I was debating saying anything on this thread, but dshans created the itch. This will only heighten my aura of being the most difficult guy to relate to here [at least what I'm about to say always has had that effect over the years].
I've never owned a car and really never wanted one. How's THAT for coming from another planet?
Some "accountant type persons" have calculated that this aberration has saved me at a minimum $300,000 so far, and given gasoline price advances etc. probably more like a half million.
Of course that's not why I did it. I actually liked to walk, and to live near work, and to create lecture thoughts as I went into work, and blow all the steam away before I returned back home --- all due to the walking.
I understand that this makes me suspiciously "unAmerican" but what-the-heck: "It's my way or the Highway".
dshans can keep his scooter.