So just how lazy are people nowadays? (1 Viewer)

[DallasDMac]

Let me set the scene first. My subdivison is one street ending in a cul-de-sac. 18 houses total. So there is no through traffic whatsoever other than the occasional landscaper, bug guy or yard service. Typical cookie cutter setting. Small lots (.25 acres or less) with houses close together side by side. Community mailbox area.

So, I am outside doing my weekend yard work and I see my neighbor across the street open his garage door. You have his house, then two more, cross our single street, and you are at the community mailboxes. Probably less than 200 ft from his house to the mailbox. But he gets in his big ol' Ford pickup, backs out, and drives to the mailbox. I just figure he's picking it up on his way out somewhere. But nope, he gets his mail, turns around, drives back, pulls in his garage, and closes the door.

Seriously? How lazy do you have to be that you open your garage and drive the distance of three houses to pick up your mail? And before someone harbors any thoughts of hidden disabilities, he has no handicap plates, no disabled tags, nothing like that. Works full time. So no, he doesn't have that excuse to fall back on. Fact is, he's just pathetically lazy.

This probably isn't the laziest thing I've ever seen if I take the time to think back on it. But it was good enough that it provided impetus for the thread. So, what's the laziest thing you've sen lately? Or ever? Knowing the FFA, there has to be some good stories in here.

 

[sho nuff]

:tldr:

 

[Jim11]

I see a lot of people using motorized vehicles at the grocery store, who don't look like they're disabled. Some pretty obviously need to, but many don't appear to.

 

[shader]

Sometimes I sit on my couch and I yell for my kids to come downstairs to get me a beer that is like ten feet away.

 

[DallasDMac]

Sometimes I sit on my couch and I yell for my kids to come downstairs to get me a beer that is like ten feet away.

Well yea, but that's the entire point of spawning offspring. No one buys a truck just to pick up the mail.

 

[fantasycurse42]

I'll masturbate over sechs with the wife sometimes bc I'd rather please one person rather than two.

edit: thinking about it, this makes me more selfish than lazy

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Maybe he was planning on picking it up on the way out somewhere but got an important piece of mail that he needed to deal with right away.

 

[Apple Jack]

Maybe he got a jimmy tap and walking was excruciating.

 

[[scooter]]

Was it a cool truck, though?

 

[mr roboto]

Was it a Raptor?

 

[belljr]

I text my wife if I'm in the basement and she's upstairs if I need to ask her something 

 

[tommyboy]

I would have used my drone

 

[Johnny Rock]

Is the truck his everyday driver? If he hasn't driven it in a while maybe he just wanted to start it up, get the fluids moving. You'd think he'd want to take it for a spin though.

Maybe warming the oil a tad before doing an oil change in the garage? Did he let it idle for a few minutes afterward to raise the oil temperature?

 

[IC FBGCav]

Is the truck his everyday driver? If he hasn't driven it in a while maybe he just wanted to start it up, get the fluids moving. You'd think he'd want to take it for a spin though.

Maybe warming the oil a tad before doing an oil change in the garage? Did he let it idle for a few minutes afterward to raise the oil temperature?

Was going to post this, every few weeks I drive my pickup that is an extra vehicle around the block to keep the seals lubricated.

 

[DallasDMac]

Is the truck his everyday driver? If he hasn't driven it in a while maybe he just wanted to start it up, get the fluids moving. You'd think he'd want to take it for a spin though.

Maybe warming the oil a tad before doing an oil change in the garage? Did he let it idle for a few minutes afterward to raise the oil temperature?

I believe it's their only vehicle.

 

[The General]

I'm guessing he's a husky fella.

 

[Thorpe]

My block is similar to yours with a cul-de-sac and no thru traffic  I see people drive their kids 3 houses to the bus stop and let the kids wait in the car until the bus comes.  Then they drive home, so it isn't like they were going somewhere anyways.

 

[AAABatteries]

I'll masturbate over sechs with the wife sometimes bc I'd rather please one person rather than two.

edit: thinking about it, this makes me more selfish than lazy

I'm sure all our wives are perfectly fine with us taking this route occasionally. 

 

[Dexter]

Maybe he's hurt and driving is the best way to pick up the medication that just arrived?

 

[freakinback]

Protip: Mind you ####### business. 

 

[parasaurolophus]

Maybe someone shortpaid an invoive and he went back in pissed off to call about it. 

 

[cstu]

Maybe he got a jimmy tap and walking was excruciating.

Wtf is a jimmy tap?

 

[The General]

It's hard to walk without spilling a Big Gulp.

 

[James Daulton]

Yes, we are incredibly lazy.  Only through mad advances in modern medicine has our life expectancy significantly increased over the last 70 years.  We move so much less and eat so much worse.  Or just maybe, moving and eating right are simply overrated.

