Stranded!!! (sort of)

I have been thrown into a situation that I am unfamiliar with.  Millions of people face this every day but it's fresh to me and I am being forced to quickly learn how to deal with not having a car.  I own two cars, one for myself and one for my wife, Jessica.  When the transmission went out on our Honda (right after the warranty went out, as would be expected) I figured, 'no sweat. One car down, no problem.'  When only two days later the ignition switch went out in my VW I thought, 'this could be a problem.' 

So that puts me down to my bicycle.  Okay, I'm a progressive sort of guy.  I'm all on board the bicycle train.  Pedal power not horse power!  Well... I went to get on my bike to go down to the mechanic's shop and mysteriously the combination lock has somehow gotten reset and my code does not work.  Seriously? Well since that code won't work I start trying a few others of the remaining 1024 possible combinations.  No dice. Probably shouldn't go to Vegas any time soon.

Being a suburbanite, the nearest full blown grocery store is roughly 4 miles away.  Not a tempting stroll there and back with two bags of groceries in 102^ Texas heat.  There's not even a bus that can take me there and I don't even think there's a cab service in this town. The closest thing is a tiny little Hispanic mercado thing that I've as of yet been nervous to visit since I don't speak Spanish.  Time to poni up. This brings me to a social dilemma, that being what I mentioned above.  Millions of people face this every day.  Millions of people walk to the market and bring back food and water and miraculously live to tell the tale. 

Don't get me wrong.  I'm happy for my cars and my bike (when I can get it unlocked) and I'm willing to admit that I would readily drive to that grocery store than walk or even ride the bike but if everyone else can do it then why can't we?  We've all been too happy to drive too far for way too long and now we're paying for it at $4.57 a gallon.  Well, now I have to cope without a car and I believe that when I get them both back I can take a little of what I'm learning this week and apply it to weeks and months and years to come. 

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[Amber Jean]

o i like the page (love the band!)

'bout to have Chinese food!

Fun(ny) in Christ,

Amber Jean