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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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The only things I have delivered to me are packages and envelopes through the mail.
Granted, I am GenX, but I can’t recall a single time in the last half a decade where I’ve had anything like food delivered. Or used the services of any kind of gig company.
And I simply can’t think of any benefit of doing so. It’s horrendously expensive, and simply not worth the expense.
You're GenX and have never had a pizza or Chinese food delivered!? Do you live in the sticks? Town I live in now has never had a delivery restaurant (weird for a tourist town) and nobody runs Uber eats or whatever, but when I was a kid in suburbia delivery food was super common, mostly pizza and Chinese.
No, I have always phoned ahead to order, but I have always picked up the order personally.
The savings having done so have always been more than the fuel spent to retrieve the order.
I'm not against delivering services. Just gig jobs.
Lots of people really need these. Like disabled people and the elderly.
But those two groups are least able to afford it.
I found out my family were having fast food delivered by some service, and stomped on that immediately. Walk your lazy ass the two blocks to the pizza shop.
There are definitely use cases for delivery services, like the whole family having COVID and such.
Even at my sickest, I was always able to make something to eat, even if it was simple like cracking open some of my own canned spaghetti sauce and boiling some noodles.
Being sick has always been a wholly inadequate argument for not making something healthy to eat.
Now, an evening where a sit-down supper would be impossible - Halloween being our only consistent pizza night - that is a different story. But those happen only a few days a year.
Getting food delivered is handy when I'm looking after my kids by myself, but not something I'm in the habit of using, probably use it once per year
I had to use uber once in the last year when the taxi failed to turn up and I needed to get to the airport.
I avoid them for the most part as I can find other ways of doing things cheaper
I mean food delivery is a totally legitimate good thing to have, getting food when you can’t is whats what its for.
The problem is people who absolutely have the means to get their own stuff relying on it almost exclusively just because they are lazy.
Uber bought the biggest taxi company in Denmark and the only one operating in my city. There's no way around them...
Backstory is that Uber was banned from the market due to their gig model (and lobbying from taxi companies), so they returned half a decade/decade later in the only way they could. Funny how other gig models like food delivery isn't outlawed the same way.
For me at least, the people at my city's taxis are sometimes quite rude to me, whereas I've never had an issue with getting Uber. I feel a lot safer with them than with the regular taxis.