How much of a commute do you have?

LottomagicZ4941 · Post by **LottomagicZ4941** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:13 am

I commute 50 miles each way. My wife has a 8 mile commute so I guess on average we are about average.

How far do all of you commute to work?

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Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 2:12 am

LottomagicZ4941 wrote: I commute 50 miles each way. My wife has a 8 mile commute so I guess on average we are about average.

How far do all of you commute to work?

About 3 1/2 miles each way. I could cycle, or even walk.... but at the moment, I drive. This means I get about 36 MPG (Imperial) - what do you get?

Suresh Gupta · Post by **Suresh Gupta** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 3:31 am

LottomagicZ4941 wrote: I commute 50 miles each way. My wife has a 8 mile commute so I guess on average we are about average.

How far do all of you commute to work?

How did you calculate the average?

greydeadhead · Post by **greydeadhead** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 4:31 am

30 miles one way... of course one way where I live means from border to border in the state.. bout 45 minutes drive time when the weather is perfect. when it is not perfect.. can take up to an hour and a half...

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 5:24 am

Around 1/2 a mile

I can't use snow as an excuse not to make it to work :wah:

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 5:36 am

I go out to see clients so it's not a normal commute, but if I go in to the office it's 23miles each way, on a sunday it's about 40minutes to get in , pick the wrong time of day, like morning rush hour anything from an hour and a half up wards, evenings are worse two hours plus. That's why I work from home, thank goodness for technology who needsan office any more. Train is twenty minutes not counting the time waiting for the blasted thing to turn up.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 5:47 am

10 miles , with 14 traffic lights! soooo.... i just turn on the pretty blue and red lights..... :driving:

A Karenina · Post by **A Karenina** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:33 am

lady cop :wah: You know we have always suspected that cops do this.

I am 9 blocks, one big river, and then 2 more blocks from work. I take the bus in, about 10 minutes.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:43 am

A Karenina wrote: lady cop :wah: You know we have always suspected that cops do this.

I am 9 blocks, one big river, and then 2 more blocks from work. I take the bus in, about 10 minutes.
hey, it's only one tiny little perk! LOL..that and free coffee ( i don't eat donuts) :rolleyes:

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:43 am

lady cop wrote: 10 miles , with 14 traffic lights! soooo.... i just turn on the pretty blue and red lights.....

Over here, in the Yook, it's not allowed. Neither is speeding when not on an emergency, either! Sometimes ambulances/police cars have been embarassingly caught on speed^H^H^H^H^afety cameras....

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:51 am

Bill Sikes wrote: Over here, in the Yook, it's not allowed. Neither is speeding when not on an emergency, either! Sometimes ambulances/police cars have been embarassingly caught on speed^H^H^H^H^afety cameras....
i didn't say i was speeding...never! except in hot pursuit....i just said lights on and mysteriously people move over...hmmmm..one day i was driving non-emergency with prisoner to hospital for DUI blood test, and i had lights on but did not realize it. i kept wondering why people were pulling over... LOL

A Karenina · Post by **A Karenina** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:53 am

lady cop wrote: hey, it's only one tiny little perk! LOL..that and free coffee ( i don't eat donuts) :rolleyes:Uh-huh...One tiny little perk while the rest of us get speeding tickets for it. I see how you are!

Edited to add: I didn't see the "not speeding" part until after I posted. Ah well. Assuming gets me nowhere. LOL

Seriously, I could not do the job you do. The police get a bad rap a lot of the time, but the things you all have to face and do for our safety every day...it blows my mind. So thank you...and have some fresh fruit instead of a donut

And be safe out there today!

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:57 am

A Karenina wrote: Uh-huh...One tiny little perk while the rest of us get speeding tickets for it. I see how you are!

Seriously, I could not do the job you do. The police get a bad rap a lot of the time, but the things you all have to face and do for our safety every day...it blows my mind. So thank you...and have some fresh fruit instead of a donut

And be safe out there today!
you are a lovely and kind and sweet thoughtful person! thankyou, and i have to go to bed now!! i'm going to get 4 hours sleep. oh, fresh fruit..i love mangoes!!

A Karenina · Post by **A Karenina** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:03 am

lady cop wrote: you are a lovely and kind and sweet thoughtful person!
Back atcha, lady cop. Muah!

cars · Post by **cars** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 11:31 am

My commute is 22 miles (30 minute ride) one way, not so bad. Until the nasty "New England winter weather" here sets in. We usually get many yearly Nor-Easterner Snow storms that are quite dangerous. Then the commute is in the "hours"!! (2,3, & longer) :-5

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 1:41 pm

LottomagicZ4941 wrote: I commute 50 miles each way. My wife has a 8 mile commute so I guess on average we are about average.

How far do all of you commute to work?

