are these actually miles?

When I first finished the story,I was a little confused because throughout the whole story I thought that Toni knew the reason why they were selling the car- but then at the end it became very clear that she had no idea what the real reason was. "Bankrupt!" she screams. She twists loose grabs and tears his undershirt at the neck. "You son of a bitch". I think that as a husband, it was not fair for him to keep her in the dark, considering all the trouble the she went through to help him get the car sold.

I think that it was really great the way in which carver uses description. there isnt to much detail yet the reader is still able to see what is actually going on in the story. There is not alot of drama in the story to grab the readers attention,but its still entertaining.

I also think that within the context of the short story, the author is saying a little bit about the debt problem that millions of American families face. He says on pg. 148 " they buy what they want. If they cant pay, they charge" and I think that so many people in todays society fall into this cycle. Leo is clearly someone who is unhappy with his own life- we can see through his heavy drinking habits that he is trying to avoid some type of reality. The whole instant gratifcation idea and depression kind of go hand and hand because many people think... oh I am sad- so let me buy things that I think will make me happy and as the the things they buy just continue to get bigger , so do the prices, and with those two things increasing, the hole that is within also gets bigger. So many people think they need so many material things to make them happy and hardly nobody realizes how unhappy its actually making them.

Im not sure if its because I am completly missing something- but the title threw me off a bit. I guess I can connect the miles part with the convertible but I dont understand why at the end Leo says "between friends, are these actaully miles?" and the man responds "look, it doesnt matter either way" p.151 . What does the title actaully mean? and do you think that anything that carver wrote in the context of this story reflects the society we live in today?