At first, having helped my mother in the years before her knee replacements, I thought the car was parked on that side of the driveway so as to be just a few steps closer to the front door. Watching those clips of Bob moving around, I recognised that careful don't-jar-the-aching-knees gait. When knees hurt, even saving three steps is significant.
But he had a garage. A double car garage, in fact. Wouldn't it save even more steps to just pull into the garage and enter the house that way? It was July and southern California. It had to be really hot during the day, why leave the car out to turn into an oven?
Plus, Bob seemed like a frugal person (which is praise from me) and he must have known that too much sun fades a car's upholstery and paint, lowering the eventual resale value. Using a garage at home can add hundreds of dollars onto a car's value at trade-in time (well, actually, prevent the loss of hundreds of dollars but you know what I mean).
It may be too late now but I wonder if Bob's car had GPS; if so, that would reveal the last time it was driven.
