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Those are crazy distances! Super impressive to be able to do that (ignoring why it might be necessary)
I'm not sure it makes sense, thats like 6 hours of walking one way. Maybe she's speed walking but still how fast could she go?
I'll bet it's a story of "well my car broke down and my job doesn't pay enough to get it fixed, so it was either walk or get fired (and thus lose health insurance and the pay that's keeping a roof over my head)." Seen it enough in my lifetime - a coworker used to walk 4 miles down the highway to his workplace for the same reason.
I'm saying I don't think its feasible whether she would put up with it or not.
If she's walking 12 hours a day for an 8 hour shift, she has 4 hours to sleep and eat? I think someone's exaggerating here or something. I'm leaning towards the story is fake, but I haven't really tried to verify it.
It looks like she only walked home from work, and didn't need to walk both ways. I can't confirm if she was getting full-time hours at work. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/04/gofundme-fedex-worker-darlene-quinn-12-mile-walk/4154337002/
She is likely taking about 4 hours to walk each way.
I had to walk 18km to and from work for a while, but I was (likely) in better shape than her, so the 18 km took me three hours.
Walking at six miles an hour is running speed.
I used km in my post, so the speed is about 3.75 miles per hour.
Yeah that does make more sense, fair enough! I remember reading about this when it happened back then too.
I live in a neighborhood where this is daily life for most people. But privilege won't believe it unless it happens to themselves.
Well go ahead and educate someone who is apparently too privileged.
If it takes you more than 15 minutes to walk a mile, something is seriously wrong. Until a local plant closed down, my neighbors regularly walked to and from work, about four miles away and worked 10-12 hour shifts.
I'm old and even waking my pet and stopping so they can do their business a few times only takes about 15 minutes, 20 if they're being extra leisurely. This is just daily life for most of us, except the drug dealers and their stables.
I think I did estimate walking time too high by about double. I used to walk/bike to work myself I just didn't give it much thought when I wrote it.
I still think if it was 24 miles a day, that would be a bit extreme but it ended up being 12 per day. Still pretty lengthy but entirely believable.
It happens. I appreciate you being able to admit a mistake. Thanks.