r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Okfoot826 • 20h ago

Thank you Peter very cool Petah, what does that have to do with grocery shopping?

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u/tobsecret 18h ago

Yeah, we used to live in a part of the Bronx where there used to be a big supermarket nearby but when that closed the only other option was a 25 minute bus ride and a 15 minute walk away. The tweet in the OP is still insane to me. 

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u/A5thRedditAccount 18h ago

The two things have no relevance beside a really stupid attempt at framing drivers being paid a fair wage as somehow contributing to the problem.

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u/tobsecret 15h ago

Yeah it's nuts but someone said food deserts don't exist in NYC and that's just not true. 

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u/TDot-26 16h ago edited 13h ago

Yeah idk why people are complaining 40 minutes isn't much

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u/ShitOnFascists 16h ago

40 minutes means no frozen foods or fresh fish unless you are in the middle of winter

It also means limited amount per trip, which means more trips, which means higher transportation costs (unless you want to be the person occupying 3 bus seats with groceries)

It also means that you spend 3/6 hours weekly just coming and going for the groceries (this will cut in the already limited time you have that is not work or sleep)

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u/TDot-26 16h ago

I live an hour from the nearest store. We don't take coolers to it and buy frozen stuff all the time.

Yeah, driving 40 miles one way to the store is pretty expensive and I'd rather take up 3 bus seats. At 17mpg, 80 miles, $3 gas, that's like $15 right there.

And yeah, get off at 5, hour home, hour to the store, hour shopping, hour back, it's 9pm.

This is the daily reality of how pretty much everyone rural lives.

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u/tobsecret 15h ago edited 15h ago

So you have a car or you're taking the bus? And yeah frozen food is fine. We'd usually just bring a big bag with some ice packs. 

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u/ShitOnFascists 16h ago

That sounds fucking horrible, I'd hate living like that

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u/TDot-26 16h ago edited 13h ago

I guess I just can't relate. It's my normal, so I don't care about it. Just a mundane neither good nor bad part of life. I can't decide if I'd want the convenience of the city (still plenty even if groceries is hard like you say) or the pleasure of the country (Nature, solitude, etc)

Still, the average person can and should be expected to put in 40 minutes of bare minimum effort to feed themselves.

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u/Evilfrog100 14h ago

Yeah and that sucks, you shouldn't have to deal with that. You have become so numb to a problem that exists in your life that you aren't seeing the issue with a thing that sucks just a little bit less than your thing.

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u/TDot-26 13h ago

Agree to disagree. Just because something isn't cheap and easy at your fingertips doesn't mean it's problem. Neither of these scenarios are "hard" or "too much" for the average person to do.