Complaining about the ride is easy when you’ve never had to find one.

Complaining about how you got somewhere depends on never having doubted that you would get there. A ride you did not have to find, negotiate or pay for is easy to criticise, because its existence was never in question for you. Plenty of people spend real effort solving that problem every single day. The comfort of assuming is invisible right up until it stops.

Thank whoever drives you this week, out loud, unprompted. Then offer gas money or a chore in return. Noticing a service only when it fails is a habit, and it is one you can drop early.