That’s where it starts!
I do often wonder how many pennies per hour the shell hunters make.
20 minute walk in the morning, sometimes the traffic is horrible. Sneaker to sneaker backed up for miles.
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While i don’t know anything about your friend’s store, most seashell stores are supplied by a trade that absolutely devastates the natural environment. The shells are collected from reefs and the sea floor in their thousands, while still alive. There are reefs in parts of southeast Asia that have been almost completed denuded of life due to shell collectors.
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You guys have it easy. I have to walk down a hallway, then down the stairs, then make 2 rights! Plus, there always seems to be a 2 cat pileup on the stairway.
Had a pod of orcas stall our ferry for a good 10-15 minutes last week (Seattle). Outside of that and the boat being cancelled occasionally during fall/winter storms with mother nature’s having a good tantrum making the waves too treacherous, all the other rants here about traffic are very valid reasons I am SO glad I don’t drive to work anymore.
Uber envious of those with an under 30-step commute to work - swines! 
The hub does drive tho, 1.5-2hrs one way - ahhh, the ranting he could do in this string…
mhendo, you are, indeed, seriously off-topic with this. Feel free to start a new thread if you’d like to talk about this, though.
Thanks,
twickster, MPSIMS moderator
A couple of months ago they closed one of the roads on the way to work for resurfacing. It took me twice as long to get to work every day!
It’s open again now though, so I’m back to five minutes.
I joined this terribly overburdened group in July and every time someone asks me how it’s going I just BEAM. I still go into the office one day a week but the commute just amuses me for that one day now because I know I won’t have to do it again for an entire week.
Crazy how much happiness one little change can add to your life. My client has been bugging me for a year and a half to go full time and based on this change I’m kicking off a conversation with him about it. I’m not taking a chance on them hiring someone else full time and going back to commuting somewhere.
To Opalcat, long commutes are a fact of life in Toronto - it always seems to work out that you work on the opposite side of the city from where you live and little tiny things can throw your commute time off wildly. Talk to your employer about being able to leave early if you arrive early. ie, leave your start time at 9:30 and plan your commute to arrive at 9:00 so you’re never late. If they won’t go for that stock up on really good books and sit and read so you’re not arriving super early. The few times that things are wildly out of whack and you are actually late - well there’s very little you can do to prevent those mornings. Call and let them know (if you’ve got a hands free for your phone) or just apologize when you arrive with a description of how horrible traffic was.
Well, let’s see: because of the geometry of the intersection leaving my property, I pretty much have no choice but to turn right, as visibility is poor if I want to go straight (or turn left) across 5 lanes of traffic. Thus I have to turn right, turn right again, go down and make a u-turn, and then come back the other way to reach my workplace.
Which is right across the street from my apartment. 
[I rarely walk given how the drivers here roll through right-turns-on-red without even making a pretense of stopping.]
I’d just like to thank you for pointing out something that was a quick aside to a subject that was raised by someone else, that i acknowledged was off topic, and that i was not intending to bring up again in the thread. It’s lucky you did that, or all hell might have broken out, because i never knew i could start a new thread all of my own.
The only solution I can think of is get a GPS that keeps track of traffic conditions.
Boston has a SigAlert page, too.
Admittedly, checking before you leave home doesn’t help if traffic suddenly gets worse while you’re on the road, but at least you can look and see if things are starting to look red on the map.
This only works for freeways, though, not surface main streets, so if you take those you might be out of luck.
I didn’t notice that the OP was in Boston. Is public transportation a possibility?
Yep, lot’s, unless she’s commuting far out of the city.
I live in Southern NH and heard there may be a new busline going from Manchester to Portsmouth. Unfortunately, from the bus depot to my office is a good 5+ miles, so that won’t do me much good :mad: .
The 2 lines I take most often do fill up during peak hours. It’s almost certain that if you’re in a 2-seat row, you’ll have to share, and usually the 3-seat rows fill up as well. So why not move your stuff right away rather than letting things clog up with the constant routine of: person gets on, shuffles down aisle. Stops at a seat, causing everyone behind them to stop. Asks seated person to move stuff off extra seat. Seated person sighs, then slooooooowly moves items. Next commuter shuffles 2 seats down. Stops at a seat, causing everyone behind them to stop…
Funnily enough, after posting in this thread, I took the regular subway home. Evidently the guy sitting next to me had enormous balls because he had to sit with his legs splayed out, encroaching on the seats on wither side of him.
I generally like my job, but I loathe the commute in the winter. It is only 20 miles and it usually takes 25 minutes when all is well, but add snow to the mix and my commute is as long as 2 hours. Last winter was terrible, with at least one snowstorm/2 hour commute each week it seemed. I get so angry doing 10 mph all the way home on the interstate. This winter I might just sleep at work if it snows.
Ah yes. I get that it might be uncomfortable to squish your legs together, but there is a happy medium placement of your legs, guys. I don’t appreciate feeling some strange guys thighs pressing against mine so forcefully that I am sitting at an angle because I’m being pushed on.
And you lady, with the bigass bag… I get it. We’re in New York, we don’t have a car to keep our crap in so we need to haul everything around with us, but seriously. Put it on your lap or at your feet, not on the seat next to you. Do you somehow not think the bus/subway won’t fill up on a weekday morning?
Currently I drive to work since I’m going to a NJ suburb, but that’s a different slice of hell…
My commute’s not particularly bad, as far as time or distance are concerned. It’s between 9 and 10 miles long, and takes me about 20-25 minutes each way.
What makes me all stabby is that during rush hour, people seem to forget anything they ever knew about traffic laws, signs, and courtesy. This includes pedestrians.
A “left lane ends” sign? Of course that means speed up in the left lane to do a squeeze in merge at the last second on the shoulder. Yield sign? To these bozos, it means that you go ahead of traffic exiting the freeway, making them slam on their brakes. Green light on a 40 mph street? That means that they should ride their bikes out into traffic. A crosswalk 10 yards away? That means to cross across the green light away from the crosswalk.
That’s what kills me about my commute- the other cretins who are totally oblivious of the traffic rules, regulations and customs. I can have a terrific commute go to shit because I’m almost hit by some fool who failed to yield on the freeway exit. (which happens damn near daily).
Not from where I am. I’m about 45 minutes west of Boston, and I’d have to take a train all the way into Boston, then another train (maybe two) back out to a different suburb to get to where I work. I neither live nor work in Boston itself. It would take much longer and be prohibitively expensive to take public transportation to work. (Plus I’d have to pay to park my car at the train station, etc…)
Ha! I used to have to walk downstairs, now I just have to make the 20’ walk from bed to couch.
Okay, I do go into office once every few weeks, but I have no set time to be there, so if I get an early start I can make the 10 mile drive in about 15 minutes. If I hit rush hour, it can take up to 45 minutes.