Does this count?

So, yesterday a friend’s car broke down and she asked to borrow mine. Sure, right? I mean, there’s still one less car on the road, and I’m not driving. Except that I am, or I did--I delivered the car to her. Some purity gene in my DNA threw up a red flag--I thought you said you weren’t driving your car for a month and here you just did! (And I loved it, I have to say--more on that unnerving reality some other time.)

I decided to call phooey on consistency (and as a copyeditor no less!), with this reasoning: part of this car-free experiment is about exploring ways to share a resource, of not being sole owner or user of that plastic and who-knows-what hunk of machinery in my driveway that sucks cash like water. Share the resource, share the cost, cut down on quantity of said monsters overall--and in this case that means sharing my unused car with someone who needs it. Duh.