Ha ha...its this poetry thread...it gets me all thesaurused and vocabularised!
I only passed my test one and half years ago, had to make do with a bicycle for a year (I was blooming fit but my race times have improved now I no longer cycle to them) and then my motorbike. It is so nice to have a car for some of the time and actually be able to arrive at races intact, with some energy left, warm and on time!