Gratification

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Me on the East Coast: Oh no! I am out of my favorite breakfast foods. Whatever will I do? Haul my bicycle down two flights of stairs so I can bike more than a mile to the nearest grocery store? But it is summer, and hot and sticky, and this will make me late for work! Maybe I will launch a public transit expedition to grocery store #2 after work, and hope I get a bus with working AC.

Me in San Francisco: Oh no, no bananas! I will walk five blocks and get bananas.