- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.world
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Are American sidewalks so inexistent that you can’t walk there instead? Driving so close for groceries blows my mind.
Unfortunately, yes. The closest grocery store is literally a 5 minute drive away, but the 2-lane road there is just wide enough for the cars (driving at decent speed) in either direction. No sidewalks and nigh impossible to bike due to the monster trucks on the road and drainage ditches immediately to either side of the road.
Americans think they need to get an entire month’s groceries in one go
Even then, there are cargo bikes.
My closest grocery store is more than two miles away (3.2km). I’m not walking that carrying several bags of groceries. I certainly don’t have time to go to the store more than once a week or so.
3.2 is like less than 10 minutes on a bike, which can easily carry more than a week’s worth of groceries with the right type of equipment.
That is a lot more than a 4 minute drive then.
Going to the shop here by car is by google maps, “typically 7-12 mins” for a 2 mile trip and that is a pretty accurate estimate. I can cycle it reliably in 10 and don’t even have to sober up.
You drive for a 4 minute journey?
Nah fuck it, I’ll just turn on the radio. I don’t like pop songs or people talking all the time, but it’s probably fine for the 4 min drive?
Somehow the entire 4 minutes are only advertisements. And changing channels doesn’t help because all the channels sync up the times they do ads to prevent people from switching around. And even worse, it’s the same thing on the drive back.
That’s how you know all the channels you’re trying are owned by the same company (clear channel/iheartradio)
Sometimes I find music can be a way to motivate me to get out of the house, in a “silly human needs her silly rituals” kind of way. I wonder whether this may be the case for OP (whether that’s the OP of this post, or the original OP of the meme)
How dare you call me out like this.
