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From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Palo Alto & showers (again)
Message-ID: <653@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 12:28:29 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 25 12:28:29 1983
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It's just the spoiled, pampered society we have created.  Since 
becoming a poor college student and living in an city (Boston)
with a semi-reasonable transit system, I don't own a car.  But
I really ENJOY biking to work daily (15-20 minutes).  It's about
the only real exercise I get regularly.  I will probably try to
do it long into the winter after I should have stopped for safety
reasons.  Why?  I just get a feeling of superiority over people in
cars when I think of how much their polluting the atmosphere and
how many 'technotrons' it takes to build and maintain a car.
Not to mention that they cause a traffic jam.  (In rush hour
Boston, I'll race you through 10 miles of busy roads, and win.)
As far as needing showers, I just underdress for the temperature,
so I don't sweat as much.  Yes, I have rented a car for moving on
a couple of occasions.  I will admit that cars are a necessary
evil (sometimes).  I would be in favor, however, of NO cars ever
being sold, but they could be rented from rental agencies.  How
do you like that, sports fans?
-- 
Randwulf
 (Randy Haskins);  Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh   or... rh@mit-ee (via mit-mc)