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Times columnist Steve Lopez took the bus from home in Silver Lake to the office for the first time since he lost his driver's license due to suffering seizures after a bad bike mishap.
My wife and daughter walked me to the corner, and I felt like a kid on his first day of school. We waved goodbye and I headed off to start my new life in Los Angeles.A man without a car.
No fewer than 40 readers have offered to drive him around, Lopez writes. (Insert gratuitous cracks about his rumored $200,000+ salary from envious scribes around town.)