Posted on 02/06/2015 1:59:56 PM PST by Kartographer
Upon getting the car and the key, a dealership employee hopped in the passenger seat to help him get re-acclimated to driving (starting with a button now, and such.) Then Robertson left — because despite all the attention, he still had to get to his 2 p.m. factory shift on time, and nothing stops James Robertson.
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Here on FR someone would have posted the same thing if it had been a Chevy, Toyota, Chrysler, Honda, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, VW.................
I would have laughed if he would have purchased Japanese!!
umm.. didn’t I say that..???
I don't.
Twenty years ago, I did a six week project in Washington DC for my company. They set several of us up in a rental house in Georgetown, but we had to figure out how to get ourselves to the jobsite in Dupont Circle on our own. Some guys bought bicycles, but I just walked.
It was about five miles, and as I recall, it took me a little over an hour to make the hike. I did the same thing every evening after work. Double the distance would have taken me a bit over two hours each way, which is about how far this guy's been hiking to work all these years.
It can be done.
So the article is misleading due to the tile, which is why I didn’t buy it since he doesn’t walk the entire 21 miles.
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