So a person finds a place to live and a place to work. For most, there's some measure of distance between those two places and so getting to work requires a commute. From what I've been able to observe, it seems that people generally look at the map, maybe drive the distance once (likely in the middle of the day), decide how many minutes they think their commute should take, and then forevermore they assert that they have an X-minute commute.
But how many times does the X-minute commute have to take Y-minutes before that person decides they actually have a Y-minute commute? It seems the answer is infinitely many. This is to say, the person will never actually revise their mental estimation of how long their commute is, irrespective of their daily experience.
The number of cars on the road can double, the state can tear up every road between home and job, and global warming can turn the weather patterns upside down, but "I have a twenty minute commute, dammit," and the fact that 80% of the time it actually takes forty minutes isn't going to change that.
Weird (but easy for me to say, as I can walk to work).
Sure, you can walk to work, but how many minutes does it take?
ReplyDeleteTwenty minutes, plus or minus, to work; thirty-ish back home. I live at the top of the hill so it's a slower trip up. But these days I'm more of a bus person. Warmer and less exhausting.
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