Mine is a 40-minute walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, or a ten minute subway ride.
I got stabbed, you know, right here.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Jun 20, 2011 3:32:35 pm PDT #13469 of 30001
They pay me in WOIMS
shrift - Jun 20, 2011 3:32:50 pm PDT #13470 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Man, somebody tell me to eat dinner, pack my suitcase, call for a cab, and go to bed. 4am is gonna be ugly.
amych - Jun 20, 2011 3:35:30 pm PDT #13471 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I won't taunt with my commute.
Liese S. - Jun 20, 2011 3:36:34 pm PDT #13472 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ha, you're totally taunting in your head! Fess up!
Hey, shrift, do stuff!
tommyrot - Jun 20, 2011 3:37:37 pm PDT #13473 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Since work moved to Highland Park, my commute is 60 to 70 minutes, depending on which train I take. That includes 20 minutes walking to and from train stations. But the train is a big, comfy diesel commuter train, so that's nice. (I can read on the train without getting motion-sick, unlike the CTA trains.) My commute is the opposite direction of rush hour, which means fewer trains, but less crowded as well.
Not counting a few short temp jobs, I haven't had to drive to a job since high school, which makes me happy.
zuisa - Jun 20, 2011 3:38:13 pm PDT #13474 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Shrift, get your stuff done!!!
However, when I need to be at 4:00 AM, I just don't go to bed.
megan walker - Jun 20, 2011 3:41:34 pm PDT #13475 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
How long is everybody's commute? How long is a normal commute?
One thing I learned from the book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) [Blog here: [link] is that cities have grown at a rate that matches transportation evolution so that getting to the center has always been pretty much 30 minutes. This standard has also driven development today, if only subconsciously.
My commute is 30 minutes door-to-door walking and was almost exactly that when I lived out on the ocean side but had to take MUNI.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 20, 2011 3:42:25 pm PDT #13476 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I have a 15 minute care ride, followed by a 10 minute walk from parking, or about 45 mnutes on the bus.
Home is sometimes ridiculous. I stopped at the liquor store and grocery store, and between delays and such, it was 2 and a half hours.
bon bon - Jun 20, 2011 3:45:33 pm PDT #13477 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
My commute is about one hour d-t-d. But Thursday is the last day for that. Then it will be three minutes.
Amy - Jun 20, 2011 3:47:23 pm PDT #13478 of 30001
Because books.
My commute used to be about ten minutes short of two hours, door to door, but that was living in PA and commuting to NYC from Trenton.
Where we used to live in NJ, it was still about 90 minutes because our train line didn't go straight to NYC.
My commute now is across the room to my desk, which does not suck.