On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> JDG wrote:
> >
> > Nit-picking...... you can probably find a job near "home",
> > just not a job that you want.
> >
> I have a job so close to home, that it takes me 30 minutes
> [of which most is spent waiting for the elevator and
> the subway car, and walking to the subway station] to get
> there. About two weeks ago, there was a problem in the
> subway, and I walked home, and arrived there 40 minutes later.
>
> Needless to say that I was so tired [probably the Texans
> know what it means to walk 40 minutes in a 40-degree weather]
> that I had to eat 1/4 of a 2-liters icecream :-)
Geez, after that, I would have wanted sherbet or sorbet or something a
little lighter than ice cream. :) (And I don't think I'd eat quite that
much ice cream in one sitting. Half that much, sure, if I really needed
that sort of a heat sink.)
And yes, I've done that sort of thing before. Usually not when it was
quite up to 40C, but 35C, certainly. I'd get the "well, THAT was stupid"
look from people when I told them about it, too. But if the subway is
broken, not much you can do....
My sister's commute is 30 minutes if she walks. She usually walks --
saves herself over $2 a day on bus or subway fare that way, and she gets
her exercise. If it's really rotten, she'll use public transportation,
but it has to be really rotten. She doesn't use her car for such short
jaunts. (Living in the middle of a city has its advantages -- I can't get
my groceries home before the ice cream would melt taking any form of
transportation besides a car, and she can just walk it the few blocks from
the nearest store, and not have a problem.)
Julia