 

[jomar]

I am going to say that most likely he didn't want to have to talk to any neighbors who he might run into if he walked.  Possibly even you.  I will drive 5-6 houses down to a neighbors house because of this.  

 

[Wrigley]

This reminds of the guy that circles the gym parking lot for 30 minutes waiting for a prime spot, only to go into the gym to do cardo

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

I'm so lazy that when I went the sex I send my wife for a massage so half the foreplay is already done when she gets home.

 

[mr roboto]

Yes, we are incredibly lazy.  Only through mad advances in modern medicine has our life expectancy significantly increased over the last 70 years.  We move so much less and eat so much worse.  Or just maybe, moving and eating right are simply overrated.

Nah. The pendulum is swinging. We are close to a generation living less long than their parents. 

 

[dwarfboy]

I had a friend as a child that would ride a John Deere riding lawnmower all over the neighborhood instead of his bicycle.  Everybody else rode bicycles which were much faster, especially going downhill and we had some seriously big hills.  The lawnmower's top speed was a little faster than regular walking pace so we always had to wait for him to catch up.

 

[tommyboy]

Protip: Mind you ####### business. 

Found your neighbor

 

[James Daulton]

Nah. The pendulum is swinging. We are close to a generation living less long than their parents. 

Ah, so our bad habits have finally outpaced medical science.  Based on my infrequent trips to Walmart, this is entirely plausible.

 

[Porkchop Express]

I've never seen that. I've never seen anybody drive their garbage down to the street and bang the hell out of it with a stick. I-I've never seen that.

 

[PIK95]

I have called in sick rather then face traffic.

I'll use a towel or something handy to try and reach an item (think hungry hippo drag back) a few feet away from me rather then get up.

Don't try that with a glass of water.

 

[elguapo07]

I had a friend as a child that would ride a John Deere riding lawnmower all over the neighborhood instead of his bicycle.  Everybody else rode bicycles which were much faster, especially going downhill and we had some seriously big hills.  The lawnmower's top speed was a little faster than regular walking pace so we always had to wait for him to catch up.

Was his name Bobby and did he play foosball for the Mud Dogs?

 

[DallasDMac]

Protip: Mind you ####### business. 

So wear blinders and never look up? Because other than being outside and seeing this occur, I don't really think I was being overly invasive. But sorry to hear I insulted you and your chosen lifestyle.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

I'm so lazy, I took lessons on a player piano.  Why, I'm like a rug on Valium, I'm talking lazy. 

Soo lazy.

 

[xulf]

He probably was hanging out pantsless and didn't want to get dressed up to impress his overly snoopy neighbor.

 

[DallasDMac]

He probably was hanging out pantsless and didn't want to get dressed up to impress his overly snoopy neighbor.

Could be. Strikes me as the type that's way to lazy to put on pants. Probably wearing slippers too. Likely used one of these too retrieve the mail so he wouldn't have to leave the vehicle.

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

On a scale from 1 to 10, with 5 being the median, I'd say people are generally somewhere around a 5 for the most part.

 

[captain_amazing]

On a scale from 1 to 10, with 5 being the median, I'd say people are generally somewhere around a 5 for the most part.

That's an average way to look at it.

 

[offdee]

On a scale from 1 to 10, with 5 being the median, I'd say people are generally somewhere around a 5 for the most part.

This scale needs more detailed descriptions. Thx.

 

[[scooter]]

On a scale from 1 to 10, with 5 being the median, I'd say people are generally somewhere around a 5 for the most part.

This would have been more clever if you'd said 0-to-10.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Woman on top, because I'm lazy.

 

[renesauz]

This reminds of the guy that circles the gym parking lot for 30 minutes waiting for a prime spot, only to go into the gym to do cardo

These people have always driven me crazy. Used to have a couple of friends that would spend 15 minutes cruising around the parking lot looking for a great spot, when thay could have parked at the first spot they found and walked an extra 50 or 80 feet in all of 90 seconds. I'd understand that if using a cane or something, but we're talking about relatively healthy sub 40 year old people here. Assinine!

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Let's be real here.  Has anyone ever seen people drive around the gym parking lot for 15-30 minutes?  That seems like some pretty crazy hyperbole.  What were you doing in the parking lot for 30 minutes anyway?

 

[Frostillicus]

I have a neighbor who I see regularly driving her car to walk her dog.

 

[Zow]

That's an average way to look at it.

Don't be mean. 

 

[cstu]

Reminds me of this sto

 

[Glass Joe]

I have a neighbor who I see regularly driving her car to walk her dog.

How does this work - does the dog walk in the street? Or does she drive on the wrong side of the road?

 

[Wrigley]

Let's be real here.  Has anyone ever seen people drive around the gym parking lot for 15-30 minutes?  That seems like some pretty crazy hyperbole.  What were you doing in the parking lot for 30 minutes anyway?

Not parking in the first open spot equates to 30 minutes looking for a spot, it's called science