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  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 days ago

    Okay so I saw someone yesterday also walking home with a chair, but my real question is who the fuck needs just one single dining room chair? Do y’all not have sets?

    I mean, I don’t even have a dining room so I guess who am I to talk but it was just confusing to me.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 days ago

      Would you want to carry an entire dining room set while walking or taking the subway home?

      It would be difficult to carry even just two non-folding chairs without inadvertently being an asshole to people around you, unless the sidewalks were dead.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    27·
    8 days ago

    I do love the looks of bus drivers when you get on with a load of crap in your hands.

    One time, I had to fetch two larger packages from the post office, so when I got onto the bus, I really had to aim to fit through the door and also prop up my ticket in my right hand, so I could still hold the packages with both hands. And the bus driver just looked at me like “ehm… okay… I guess, we doin package delivery then”.

    Another time, I went shopping in the next city over and after half an hour, I got back onto the bus with four packed shopping bags and saw that it was the same bus driver who brought me into the city. And he clearly saw that I had just been shopping and nothing else, so he gave me a look of “well, that’s convenient, that you’ve got your personal chauffeur”. 🙃

  • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    8 days ago

    I guess I don’t understand the reference. How else are you going to get something you bought back to your place? This doesn’t seem weird. I’m not in or from, and have never been to, NYC though, so I’m probably missing something lol

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      10·
      7 days ago

      I think it’s because… “rural” people who shit on NYC, yet have never set foot in a modern American city, will hear shit on Fox News and literally believe that the NYC subway is a warzone for rival vagrants to fight to the death, and there’s no way you’d be able to transport something like that without it being stolen, or broken, etc.

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      6 days ago

      I also don’t get it.

      Obviously they are not the same if one is comfortable in NYC, on the subway with a chair, and the other one is not.

      Is this an idiom I don’t understand? We are not the same? Is it like Kendrick Lamar saying “they not like us”?

  • sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    8 days ago

    My ex made me carry a window unit air conditioner someone was throwing away to the subway, take two trains then carry it home. She was visiting from New Orleans and didn’t believe me when I said people leave shit like that on the sidewalk all the time in New York. It was fall. I could very well find another one closer to home.

  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
    11·
    8 days ago

    My apologies to everyone the one time I needed to get a coffee table to my new apartment on 179st. I was a really broke student and it was too heavy to lug.

  • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
    9·
    7 days ago

    We’re not the same. I like being able to go on a hike after taking 20 steps from my front door. I like hearing and seeing new birds regularly from my window. I like walking my dog without suffocating on the smog of the Manhattan streets.

      • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 days ago

        I’ve been to New York 4 times and to new England many many times. Funny how YOU can’t tell. Sometimes I like to say things that get people riled up. Like saying I like living in the city that I live in. I’m sorry I’m happy?

    • solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      7 days ago

      I’m a little amused by the down votes.

      Yes some cities have a lot of perks, no the air quality isn’t as bad as the 60s, but pretending that taking the metro to the park is comparable to living in a forest is a little silly.

      • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 days ago

        I’m amused too. People are offended that I prefer living in nature compared to a concrete jungle. That’s my preference. Live where you want folks. I’m not your mommy.

    • GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml
      5·
      7 days ago

      I’m from the country side and I very much like easy access to nature, but New York is a great city, especially with all the parks! The subway is bomb

      • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
        4·
        7 days ago

        More like the '90s and the Montreal protocol, but yeah. It ain’t what it was. Now it’s wildfire smoke from Canada!

        • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          2·
          6 days ago

          Air quality is getting worse everywhere thanks to wildfires and the like, but my point was that you don’t look at a city like NYC or Boston and see an orange haze from the smog and leaded gasoline emissions anymore.

          The biggest issues with cities largely come down to cars, and having grown up in a summer beach hotspot, I can tell you that it can be just as bad out in the countryside. From noise pollution to emissions to traffic, you can largely thank cars for all of it. Road noise is actually one of the loudest things in a city. In places that have limited access to cars, you can immediately tell the difference.

      • Horsecook@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        6 days ago

        I live about sixty miles east, and a mile above, Los Angeles. There’s a few spots on the road to my house that have a direct line of sight to the DTLA skyscrapers. Which I can actually see approximately 5 days a year, when specific wind conditions blow away all the smog.

        The sky’s certainly less brown than it used to be, but it’s still brown.

        • bitcrafter@programming.dev
          2·
          6 days ago

          That’s fair, but my understanding is that Los Angeles is an extreme case rather than a representative example of a typical American city, in part because of its unfortunate location in a valley and in part because of its sprawl. The fact that pollution is particularly hard to control there is why California is legally uniquely able to apply for its own set of automobile pollution regulations that are stricter than the rest of the country.

          • Horsecook@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            6 days ago

            Los Angeles is an extreme case, but air pollution remains an urban problem. Emissions have been reduced, not eliminated.

            It can still be a problem without being so visible as to limit your vision to less than a city block while the infirm non-hyperbolically suffocate to death.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 days ago

      Yeah, I think you’re being a bit hyperbolic, but I generally agree. I live about an hour from Manhattan (from the Holland, and then another hour to get through lololol), but I’m fifteen minutes from a reservoir that you can hike and boat, fifteen minutes from farms. My town is walkable, and I can walk to a hospital, grocery store, and library in, you guessed it, fifteen minutes. I’m an hour and change from the shore, about the same from the Poconos. I like having access to all the places, but I like to live in suburbia.

  • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    It doubles as a weapon on the train once the cage match ensues. Most people use folding chairs, but this one isn’t fucking around.