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Not a great bus system, even though my suburb borders Minneapolis, it's like they think we're in the sticks.
Sick of car repair costs and had 2 bad experiences when I decided no more for now.
Being an environmentalist whacko, I can't stand the thought of buying a new car with all the greenhouse gas emissions involved in making it. I know that makes me sick nut whacko flake kook and ding-dong, but here we are, it is what it is. I don't have the gonads to risk buying a used car. So I put that off year after year after year.
Grocery shopping is interesting. I combine an exercise regimen of walking about 50 minutes to a bus stop and then taking the bus the rest of the way. (I'm over 70 and it's getting harder and harder). Getting back, I take the bus to as close to home as I can, but that's 2/3 miles from home. So I walk that distance with $100 to $170 in groceries -- some stuffed in a backpack, plus 4 heavy bags.
It's the only serious exercise I can motivate myself to do anymore. Another one of those "it is what it is" things.
I'm working on hanging 2 of those bags from my shoulders with some success. They have a tendency to slip off my shoulders and it's a real bear getting them back on the shoulders and to stay for a while. I'm working on a strap with clothespin arrangement to keep the bag from slipping from my shoulders, long story about all the things that go wrong and the things I've tried like simply tying the bags' straps in front, but it still slips off. But it works well when it works well. It's simple in concept, but when a heavy backpack + 2 heavy shoulder bags are involved, it gets harder than it looks.
I'm too cheap and too environmentalist whackadoodle to take Uber/Lyft and I don't get my exercise that way if I did.
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