Abroad in a Runabout (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Abroad in a Runabout

It is difficult for any automobile owner to define the mental workings that brought him within that class: the fever is so insidious, its culmination in ownership so sudden, the justifications for the purchase given are so often far from the fact, that one might as well admit, in the first instance, that he was obsessed, and that the purchase was made without any real reason or necessity and without any clear conception of the responsibility that the ownership involved.

The first days or weeks after becoming the owner of a machine are taken up with learning to drive and manage it, with covering well-known roads and localities, and usually at about the time that these things have lost their attraction the first tour is taken.

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