{"id":32068,"date":"2012-07-23T15:05:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T19:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=32068"},"modified":"2012-07-23T16:13:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T20:13:38","slug":"the-last-day-of-tanner-zurkoskis-month-in-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/07\/23\/the-last-day-of-tanner-zurkoskis-month-in-a-car\/","title":{"rendered":"The last day of Tanner Zurkoski&#8217;s month in a car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jKMtwrhiIKU?rel=0\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tanner Zurkoski is sitting in the <a href=\"http:\/\/ebw.evergreen.ca\/move\/monthinacar\">car that\u2019s become his home for a month<\/a>, and will cease to be such after today. It\u2019s a hybrid that barely allows him to sit in the driver\u2019s seat comfortably without hitting his knees on the steering wheel; he is 6\u20194\u201d after all. When asked whether there\u2019s anything he wants to say about living in a car, he answers, \u201cI don\u2019t recommend it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s experienced the kind of psychological ups and downs one might expect someone in his place to go through. Fortunately, Zurkoski seems to be ending on a relative high note. \u201cIf you had asked me like a week ago [how I felt], I would have been super lethargic and been like, \u2018This is the dumbest decision I\u2019ve ever made; this is terrible,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cBut I mean, now \u2014 it sounds weird \u2014 but I\u2019ve gotten used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zurkoski finds himself in his current home because of a call he answered from Evergreen, the organization that runs the Brick Works. Evergreen, along with car sharing company Autoshare, wanted to draw Torontonians\u2019 attention to the <a href=\"http:\/\/ebw.evergreen.ca\/move\/\">MOVE Expo<\/a> \u2014 and the fact that the average Torontonian spends 80 minutes per day commuting in a car, which works out to about a month for every year \u2014 by performing a stunt that would be impossible to miss. That\u2019s where Zurkoski comes in. He\u2019s been hired to live (this includes eating, sleeping, tweeting, blogging, and conducting interviews like the one with Paul Bedford, above) in a car for an entire month, spending a minimum of 23 hours a day in its cramped space.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Zurkoski says that while it seemed more of a \u201cromantic\u201d idea at the start, it has since lost its shine. Even being paid $1,000 a week seems slightly less attractive when other factors come into play. \u201cThe amount of money I\u2019m making is more or less what I would have made, and that would have been working 12 hour days \u2014 not 24 hour days \u2014 and I could have slept in an air-conditioned apartment with a queen sized bed so&#8230;financially that\u2019s not the main motivation,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The past few weeks have seen some of the hottest days of the summer, and Zurkoski says it was a little unbearable. With temperatures hitting mid-30s and humidity adding another five to ten degrees, sitting in a car is the last thing many Torontonians wanted to do. But Zurkoski is passionate about the cause he\u2019s promoting, especially as an avid transit user himself. \u201cI actually happen to like the TTC because [Toronto] is the only city I\u2019ve only lived in that has functional transit and I think I am in a very small majority when I say the TTC is pretty cool,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-32077\" title=\"monthinacar\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/07\/IMG_0008-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/07\/IMG_0008-2.jpg 4272w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/07\/IMG_0008-2-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/07\/IMG_0008-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The job hasn\u2019t come without its challenges, but Zurkoski says he hopes it got the message across, and gets people thinking a little bit more about how they spend their time and whether it\u2019s the wisest decision. \u201cObviously me spending a month in car is not going to make anybody do anything,\u201d Zurkoski says, \u201cbut hopefully what it does do is it engages people in a conversation about it at the very least.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully that engages people enough so that they take their own interest and they pursue [the issue] independently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for what long-term effects living in a car will have on him, Zurkoski says he\u2019s not sure. \u201cI like the analogy of when like your dad \u2014 when you\u2019re in a 1950s movie \u2014 catches you smoking and makes you smoke the entire pack. I\u2019m getting that feeling with the car. It\u2019s either that I\u2019m never going to drive again or I\u2019m never going to leave this car.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanner Zurkoski is sitting in the car that\u2019s become his home for a month, and will cease to be such after today. It\u2019s a hybrid that barely allows him to sit in the driver\u2019s seat comfortably without hitting his knees on the steering wheel; he is 6\u20194\u201d after all. 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