So I think I've gotten to the point where people "pitying" me for something or thinking I'm insane for something is getting old.
I don't have a car. Or a license. So I ride my bike to work - 5 miles one way. Everyday. Rain or shine. Wind or snow. This morning it was 8 degrees (F) outside when I left for work and when I got out; yes, I understand that isn't a whole lot of degrees.
I walk to the bus stop to get to the city when I want to go to the mall or the market strip. In that same 8 degree (F) weather if need be.
I understand its odd; but I'm a bit confused as why people who've repeatedly been told/know that I don't own a car find it odd that I prefer a short bit of being cold to being unemployed.
Whats worse is I know not having a car hurts me in other ways. Not having a car in America is a relationship non-starter; like somehow people are incapable of having a social life because they don't own a four-wheeled vehicle (My like of anime, video games and things that already had that covered but not owning a car just adds to that).
I find it kind of funny that we have this big goal of cutting emissions and getting people off the road; but when someone takes it to the natural extension people think he is crazy.
I don't have a car. Or a license. So I ride my bike to work - 5 miles one way. Everyday. Rain or shine. Wind or snow. This morning it was 8 degrees (F) outside when I left for work and when I got out; yes, I understand that isn't a whole lot of degrees.
I walk to the bus stop to get to the city when I want to go to the mall or the market strip. In that same 8 degree (F) weather if need be.
I understand its odd; but I'm a bit confused as why people who've repeatedly been told/know that I don't own a car find it odd that I prefer a short bit of being cold to being unemployed.
Whats worse is I know not having a car hurts me in other ways. Not having a car in America is a relationship non-starter; like somehow people are incapable of having a social life because they don't own a four-wheeled vehicle (My like of anime, video games and things that already had that covered but not owning a car just adds to that).
I find it kind of funny that we have this big goal of cutting emissions and getting people off the road; but when someone takes it to the natural extension people think he is crazy.