Sheldon wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 GM gregorymorrow wrote:
> >Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >> On Thursday, January 7, 2021 GM wrote:
> >> > Shucks, I used them a lot for bulky/pantry items...
> >> Shrug. I drive past the grocery store four times a day on weekdays.
> >> My once-a-week stop is sufficient to keep me in pantry goods.
> >
> >Shrug, I don't drive...
> Why not... choice, a medical reason, or cost?


Choice and cost...in 43 years I've never needed a car to commute to work, always took public transport...now I work entirely from home. When the pandemic thing subsides, I'll maybe go two/three days per week to the office, it's a ten - minute Metra train ride away...


> Can you walk to stores, can you pedal a bike?


I have a Whole Foods and a small Target a few walkable blocks away...have not ridden a bike since 1967, and I've no intention of reliving my childhood....all that I need, bank, post office, restos, a nice hardware store, bakery, likker store, bookstore etc. are all mere blocks away.

Now with the pandemic homeless bums swarm the entryways to these stores ['THANK YOU, liberal dumbocratic city government!") , and since in My Ideal Urban Environment I don't like vagrants, I'll avoid that mishegos...


> My mother never drove, she pulled a wire cart up to the Avenue for
> shopping...


I did the cart thing for many years when I lived in a more congested area, not doing that anymore...

People generally annoy me, so in - person grocery shopping is an easy thing to cut out, I order everything I need with a few mouse clicks. I'm never going back to in - person grocery shopping again...i may visit the Target, etc. every few weeks just "out of curiosity", but I really could eschew that...

The less people I have to interact with the more content I am ;-)


some heavy items she had delivered, like beverages, the
> seltza guy delivered siphon bottles, and all flavors of soda.


I not only have heavy items but most everything delivered by Amazon Fresh/Prime Now...


> In fact one could buy all the groceries and dry goods they'd needed
> from push carts and horse drawn carts making a steady stream on the
> Brooklyn streets; fresh meats, fresh seafood, fresh produce, fresh
> eggs, all sorts of clothing, even a shoemaker-cutlery sharpener, all
> kinds of dairy, fresh baked goods, could buy anything you could think
> of right at your front door... the Chinky laundry even picked up your
> soiled clothes and delivered your clothes back in pristine condition
> and expertly folded and wrapped. Carts came by with any hardware you
> could imagine. To hear Kootchie you'd think he invented electric
> vehicals... NYC had electric trolleys, electric busses, and still has
> electric trains... and many businesses used electric delivery trucks,
> diaper service was a biggie. Electric vehicles are meant for mass
> movement, an electric vehicle using OUR ROADS for moving just a single
> driver is the most idiotic, selfish, and wasteful conception. Kootchie
> has no reason whatsoever to use any vehicle, let the otiose bag of
> shit WALK! That slug doesn't go anywhere anyway.


We should all pitch in and gift K00tchie with a diaper service...about his level, LOL...!!!

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Best
Greg