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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 16, 2022 14:11:30 GMT
Drive up everything is a godsend when you have a baby in a car seat and it’s -10° (or 100°+). Even without kids! I once drove 20 minutes out of the way to go to a drive through Dairy Barn instead of the 7-11 5 minutes away where I would have to get out of the car.   LOL! I will neither confirm nor deny that I may have, on one or more occasions, driven *past* my house to do a U turn at the corner so I could drive up to my own mailbox just so I wouldn’t have to get out of the car.   |
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Post by Basket1lady on Jun 16, 2022 14:16:03 GMT
One of our exchange students thought the drive through ATM was super lazy. Why not just walk in and get your money, so easy. I said I thought being able to drive up, never leave my car, get cash and drive off was much easier. He did not agree. I am sure he thought it was the epitome of American laziness and why we are all morbidly obese. (Please note that is said with total sarcasm and eye rolls) Other than that he was an amazing exchange student and we adored him. There are so many reasons people take an easier-for-them way of doing something. Drive up everything is a godsend when you have a baby in a car seat and it’s -10° (or 100°+). This x100! Never mind the weather. Just hauling DS in an out of the car seat twice was a chore and he just didn’t care for it. |
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Post by gracieplusthree on Jun 16, 2022 15:49:50 GMT
On a related note, my SIL will routinely ask her DH (usually) or one of her kids to get up and get her stuff that she could very easily get up and get for herself. In many cases, whatever she is asking the person to do means they would have to go out of their way to do it and it would actually be less effort for her to do it herself. DH and I always look at each other like 🤨 because she does it so often, as in, multiple times over a couple hour span. Example: she might be sitting right in the kitchen, ten feet away from the coffee pot. Her DH might be in an entirely different room, actively doing something or talking with someone, and she will ask HIM to get up, come in there where she is and refill her coffee cup from the pot that’s ten feet away! And he will do it. 🙄 Literally my childhood. My step mom would even have me get up from doing homework to go get her more to drink,or to resweep the floor if she deemed I hadn't done it after school, or anything really. I mean I know she had worked all day(desk job) but I'd been at school all day and came home and cleaned, I'd worked too. |
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Post by peasapie on Jun 16, 2022 16:07:47 GMT
Picking the parking spot closest to the gym.
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Post by casii on Jun 16, 2022 16:35:42 GMT
Picking the parking spot closest to the gym. This one always cracks me up. My DH would be guilty of it too. The man can go from Couch to a 21 minute 5k in 2 weeks, but MUST park the closest to any place he can. |
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Post by Rainy_Day_Woman on Jun 16, 2022 18:06:15 GMT
Our closest Starbucks is not quickly reachable by public transit, maybe they don't drive and really needed coffee  I did order Starbucks once via ubereats for my daughter's birthday, and it cost me almost $35 for 2 drinks. Never again. I do have one- it's probably judgemental though, or at least confuses me. We live in a condo that is 200 metres from the elementary school, quiet street. Many of the parents drive to drop off the kids. Now, if you are going to work, I get it, but they come right back home. It's way more work to go to the underground, start the car, buckle everyone in, drive across the street, find parking. We walk and we are at the school doors before they are out of our building driveway. I guess it confuses me, it seems like more work to drive! |
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Post by Gem Girl on Jun 16, 2022 18:10:06 GMT
On a related note, my SIL will routinely ask her DH (usually) or one of her kids to get up and get her stuff that she could very easily get up and get for herself. In many cases, whatever she is asking the person to do means they would have to go out of their way to do it and it would actually be less effort for her to do it herself. DH and I always look at each other like 🤨 because she does it so often, as in, multiple times over a couple hour span. Example: she might be sitting right in the kitchen, ten feet away from the coffee pot. Her DH might be in an entirely different room, actively doing something or talking with someone, and she will ask HIM to get up, come in there where she is and refill her coffee cup from the pot that’s ten feet away! And he will do it. 🙄 Literally my childhood. My step mom would even have me get up from doing homework to go get her more to drink,or to resweep the floor if she deemed I hadn't done it after school, or anything really. I mean I know she had worked all day(desk job) but I'd been at school all day and came home and cleaned, I'd worked too. I suspect these are more about delighting in being able to control people than they are about laziness. |
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Post by amp on Jun 16, 2022 18:23:50 GMT
First I should mention -- I enjoy being outdoors -- and I love working in my yard. I know a lot of people don't feel this way. That having been said, there are two things that come to mind:
1) Paying someone a lot of money to mow their grass and then going on a walk to get exercise. I use a pushmower to mow my yard -- I save a couple hundred $$$ a month and get lots of exercise.
