Above all else, the East End grumbles about traffic on Memorial Day weekend. Routine errands are run in haste during the previous workweek or put off until Tuesday. If one does venture out, it’s as if on a polar expedition, with circling to find a spot like parking-lot polka. The traffic control officers do their best to keep things moving. Fender-benders abound. Tempers rise. “Who are these people?” we ask. “Where can they be going?” These questions may never be answered.

More seriously, motor vehicles remain one of the largest sources of greenhouse gases.

AMAGANSETT

15 Green Tree L.L.C. to P. and R. Kanter, 15 Green Tree Court, 2.06 acres, March 8, $6,166,000.

S. Goldart to Town of East Hampton, 25 and 35 La Foret Lane, 4.01 acres, March 28, $2,400,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

CVR First L.L.C. to D. Boutross, 23 Barn Lane, .84 acre, March 27, $3,300,000.

BMC Partners L.L.C. to Petrol Barn L.L.C., 3 Trademan’s Path, 1.09 acres, Feb. 27, $2,375,000.

EAST HAMPTON 

Wilmington Savings to B. Villa, 340 Three Mile Harbor Road, .73 acre, Feb. 20, $400,000.

GJ Ventures L.L.C. to C.

In this digital age in which even someone like me, who thinks of herself as a stickler for grammar and punctuation and has made the English language her lifetime work, uses linguistic shortcuts — IMHO, for example — it seems pretty antiquated to complain about other writers’ prose stylings.

I never claimed excellence in grammar, but there was a time when I boasted of a proclivity for spelling.