues with getting up early, but 45.00 per week for gas will help me overcome them.) Somehow, it makes me less than human not to want to drive 32 miles a day.
Part of that overheard conversation included the line, "I wouldn't feel like a person if I had to take the bus."
*whimper*
Gasoline is well over $3.00 a gallon. It's going up. And people are saying that they will quit their jobs rather than take the bus.
Seriously. In my office, I overheard that conversation.
My jaw has dropped past my knees.
I've been trying to find a viable way to make it to my office by public transportation for months. (In a weird moment of synchronicity, I actually discovered the correct way to accomplish this. It will take over 2 hours to make it to work. I have issues with getting up early, but 45.00 per week for gas will help me overcome them.) Somehow, it makes me less than human not to want to drive 32 miles a day.
Part of that overheard conversation included the line, "I wouldn't feel like a person if I had to take the bus."
*whimper*
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Date: 2006-04-29 02:44 pm (UTC)It was driving me to distraction for a while, but I found a solution: Books on CD. My mom, while a big fantasy fan in her youth, doesn't have much time for pleasure reading these days; so when the LotR movies came out, she got the books on CD so she could recapture the memories after watching the movies. So I used those at first, and, when my finances or gifts allowed, I bought Terry Pratchett CDs.
Then I got her hooked on those. :D Poor grad student's income vs. well paid LAUSD official's; suddenly it became a LOT easier to get stuff for the trip. And, well, when time came around for the multihour trips out to the dig site at 29 palms, I had enough saved to buy the cube o' CDs that is the Books-on-CDs version of the Silmarillion, read by Martin Shaw. If you have the chance and like Tolkein (and can spare the cash), I _highly_ recommend it; he has the kind of deep, rich voice that really meshes well with the gravitas and style of the book.