*hug* It is a very good service, but probably not so good for my agoraphobia when I can just get doordash to do my shopping for me or bring me food. I haven't been to the grocery store since October. and the grocery store was one of the only places I went to.
I can somewhat relate about the grocery-shopping. I don't precisely have agoraphobia, but at the start of the pandemic I stopped going to all the big chain grocery stores I formerly frequented and to which I drove and switched to small locally-owned walking-distance grocers...and since then I just feel really uncomfortable when I think about my previous grocery stores -- or ANY big chain store -- and maybe I will never go to any of those again.
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Edited (Unintentionally left off the shared hug when I first hit "post") 2023-01-20 20:17 (UTC)
I can't ever go into a Walmart supercenter at all, so I kinda agree with you here! Big stores are just... big. and scary to me lol
Thank you for listening. I hope you are comfortable, wherever you choose to go. I wish we had small stores within walking distance, it would probably help me a lot.
You are in my thoughts since I first encountered your dS fic when I first found online fandom community. Now I am concerned that you say you have no small stores within walking-distance...that's a hard thing for me to imagine (I live in a suburb of the place where Fraser first came on the trail of the killers of his father).
Living in a neighborhood with shops and such sounds so nice! I barely know my neighbors' names or even what they look like (except for maybe two of them) because our houses are a little spread out. I wave at familiar autos that come down my dead-end road if I'm outside, and I usually see a hand wave back, and that's the end of it.
That makes you the second of my fan-friends to tell me they live where the houses are a bit spread out and that they live at the end of a dead-end road. I don't know where you live, but the other fan-friend lives in Oregon.
I know the neighbors directly on either side of me and I know the neighbors directly across the alley. Two of those sets of neighbors are friendly acquaintances and one set has become close friends (like, if we weren't neighbors we would still make it a point to hang out together).
If you comment back to this and it takes me a while -- maybe a LONG while -- to comment back I don't want you to think I've abandoned you in mid-convo. I'm participating tonight and tomorrow in the real-time fanworks-creating challenge over at Firewhiskey Fic and that's where most of my online attention is going to be placed now.
I hear you. When the pandemic started i switched to grocery delivery and ordering anything else from Amazon. Now i get hives every time i have to shop in person but my budget trumps my agoraphobia. I miss Door Dash!
With DashPass it's not TOO much more expensive than going out and getting the stuff myself, paying for gas, etc. And leaving the house lately makes me a sobbing wreck so. Yeah, I've been choosing 'convenience' over the extra money though I should be more frugal, especially on a fixed income.
I'm feeling similar (not the same, but similar) about having let myself start taking rideshares to work instead of public transit. It's so hard to get out the door without knowing someone is waiting for me. And so nice to not face walking up the steep stairs out of the subway. But I haven't yet reckoned with the shift in my budgeting.
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Thank you for listening. I hope you are comfortable, wherever you choose to go. I wish we had small stores within walking distance, it would probably help me a lot.
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Living in a neighborhood with shops and such sounds so nice! I barely know my neighbors' names or even what they look like (except for maybe two of them) because our houses are a little spread out. I wave at familiar autos that come down my dead-end road if I'm outside, and I usually see a hand wave back, and that's the end of it.
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I know the neighbors directly on either side of me and I know the neighbors directly across the alley. Two of those sets of neighbors are friendly acquaintances and one set has become close friends (like, if we weren't neighbors we would still make it a point to hang out together).
If you comment back to this and it takes me a while -- maybe a LONG while -- to comment back I don't want you to think I've abandoned you in mid-convo. I'm participating tonight and tomorrow in the real-time fanworks-creating challenge over at Firewhiskey Fic and that's where most of my online attention is going to be placed now.
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I'm feeling similar (not the same, but similar) about having let myself start taking rideshares to work instead of public transit. It's so hard to get out the door without knowing someone is waiting for me. And so nice to not face walking up the steep stairs out of the subway. But I haven't yet reckoned with the shift in my budgeting.
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