No. They've lost their loyalty to walking! This is specially true in North America, the land of the automobile. In the USA, walking longer distances is now becoming so unusual that it arouses suspicion on the part of police officers and residents. They suspect you must be some kind of criminal or vagrant if you aren't driving!

And I kid you not. ;-) Many people have been stopped and questioned by police here and there, simply because they were walking, not driving.

I like to go for walks. One night I was walking in my own area, not far from home, and I got stopped and questioned for some time by a police officer who came driving by. He eventually decided I was okay, but he advised me that walking around at night was odd behaviour. (He clearly thought that I should be sitting at home in front of the TV like a good citizen.)

I thought his behaviour was a bit odd too... ;-)

We now have drive-in restaurants, drive-in banks, and all kinds of other such facilities...specially designed for people who cannot bear to get out of their seat even to go and eat a meal or make a bank deposit! They want to "save time". Ha! I laugh at them.

I keep wondering when drive-in urinals will be provided in North America for the "man on the go". The guy whose time is WAY too valuable to leave his car and find a public washroom or (*shudder*) walk somewhere. You pay 25 cents and the machine extends a rubber vacuum hose. You pull the hose in through the car window, unzip, plug in, and do your thing, all in the privacy of a small drive-in stall which encloses you and the car from public view. I think this could be quite a popular service if they could just figure out how to sanitize the receptacle after each user is done.

Maybe people could carry their own receptacle, available from WalMart for a mere $35, and plug it onto the hose nozzle! Wow.

I gotta talk to the marketing guys about this one...