Re: Pearls Before Swine: Rat The Luddite

On 8/17/2024 5:21 AM, D wrote:

  On Fri, 16 Aug 2024, Paul S Person wrote:
 

On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:22:11 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
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Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:

On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:13:46 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
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<snippo mucho, response is to plastic reusable shopping bags>
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I use cloth bags....

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I have a box with handles (e.g. a document storage box) that
I keep in the car.  Tell the checker to leave everything in
the cart and transfer from cart to box at car.
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No bags necessary.

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I'm non-motorized, so I not only need bags (currently boxes, as noted
elsewhere) but need exactly two of them (having exactly two arms to
tote them with), which affects how much I can buy at one time.
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But walking to and (especially) from the store is great exercise!
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 This is the truth! I try to make it a point to walk to the store and walk back with the bags for the exercise aspect.
 I call it "micro-exercise" by which I mean all the small physical things in life, that adds to our calory burn such as:
 1. Walking to the store.
2. Carrying groceries.
3. Walking back.
4. Taking the stairs.
5. Walking to business meetings (if they are a maximum of 20-25 minutes away).
 It is my firm belief that this has a positive effect on my health. It is also my firm belief, that calling home food, using electric bikes/ scooters, taking the elevator, in the aggregate detracts from ones health.

I had to junk my vehicle as we got deep into the pandemic. As funds were tight,  spending on repairs would have been unwise, especially as it was built it the mid-1990s and something else would have gone bad after what
was wrong with it was repaired.  I only recently replaced it with a 2008 model.  I have only used it as a "grocery-getter" pending my getting it tuned up, tires replaced etc.  As the pandemic approached, the firm I
was working for closed up shop in my state.  As I no longer had to commute, I returned to walking and taking transit for my infrequent trips out of the house. I had groceries delivered often. I have used a
bicycle with suitable panniers and rack for grocery-getting and commuting during other carless stretches of my life.  One thing I liked was putting the bike on a rack on the front of a bus, and doing a hybrid commute. That could cut a 15-mile trip down to about 5 miles of peddling. I even have an MTA permit to take my bike on local trains. One can't use that during peak commuting hours, though.
I've been living halfway up a steep hill for some years. When it was plain that I would not be immediately able to replace my old Jeep, I invested in a foldable grocery cart - in New York slang, a "granny cart" - and either walked or rode the bus to the store, filled that, and either rolled all that home (1.6 miles one-way) or called an Uber, depending on how much I had bought. I, too, have had neighbors stop and offer me rides when I was returning home, trudging uphill.  Apparently, I could sometimes look like I was in rough shape.  There was one weekend where I really was, and eventually had to go to the hospital for an emergency procedure. I'm fine, now. Usually, I would thank those who offered help, explain that I was getting my daily exercise, and wanted to finish my "workout."
Though I once again have a vehicle, if I want something from my local convenience store, I will still walk there. It's 0.6 miles, round trip, down the hill and back up it. The nearest liquor store is 1.4 miles away, so a nearly 3 mile walk for a 6-pack.
I should get my bicycle back in good repair. Besides being good exercise, I enjoy riding. As a kid I rode to hell-and-gone, often making the rounds of my town in order to pick up all the latest comics and eventually the SF digest magazines.  For most of my school days I lived half a mile from our public library, and I would stop in there several times a month, and weekly or more in the summer.
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