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Oh woe is me... a homemaker's commute... all around the house!

At least you guys will get retirement... my job I always gotta do!!

(Don't worry, I take my "retirement" in small doses here and there!)

When I did work outside the home, I had about a 30 minute commute,

not too bad I guess.

And 1 Hip Hip Hooray to Lady Cop, she can "light me up" any time...

when you're as law-abiding as I, you don't get that sick feeling in

the pit of your stomach when you see red and blues!!

Hawke · Post by **Hawke** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:53 pm

My commute isn't too bad...about 15 minutes from my home to work. Of course, if you add in the time I walk from work to class...and class to class...and class to work, the time goes up a bit

A Karenina · Post by **A Karenina** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 6:55 pm

Threadjack ~

Fyrehawke, what classes are you taking, and what degree are you earning?

Hawke · Post by **Hawke** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 7:38 pm

I'm working towards a Master's degree in Archaeology. Classes are in that vein

~Gives thread back

koan · Post by **koan** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 9:14 am

Used to commute for 45 minute to an hour each way on average when I worked in film. Any longer than that to get to a location and the film company would get the early crew hotel rooms. Even so, if you take a 14-18 hour day and add about two hours to commute then take the two hours off the 8 hours we had to go home sleep and return then do that for a month....this is one reason why I don't work in film anymore.

Now it takes 45 minutes each way on average to get to construction sites and add the loading and unloading of tools everyday. Hard to get a good days work when daycare is only 10 hours (strict) and now the light is gone by 4pm. I'll have to get a strap on head lamp. (How fun would that be!) I could make a Christmas tree coat for work and light up the site. I think what I really need is a housewife to do all the housework and dinners so I can concentrate on beating rush hour and stay til I get a good day in. Why doesn't someone pack MY lunchbox?

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 9:30 am

and time for the Garden? as a muti-tasker i communte thru the french doors to my home office. I can start the Show-time Rotisserie, have phones through-out the place, yes 2-way radios, get some laundry going, answer the phone again. my most important communte is to the Chiropractor, as i have a reverse curve in my upper back, that takes about 35 mins. 1 way, 3 times weekly for about another 6 months....

cars · Post by **cars** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 11:08 am

Paula wrote: and time for the Garden? as a muti-tasker i communte thru the french doors to my home office. I can start the Show-time Rotisserie, have phones through-out the place, yes 2-way radios, get some laundry going, answer the phone again. my most important communte is to the Chiropractor, as i have a reverse curve in my upper back, that takes about 35 mins. 1 way, 3 times weekly for about another 6 months....

French Doors in a "Car Trunk"?

LottomagicZ4941 · Post by **LottomagicZ4941** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:14 am

How I miss college. Back then I had not commute for work. But I did have to commute to the University and then back home to work on my dad's farm.

Really miss the farm life but we are all making more money now that we have sold the farm.

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:26 am

we didn't have to sell the farm, but started other business's with the land..we milked a herd of 100 unitl 1994, we are working just as hard, but making much more money...good for you, if you farmed you know what (hard) work is about...

LottomagicZ4941 · Post by **LottomagicZ4941** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 3:55 pm

We did not totally" have" to sell. The developers offered us twice what they got when they wern't abel to push the developement through.

My Opa made quite a bit on the realestate end of farming. He sold and bought back the same farm and then sold it again. He told the developers the other developers could not get the project through. To this date I have not seen any developement on the last farm that he sold. But houses are going up all over the place here in collorado. Towns that use to have 3K are now having both a King Soopers(SP?) and a safeway croping up.

But these developers made millions on another transaction they pussed through.

We also milked about 100 head:)

Suresh Gupta · Post by **Suresh Gupta** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 8:44 am

KlatunIckto wrote: Commute?

Explain LottomagicZ4941

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:24 am

a mere 15 minutes on a bad traffic day :rolleyes:

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:57 am

Songseeker wrote: Um, I walk from my bedroom to my computer room.

Humph. I hope you don't stub your toe, or bang your shin on the bed-iron, or anything, whilst we mere mortals are getting steamed up driving to work....

:->

greydeadhead · Post by **greydeadhead** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 12:57 pm

or playing zamboni driver thru 8 inches of snow.. now there is an eyeopeing experience at 5am let me tell ya.. :wah:

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weeder · Post by **weeder** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 7:20 am

Bill Sikes wrote: Humph. I hope you don't stub your toe, or bang your shin on the bed-iron, or anything, whilst we mere mortals are getting steamed up driving to work....

:->
Right now.... I live AT my job. Business in located in a seven room house. Bulit in 1929. I decided a couple of weeks ago.. it was crazy to drive homr to The Island at night, I spend so much time here. Its a very strang feeling. BUt I feel quite happy here. I rarely drive anymore.