I have a car that won't jump (pretty sure it's a dead battery, but I have this issue so often I wonder if there isn't an electrical problem) and obsessive worries about chimney fires.
Sometimes I think I should quit burning the damn stove and invest in a good bicycle with a two-kid trailer.
Other than very long distances (100 miles to my side of the family, 1,000 miles to my husband's side), pretty much everything I do is within 10 miles of home. Everything truly important (school, preschool, grocery store) except the dentist and pediatrician is within 5 miles.
I could do that by bicycle with a little bit of planning.
I KNOW that sound is the refrigerator running. The stove pipe is so cool, I can put my ear against it to listen for roaring sounds. Can't get chimney fires out of my head. Probably because I'm irritated over the damn car.
Grrrrrrrr.
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"Alas, our dried voices when we whisper together are quiet and meaningless, as wind in dry grass, or rats' feet over broken glass in our dry cellar." --TS Eliot, "The Hollow Men"