2) All the freaking golf carts driving around our neighborhood. I walk to visit people. For free. To me, that is really lazy.
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Post by katlady on Jun 16, 2022 18:54:09 GMT
Picking the parking spot closest to the gym. When I went to a big globo gym, I did this. I usually went after work and when I got out of the gym it was already dark. I tried to park where the lights were, which was close to the gym doors. The outer areas of the parking lot did not have lights. If it is daytime, I don’t feel like I need to park close, and usually don’t, but if things look sketchy, I park as close as I can. |
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Post by katlady on Jun 16, 2022 18:57:53 GMT
1) Paying someone a lot of money to mow their grass and then going on a walk to get exercise. I use a pushmower to mow my yard -- I save a couple hundred $$$ a month and get lots of exercise. Guilty! We have a weekly gardener that mows our small lawn. We still do our own planting though. It frees up our time to go to the gym or do other errands. 😆 |
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Post by Skellinton on Jun 16, 2022 18:58:02 GMT
First I should mention -- I enjoy being outdoors -- and I love working in my yard. I know a lot of people don't feel this way. That having been said, there are two things that come to mind: 1) Paying someone a lot of money to mow their grass and then going on a walk to get exercise. I use a pushmower to mow my yard -- I save a couple hundred $$$ a month and get lots of exercise. 2) All the freaking golf carts driving around our neighborhood. I walk to visit people. For free. To me, that is really lazy. My dad, siblings and I all have terrible allergies. Mowing the grass would likely make our faces swell shut. When my husband mows our yard he hustles inside right after he’s done and heads straight to the shower and puts his clothes in the laundry. Even being around him after he mows the grass (if he didn’t do that) would make my eyes swell shut and I would start sneezing and coughing. We can go for long walks outside but if someone’s mowing their yard let me tell you we pull our T-shirts over our noses and mouths and speed walk past, fresh cut grass is the worst. |
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Post by Skellinton on Jun 16, 2022 19:01:13 GMT
And obviously this isn’t something feasible but if it were physically possible I am so lazy I would like someone to come pick up my hair off my head, cut it and style for me and bring it back. I would pay good money for that service once a month. I hate the entire Process of getting my haircut. Scheduling the appointment, driving downtown, parking downtown, having to walk several blocks to get my haircut, having my haircut and sitting there for 45 minutes when I could be doing fun things.
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Post by amp on Jun 16, 2022 19:15:14 GMT
First I should mention -- I enjoy being outdoors -- and I love working in my yard. I know a lot of people don't feel this way. That having been said, there are two things that come to mind: 1) Paying someone a lot of money to mow their grass and then going on a walk to get exercise. I use a pushmower to mow my yard -- I save a couple hundred $$$ a month and get lots of exercise. 2) All the freaking golf carts driving around our neighborhood. I walk to visit people. For free. To me, that is really lazy. My dad, siblings and I all have terrible allergies. Mowing the grass would likely make our faces swell shut. When my husband mows our yard he hustles inside right after he’s done and heads straight to the shower and puts his clothes in the laundry. Even being around him after he mows the grass (if he didn’t do that) would make my eyes swell shut and I would start sneezing and coughing. We can go for long walks outside but if someone’s mowing their yard let me tell you we pull our T-shirts over our noses and mouths and speed walk past, fresh cut grass is the worst. That's a good point, actually. My first husband had allergies to something in the yard when he mowed. I eventually just took over for him because he looked so uncomfortable when he came inside. There was no need for him to go through that when I didn't have any allergies...not even to poison ivy (at that time). |
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Post by greendragonlady on Jun 16, 2022 19:37:07 GMT
I've had my husband close the window when I was chilly. The window right behind my head.
