In two years he put 4,200 miles on his car. One snag in renting a room is that the papers who take classified ads impose a lot of rules on what you can and can't say. They cook four or five times a day because they're always hungry. Then they're too wasted from lack of lactose or whatever to clean up. If you like your stove constantly encrusted with rice and your refrigerator stuffed like Fibber McGee's closet, you'll love having a vegetarian in the house.
Reality is scary enough.
Maka MacKenna is a Eureka free-lance writer.