carpooling
My lil’ cousin and I were talking yesterday and she mentioned wanting to visit her folks over the weekend but not having money for gas. I told her that since Mister Ant and I are going to pass her on the way anyway and our parents are within miles of each other, we didn’t mind stopping to pick her up on the way down south, so that is the new plan.
I didn’t think about how leaving the highway to pick her up on the way there and back will add mileage to the trip tonight. Or about how having one more body and another bag of clothes in the car might affect the mileage, especially since I am taking my laundry to my folks’ house (don’t even say anything about that, ‘cause if you didn’t have a washer and dryer at your home, you’d probably consider it, too - although I’m not sure what’s more expensive, the laundromat quarters or the amount of gas mileage I’m sacrificing by having the extra weight in the car). The heavier the car is, the worse the gas mileage will be. Carpooling, in this case, isn’t helping me, because I’m not asking my lil’ cousin for gas money. That just isn’t right.
Oh well. The laundry has to get done. And I’m helping the kid out. I remember when I was a broke college student and only went home when I could afford it. Gas costs four times as much now as it did when I was in college. If not for me, girlfriend would be stuck in campus housing all weekend.
Have a great weekend! (But stay frugal - maybe you can carpool to your destination, too!)