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Post by jenjie on Jun 16, 2022 20:29:21 GMT
First I should mention -- I enjoy being outdoors -- and I love working in my yard. I know a lot of people don't feel this way. That having been said, there are two things that come to mind: 1) Paying someone a lot of money to mow their grass and then going on a walk to get exercise. I use a pushmower to mow my yard -- I save a couple hundred $$$ a month and get lots of exercise. 2) All the freaking golf carts driving around our neighborhood. I walk to visit people. For free. To me, that is really lazy. As someone with back and shoulder issues both requiring PT, I can think of two reasons. I do have two boys at home to mow my grass, but if not I would need to pay somebody. |
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Post by iowgirl on Jun 16, 2022 20:29:31 GMT
I would cry for any kind of food delivery! I have to drive at least a half hour to even get to a restaurant.
The only thing I can get delivered is my mail. LOL Even Amazon takes forever anymore.
When I see people complaining about working 5 days a week, I think they are lazy. That would be amazing~
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Post by katybee on Jun 16, 2022 20:40:43 GMT
I eat Uncrustables while drinking Starbucks I had delivered. So, yeah….
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Post by amp on Jun 16, 2022 21:12:47 GMT
First I should mention -- I enjoy being outdoors -- and I love working in my yard. I know a lot of people don't feel this way. That having been said, there are two things that come to mind: 1) Paying someone a lot of money to mow their grass and then going on a walk to get exercise. I use a pushmower to mow my yard -- I save a couple hundred $$$ a month and get lots of exercise. 2) All the freaking golf carts driving around our neighborhood. I walk to visit people. For free. To me, that is really lazy. As someone with back and shoulder issues both requiring PT, I can think of two reasons. I do have two boys at home to mow my grass, but if not I would need to pay somebody. I think that makes perfect sense, too.  I did have to get my son to mow my grass a couple times when I broke my leg five years ago. The majority of the people on my street are not in pain or have broken legs. But only me, the 29-year-old young man next door, and the 90-year-old couple across the street mow our own yards. Edited to add: I probably shouldn't have posted, I didn't mean to offend anyone...and I apologize, if I did. |
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Post by Zee on Jun 16, 2022 21:23:22 GMT
I would cry for any kind of food delivery! I have to drive at least a half hour to even get to a restaurant. The only thing I can get delivered is my mail. LOL Even Amazon takes forever anymore. When I see people complaining about working 5 days a week, I think they are lazy. That would be amazing~ For sure you work harder than me, but for me it's the stress that makes working 5 days a week feel like it's too much. I do 4 days a week now and it feels like too much. But I like the challenges and would get bored otherwise, so... Here I am sitting in the parking ramp waiting to go into work. 🙄 |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 16, 2022 21:39:10 GMT
Literally my childhood. My step mom would even have me get up from doing homework to go get her more to drink,or to resweep the floor if she deemed I hadn't done it after school, or anything really. I mean I know she had worked all day(desk job) but I'd been at school all day and came home and cleaned, I'd worked too. I suspect these are more about delighting in being able to control people than they are about laziness. I suspect you’re correct. With my SIL, its controlling people with a side of laziness! It’s downright annoying to listen to her yell in her sing-songy way for her DH to do stuff for her that she is perfectly capable of doing herself. Let’s say his name is Jim (it’s not). She will say, “JIIIIIIM, can you bring me a glass of water?” “JIIIIIIM, can you let the cat in?” “JIIIIIIIIM, can you bring me my phone?” Ugh, you get the idea. 🙄 OMG. If I was him, I would totally tell her to get off her butt and do it herself! It’s one thing if someone is already up and heading that way, but that’s not what I’m talking about here. He might be reading something or talking to someone, cooking or whatever, so her requests mean he has to stop whatever he’s doing to do it. She has no disabilities, no serious health concerns that would make sense for her to ask someone for help. She just doesn’t want to get up herself, interrupt her own conversation, etc. and if she can get someone else to do her bidding she will. |
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Post by Gem Girl on Jun 16, 2022 21:45:54 GMT
