How Far is Too Far?

[ShadowBall]

For the first half of my time in school, I had to walk about a mile and a half one way for class each day. This is because I lived on the North Side of Pittsburgh and had to walk downtown. At first, I was groaning about it, but after about two weeks, I was used to it - throw on headphones and just move my ass. The grocery store was only five minutes walking distance away too (yay for "Jian Iggle").

Then we got thrown out of the ghetto dorm and moved to one downtown. At that point, school was five minutes away, but food was a mile and a half away. I'd just walk my ass to the store and take the bus home because I often could not carry everything, and two bucks to go back downtown without sore fingers was worth it for me. However, I'd also go for a stroll on the South Side now and again and put in six or seven miles by the time I got back.

I swear, the shit people do so they don't need to walk a few extra feet or yards astounds me. And of course, they are never ever wrong for parking in spots they shouldn't park in - that's just the local law enforcement and towing services being a bunch of meanie-heads with nothing better to do.

[Seshat]

I'm guessing your scooter doesn't have armrests....?

It does, but hanging shopping bags from them would cause them to bang into my hips and legs painfully.

[Cerys]

One fun thing about hanging shopping bags on the back of a wheelchair is when you've bought just a little bit too much and the chair tips backwards the minute you climb out of it.

[AccountingDrone]

Same here. I can do about three blocks, sometimes more, but nothing like the five- or six-mile strolls I used to be able to do. I miss it.

Gotta go see the ortho again soon . . . *sigh*

I can manage gimping into a convenience store, but standing more than about 5 minutes or walking for about 5 minutes stresses out the sacral joints [impingements that screw with my sciatic nerve and piriformis muscle, and the stenosis in my lumbar spine combine to make it feel like someone just nailed me at the base of my back with a baseball bat]

Of course on a bad day either I don't go out, or Rob or Phlip have to go with me, and I use the chair when I am out of the car.

Rob tells me that when we move in a couple years we are getting a pool so I can do the aquatherapy at home, I only get 18 sessions a year with the change in the 'insurance' coverage tricare gives me which is pretty much tanked out by the middle of May =(

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

I have no choice. I live in a somewhat rural area on the Gulf Coast. There are no sidewalks, no bicycle paths and very limited buses. We are also one of the fattest states in the union. Hmmm...

[blas]

I have coworkers who will go out on every break to move their vehicle closer to the building so that they don't have to walk.

I think it's a waste to start your vehicle and waste gas just to drive up ahead a little bit and then just turn it off, especially when you do that multiple times.

Not to mention, you could have spent your break reading, socialising, eating, whatever. Nope, waste all piddly 10 minutes you get moving your car, so that you save a few steps in the morning.

[Mikkel]

Won't they have to walk the distance anyway? Just multiple times.

[blas]

Yeah, pretty much.

If they got to work just 10 minutes earlier, they'd probably get the spot they wantd, anyway. We're all short staffed nowadays.

Really, being parked close only helps if it's raining or something. No reason to not take a nice walk. People who truly can't walk very far have handicapped spaces.

[Argabarga]

I can do you one better.

I once had a coworker who, when he was done with his shift. Would take his tow truck around to the front of the building where employee parking was, hook up his car, tow it to the rear of the building, unhook it, park the truck, and drive home.

He'd then repeat the process backwards in the morning when he came in.

Just one of the many reasons he got fired, at $4 a gallon, diesel fuel is not to be used to cover your laziness

[blas]

I don't have any words for that. That's more than lazy.

Although I will say, it amazes me what people will do, THINKING they are saving time or steps, when really, they are adding more.

[Andara Bledin]

I have coworkers who will go out on every break to move their vehicle closer to the building so that they don't have to walk.

That... makes no sense whatsoever.

They're walking extra now so they don't have to walk later? Why? Once the car is parked, you're going to have to walk back to it anyway, so you might as well just walk back when you're done.

^-.-^

[Argabarga]

The amazing thing is, this was after numerous memos had been circulated that under absolutely no circumstance were you to use a tow truck for anything but a PAYING call. And these were the read-and-return kind, like certified letters, so you couldn't say you never got one.

After THREE of these, he STILL was doing it

He'd go get lunch with the truck, he'd go for coffee in the truck, he'd drive around at night looking for old furniture or broken kiddie toys that had been left for the garbagemen so he could pick them up on the way home.

When we'd ask him why he kept doing it despite being told not to, he'd just laugh this dumb redneck laugh and say "they ain't caught me yet!"

They did

He's gone

He's also the reason why we had to discontinue carrying fuel cans on the trucks (2 gal. cans of gas in case someone ran out on the road somehwere) because they, and the fuel inside them, kept "disappearing". One morning, we found all of them in the back of this numbnut's car, predictably empty.

Now, if you need to take someone gas, you have to drive back to the garage and pick up the communal can, go fill it, give ALL the gas to the customer, and then drive it back.

All because of this worthless yutz

[blas]

I think people were mostly doing it to catch a quick smoke, which is also dumb because a) if you get caught, you'll get written up, and b) it's a waste of a cigg to have to hide it.

[protege]

Although I will say, it amazes me what people will do, THINKING they are saving time or steps, when really, they are adding more.

Exactly. I don't know why they'd think this would save them time. Of course, I have a higher IQ than a 40-watt light bulb

The *only* time that I've moved my car at work, is when I have to haul "retired" equipment. I don't know about you, but I'm not willing to carry a heavy printer or other piece of crap...around the block to my car. Sorry, not happening. It's simply easier (and less stressful on my knees) to carry things downstairs, and then out the front door to the car. Plus, there's no additional bonus of stepping in dog shit on the sidewalk near the back door

[Racket_Man]

Something like this?

from the background it appears that video might have been shot at the EAA convention in Oshkosh