Mother: Apparently there’s a car that does something like 80 miles to the gallon … which is pretty impressive, you know, because it’s not just for two people.
Son: That’s the kind of thing you might expect from a motorbike.
Mother: I know … I was thinking we ought to get something like that; we could keep this one for long journeys – but most of the time there’s only two of us and it seems silly to take this one just to go to the shops.
Son: We could always use the bus.
Mother: No, they’re just so unreliable.