Not long ago, about two or three weeks, when I was returning home in a public transport I occasionally heard that one man standing next to me said to another man that “cars influence relations between spouses greatly”. The two men got off on the next bus stop but I could not stop thinking about this phrase.
We don’t have a car in our family, that’s why it was difficult for me to understand that expression for the first time, but an unexpected talk with my friend on this topic has cleared the meaning of this phrase for me. Eric, my friend, said to me that he quite often had quarrels with his wife because of the car: she didn’t like the fact that he spent a lot of weekends in the garage in stead of helping her about the house and playing with children; she often got angry because he spent about a half of his salary on spare parts for the car (though at the beginning of a month they planned to buy a new toaster or a set of spoons and forks); she usually said that the fact that he preferred for instance to buy suspension parts on sale or make car covers deals in stead of buying necessary things for the house made her very angry.
Eric revealed me a small secret that after his wife got tot know that he was going to make Nissan tuning (which wasn’t a necessity but just his desire) she didn’t talk to him for about three days. The same was with additional Fuzion discount tires.
So after a conversation with Eric I decided that we did very well without a car and we could easily continue to live without it.
Nearly a week ago we discussed this question with my wife and we came to conclusion that we would better buy a motorcycle in stead of a car, as it’s cheaper to buy and to repair (for example, if I need to shop for motorcycle seats I’ll spend less money than if I need to shop for car seats), it’s easier to care about and it’s not so complicated in use.
In general I think that we found a good way out from such a situation, because we think that our friendly relations are far more important!

