We don't have a car. We are very much in the minority. Even though it does seem a whole load of the cars you see here in Columbus are a bit battered, I'm assured that they do have some sort of MOT equivalent called "Inspection". *Having walked a few blocks down the road and buying a pretty cheap second hand CD player, you can't help but feeling a little bit like a looter walking back home with it.
We also don't have cell phones yet. This doesn't help when you walk 45 minutes to go and pick up your re-assembled bike and you haven't had a call to tell you it'll be another 50 minutes. It does mean that you can kill time at a local cafe reading all about the local college football scandal. The coach (Jim Tressel) was on $3.5 million a year... Oh sorry, that wasn't the scandal. This below from Sports Illustrated:
Tressel's most recent troubles began in December, when the Department of Justice, passing along information it had gathered in a raid while investigating the owner of a Columbus tattoo parlor for drug trafficking, informed Ohio State that at least six current players, including quarterback Terrelle Pryor, had traded team memorabilia for tattoos or cash at the parlor.
Sometimes you just HAVE to have a tattoo I suppose.
Tomorrow we may try and set up a bank account here in Ohio. We tried to do this yesterday but they weren't open. We really should have checked before we left; instead we made our first trip to our local record shop - Used Kids Records.
*It appears that there is no sort of MOT type inspection, which would go a long way to explaining the state of a lot of cars we've been seeing. Also, am guessing bringing in some sort of law about talking on your phone while driving is a long way down the list.
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