Rats ate my car, and that’s okay

Getting to work after 2020

Photo by Jessica Furtney on Unsplash

“Heed my words,” said my housemate, ominously, “watch your cars.”

Neither of my two housemates nor I have been driving much. We live in a typical, wooded suburb in North Carolina where the houses seem to have snuck in quietly among the native trees. Critters walk around the yards, all day and all night, housecats being the least comfortable among larger…