Bill Bryson Notes From A Big Country The Great Indoors

THE GREAT INDOORS I was out for a walk the other day and I was struck by an odd thing. It was a glorious day - as good as a day can get, and very probably the last of its type that we shall see for many a long wintry month around here - and yet almost every car that passed had its windows up. All these drivers had adjusted their temperature controls to create a climate inside their sealed vehicles that was identical to the climate already existing in the larger world outside, and it occurred to