I rode with my friends to a mutual friends wedding. After waiting a bit during the reception we discussed leaving and the idea cane up of running downtown for a drink. From where we were, its like 10 minutes to downtown, but no we have to drive 40 minutes to their house to change before driving 30 minutes back downtown to have one drink and leave.

FFS

    • Facebones@reddthat.comOP
      33·
      2 months ago

      Its a car centric attitude I don’t understand. Driving absurdly out of your way wasting an hour and a half cause why not hurrdurr car.

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        They drove for almost an hour because they had to in order to change and not potentially ruin an extremely expensive suit or dress. If they lived downtown they would have just went to their house, changed, then walked back out.

        • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
          41·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, this is a weird hill for op to die on. I’m no fan of cars, but riding a bike in a tux or dress sounds like a recipe for disaster.

        • Facebones@reddthat.comOP
          2·
          2 months ago

          If they wore particularly expensive stuff, maybe. They weren’t, nor are they particularly concerned about such things, just “comfort.” If we were going out all night it tracks but we literally had one drink and left.

      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        But how would it have been different if you were traveling via public transit? Or walking, or biking? You’d still have to go out of your way to get home. I suppose you could have split up, but then even if there wasn’t a bus from the reception to downtown, you could have taken your own uber.

        I completely understand being frustrated by going out of your way. I just don’t know how it’s related to your mode of transport.

        • Facebones@reddthat.comOP
          1·
          2 months ago

          Its the car centric mindset of just jetting all over town for the fuck of it more or less. As I mentioned elsewhere, if we were ““going out”” I’d understand changing, but we had one drink and left (which was the plan from the jump.) we could have been on the way out of the bar by the time we left their house if we’d just gone there.

          Yeah its equally dumb on a bus but most people on public transit wouldn’t do that because it IS silly for one drink.