Re: Mass Transit

Sean O'Hara <seanohara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In the outer suburbs of DC, there are lots of houses that are ten or
more miles from any store that's not a gas station. And the local
roads aren't the sort you'd want to walk down.

I think people who choose to live in such places are either very
foolish or very desperate.

I don't know about Scotland, but here in Virginia the trunks
(ObUK: boots) of parked cars get very hot in the summer.
Placing groceries in such a trunk would ruin many of them.

No it doesn't.

I left a banana in the front seat of a car while it was parked in
the sun for a half hour. When I got back to the car, the banana
had turned black and liquefied. I doubt the trunk was any cooler.

And that's fresh fruit. Frozen food would fare even worse.
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