Comments on: Leftovers

By: snowelf

snowelf — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:25:25 +0000

I don’t ever think it’s wrong to appreciate the things you have.

–snow

And sometimes the things we don’t have. ~Tim

By: Becky

Becky — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:05:09 +0000

We flew for our Thanksgiving, which made me a little nervous but we did Sat – Sat so I think that helped it a little bit. I heard horror stories of the roads here on the Wed and Sunday after the holiday so I think I’ll try to avoid going anywhere far in the car on those days.

I think I would be more nervous flying at the holidays — just the control freak in me. ~Tim

By: Aymiee

Aymiee — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:39:11 +0000

Yes, you should be thankful!! I read somewhere that there was a car accident every 15 minutes here the in the US.

Given the number of vehicles on the road, I would believe an even higher number. ~Tim

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:43:14 +0000

I wonder what kind of mileage one would get in a 15-passenger family car.

I’ve been thinking about mileage lately since seeing all of the “petrol” signs in England this past week–the average price per LITER is 1.07. Multiply that by the current exchange rate of 2.11 and that’s 2.2577 dollars/liter, which means that gasoline costs around $8.54/gallon. And since the average Londoner spends up to one hour per day idling in a “queue” you can see how quickly these prices add up. AND they have to pay a daily congestion charge of eight pounds, or roughly 16.88 per day just to drive in their own neighborhood. Expensive!

So I doubt that a 15-passenger family car would be particularly cost-efficient in the UK, which is, of course, apropos of nothing but that I am hopped up on flu medicine right now and think numbers are funny.

Numbers are funny. Except 144, which is gross…. ~Tim