I suspect these are more about delighting in being able to control people than they are about laziness. I suspect you’re correct. With my SIL, its controlling people with a side of laziness! It’s downright annoying to listen to her yell in her sing-songy way for her DH to do stuff for her that she is perfectly capable of doing herself. Let’s say his name is Jim (it’s not). She will say, “JIIIIIIM, can you bring me a glass of water?” “JIIIIIIM, can you let the cat in?” “JIIIIIIIIM, can you bring me my phone?” Ugh, you get the idea. 🙄 OMG. If I was him, I would totally tell her to get off her butt and do it herself! It’s one thing if someone is already up and heading that way, but that’s not what I’m talking about here. He might be reading something or talking to someone, cooking or whatever, so her requests mean he has to stop whatever he’s doing to do it. She has no disabilities, no serious health concerns that would make sense for her to ask someone for help. She just doesn’t want to get up herself, interrupt her own conversation, etc. and if she can get someone else to do her bidding she will. Or for him to be able to pay attention to anything or anyone else, from the sound of it. His life must be "lovely." Poor guy. |
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Post by jeremysgirl on Jun 16, 2022 23:35:17 GMT
I would cry for any kind of food delivery! I have to drive at least a half hour to even get to a restaurant. The only thing I can get delivered is my mail. LOL Even Amazon takes forever anymore. When I see people complaining about working 5 days a week, I think they are lazy. That would be amazing~ It probably sounds crazy but with mental illness working 5 days a week is so taxing that sometimes I cannot even focus to read or watch a movie after working. I never watch TV because I just can't follow it. I read a lot of audiobooks while I crochet because that is sometimes the only way I can take in new information after a day of work. My life would be exponentially better if I could work 6 hour days. Even 5 days a week would be fine if I could reduce my work day. But I do all brain work. |
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Post by AussieMeg on Jun 16, 2022 23:43:46 GMT
You text someone in the next room instead of getting up to go talk to them. Guilty Your Honour!  |
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Post by peabay on Jun 16, 2022 23:45:32 GMT
Drive up everything is a godsend when you have a baby in a car seat and it’s -10° (or 100°+). Even without kids! I once drove 20 minutes out of the way to go to a drive through Dairy Barn instead of the 7-11 5 minutes away where I would have to get out of the car.   Dairy Barn is the best thing in the entire world. When I moved off Long Island and found out that there weren't Dairy Barns everywhere I wanted to crawl up and die. |
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Post by Crack-a-lackin on Jun 17, 2022 0:06:46 GMT
I eat Uncrustables while drinking Starbucks I had delivered. So, yeah…. you had the Uncrustables delivered too, right? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2022 0:55:19 GMT
I put books on hold that are on the shelf at my local branch. It's 50/50 lazy and anxiety they will get checked out before I can get there.
Sometimes driving home from work I feel so tired that pushing the accelerator seems hard. I wish I had a self driving car. I'm not sleepy just tired from a long day...
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Jun 17, 2022 1:58:54 GMT
I think it’s all about the intent.
If they are very capable of doing it themselves and don’t have any legit reason not to then I consider the reason they don’t want to do it themselves is because they are lazy.
It’s fine to do once in a while but it’s not healthy to make it a habit.
My family thinks I’m lazy.
I have a hard time mentally navigating through certain tasks that’s a breeze for them.
What takes me 20 minutes will take them 2.
I think I try to perfect things so my mind doesn’t find loop holes to ponder about.
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Jun 17, 2022 2:08:52 GMT
People are getting lazy when they don't return their shopping carts to the cart corral. When I see them just sitting out in the lot I have to grab them or else more will follow. Just because someone else did it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. And in the lobby too where we have them. It makes a big energy difference when I’m bringing carts in and have to stop to move the carts left out blocking my path. I get a good momentum going and have to do it again. After so many times, it gets exhausting. Just take 3 more seconds and 1 more foot to push the cart in. |
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Post by tracylynn on Jun 17, 2022 3:30:05 GMT
If I wake up before my alarm goes off, instead of turning my head to see what time it says on my clock, I just ask Alexa LOL Yep. Same. And instead of hitting snooze, I just have Alexa set a timer. |
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Post by muggins on Jun 17, 2022 5:17:49 GMT
The line at our drive through Starbucks is insane at certain times of day. I’m not at all surprised some people would have it delivered.
I’m also lazy sometimes. I own it. Whatever.
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I did have to get my son to mow my grass a couple times when I broke my leg five years ago. The majority of the people on my street are not in pain or have broken legs. But only me, the 29-year-old young man next door, and the 90-year-old couple across the street mow our own yards. 
