This is naiive and dumb (like a lot of posts in this community).
If you drove to the grocery store, then you almost certainly have more groceries than are going to be comfortable to carry back by hand.
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Sure. It's definitely that, and not that most North American cities are designed expressly to force you to drive even if you want a single cup of coffee or a sandwich or something.
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You can call literally call anyone you know we all have cars here. If you don't know anyone at all you can taxi or Uber. In smaller towns you may even be able to call the police non emergency number and get help from a community officer type employee who has a car and does minor non police related stuff. Many many many things would have to fail before you need to ask a stranger and even in that case you would be hard pressed to not find help within the first couple people you ask.
Your car will not break down, if you just walk to the grocery store.
My point is that this entire situation is a massive systemic failure. You shouldn't have to find yourself in a situation where your car breaking down means you're stuck at the grocery store with no way to get home unless someone deigns to come and get you -- hell, you shouldn't even need to drive to get groceries, any well-designed city would have multiple grocery stores within a few blocks regardless of where you live, and a dense public transit network and/or cycling infrastructure so you can get to the ones that are farther away.
I think it is underappreciated how large the North American continent is with highly concentrated big cities, with vast portions of the land outside of larger cities without public transportation. This includes CA/US/MX as a general comment and not specifically this screenshot in question.
One may have "good" transit in Calgary, Edmonton and Red Deer but what about all those large spaces in between? It's 1.5hrs driving from Calgary To Red Deer with many 10k person cities in the middle, etc. These villages do not have transit systems - cars are how North Americans travel when outside of larger cities. It's why EV (lack of) range is a huge (non)selling point for some people depending where they live.
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Uber exists. They could have easily spun up the app and called for a ride.
Buses also hit grocery stores or surrounding areas, often even in towns with limited public transit.
Uber exists. They could have easily spun up the app and called for a ride.
Clearly a single mom with two kids who can't afford the upkeep on her car doesn't have the money to spend on an Uber ride, or she would've done that already.
The bus network in and around Columbus, Ohio (which is most likely where this happened, based on OOP's location) also doesn't seem to be all that great -- for all you know the nearest bus stop to the grocery store or to their house may well be kilometers away
For all you both know, apparently. You're both arguing your side without much of a basis in fact...seems a little desperate.
Also AAA is very widely used to tow/get a ride when your car breaks down
Doesn't an AAA membership cost money and have limits on how often you can use it each year
Y'all wilding out. Uber, lyft, AAA - those are paid services. If your car is randomly breaking down in a parking lot, you probably don't have a lot of money, people with money don't drive unreliable cars. I mean sure, maybe they left the dome light on for hours, but I doubt it.
Yes its insane you can't find affordable housing close to stores. Yes needing a car sucks.
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