The breeze of the evening rustled the branches. The shadows danced across the concrete sidewalk and the grass. Love walked with a cigarette in his hand. A cigar he had smoked earlier. But for a walk... he preferred a cigarette. Something about a  cigar warranted that he be seated. A...

Every car on the street was white. This made Sally think everybody who lived on the street was pragmatic. She wondered how long a cargo utility van could last. A lot of people made their living in them. Plumbers. Electricians. Carpenters.

What lended to these utility vans lasting so long? Sally's...

Will wasn't like everyone he knew back out West. For example he didn't want an electric car. He didn't know anybody out West who didn't find electric vehicles superior. In fact nobody out West even considered the possibility that anyone would prefer a gas guzzling  car . His friends assumed...

He estimated his car to have burned around 5,300 gallons of gasoline . This was based on the fact that it got 23 miles per gallon locally and 30 MPG on the highway.

The odometer approached 135,000 miles. The visualization of that number provided some sense of joy. Like no matter...

My  Hyundai has about 132,000  miles on it. Given its  MPG around 23 in the city and 30 on the highway and my driving patterns, I estimate that this car has now burned roughly 5500 gallons of gasoline . 

That's a lot of gas! And calculating by the average price...