Posted by Stephen Adams on 11/16/55 11:36

Justin <nospam@insightbb.com> writes:

>Stephen Adams wrote on [4 Jan 2006 17:34:51 GMT]:
>> Justin <nospam@insightbb.com> writes:
>>
>>>Luke Bosman wrote on [Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:44:10 +0000]:
>>>> Justin <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Michelle Steiner wrote on [Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:56:08 -0700]:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> > Obviously, you don't know what "lived without Windows" means.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's like living without air. Never experiencing it.
>>>>
>>>> Balderdash. In the phrase, "I've lived without a car for ten years" that
>>>> does not mean I have not sat in a car for ten years. It means that I
>>>> have not made regular use of one.
>>>
>>>Claiming to have lived without a car all one's life would mean they have
>>>not used a car, at all, in their life.
>>
>> In common usage, it would usually mean that they had not owned a car, not
>> that they had never driven/ridden in one. If someone said "I've lived
>> without a car for 6 years" I would assume (as would most people, I think)
>> that they didn't OWN one.
>
>So, someone could rent or lease one and still fall under your
>definition.

Sure. I worked for a boss who lived in the Loop (Chicago), and did't
own a car. She did rent one from time to time on business trips, but
I don't see (and she didn't) that anything chnaged because she rented
a car on rare occasions...she still lives her regular day-to-day life
without a car...

-Stephen

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