'But you get around, eh?'

[queensgirl]

Okay. I’ve asked a question somewhat applicable to this before, but it’s bugging me since I've watched again a couple of episodes which make similar references.

David says in the dinner conversation in “Sam and Dave” that he “[doesn’t have] a car.”

Then how does he get around?

I know while he’s at work, he often has access to Maddie’s BMW, which seems to be the all-purpose company car. The red car seems to have vanished at some point.

In order to get back and forth from work, David could use the bus. So that could account for that.

What that doesn’t tell us is how he gets other places in general, such as locations where the bus line probably doesn’t go.

It’s unwieldy, not to mention the cost will add up, to just take taxi cabs every time he has to leave the office building and Maddie might need the BMW instead.

I’m thinking in particular of “The Man Who Cried Wife.” Dave goes back to the Bower house to talk to the man and the sister-in-law.

Maddie then drives over, in that fake “I was just in the neighborhood” instant. So she had to have her car.

Uh, how’d David get there?



Also in that episode (I think earlier), there's the time Maddie is at the office, and she's waiting for him to come back--she just paces up and down the halls--and then he walks in later. Same question. Since Maddie was obviously at the building ahead of him, so she had to have arrived by car, how'd Dave get back?

There may be a really silly answer to this, which I hope I’m not missing, but I wonder about things sometimes. Thanks.

[Dave]

You have a point.
I felt that David is generally a person that does not believe in the notion of saving money in general. He propably must have been spending his money on taxi cubs and having fun rather than anything else such as living room furniture.

It is possible to go around with spending such money on taxi cubs and cocktail hours, it has been done, no doubt about it, as long you go minimalistic on everything else. David is the classic example of a bachelor.

[adyjdy]

I've actually come to the conclusion that the car is one point where the writers decided monstrous inconsistency was perfectly acceptable. Watched "Son Also Rises Last Night" and found another one that has always bothered me. They go to the party together in the BMW. Then, Maddie tells David at the party that she's going home in a cab. Yet when she goes to leave work the next day, she walks out to the parking garage like she fully expects the BMW to be there... even though by all accounts David had it the whole night and the whole next day, when Maddie came to work.