Mary, without a car you may need to be creative if you have to leave (rental? Uber?), but without a car you avoid things like license tag costs and insurance. Sounds like a win to me.

Today the plumber cleared the blockage in the front cleanout and I thought changing out the hose bib would be a piece of cake. Turns out that the hose bib took several tries because whoever (decades ago) crimped an aluminum clamp onto the copper pipe for an antenna wire ground overdid it and the copper pipe was bent a bit oval in shape. That shape kept defeating the new sweated-on fitting. The options were to keep trying or to go into the bathroom and cut a hole in the wall through a cabinet to run a new copper line outside (instead of removing brick). He kept trying and on about the fifth try got it, and really undercharged me for the whole trip. His assistant ran the snake for the sewer line and back and forth to turn water on and off while the faucet was worked on. The bill wasn't nearly as big as it could be, and the tip was pretty close to that amount, worth it to me that he kept working and saved me having to bring in a carpenter to fix the wall. Handing over the tip he said "That much?" - and I told him it was up to him how he shared it, but it was worth his trouble.

That faucet has bugged me for years, I've found many ways to try to prevent it from dripping. As of this evening it's a new faucet and working the way it should.

Now back to everything else I was planning to do today.