But Maggie had fun on her
short car ride with me, and it got us both out of the house for a
few minutes, so it wasn't a totally wasted trip.
There was hardly any public transportation, a
few streetcars to whose sides people clung like flies on a lump of sugar, two or three buses, a
few tiny
cars with no windshield wipers, and perpetually fogged windows, and some motorbikes with wooden seats trapped on the front, from which, after the
shortest ride, one toppled like a stone.
Compared to Americans, Germans own
fewer cars, drive them
shorter distances and less frequently, and walk and cycle and
ride transit more often.