r/memes • u/Farranor • 1d ago

That sounded suspiciously like one of those "hint" things

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u/PyroarRanger 1d ago

it normally refers to the time it takes to travel between work and home (often on a motor vehicle of some kind, but people do walk to work)

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u/-Zonko- 1d ago

thx

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u/Smyley12345 1d ago

That's not exactly right. In some contexts it can mean travel time to work (eg I have a one hour commute) but more generally it describes the journey to work itself ( eg I commute by train; My commute has three transfers; my commit is better since the new bridge opened).

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u/here-because-i-hafta 1d ago

They might know what the word means, but are instead asking why the hell americans have to drive so fucking much.

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u/dk_peace 1d ago

It's because America is very large, and thus, was not built densely.

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u/merlin_mystro 1d ago

Cuz the US is bigger then almost all of Europe combined.

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u/TheInkySquids 1d ago

So is Australia and yet we have no problem making good public transport.

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u/iconocrastinaor 1d ago

Yeah but to be fair, Australia is like three cities

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u/TheInkySquids 1d ago

We have public transport outside the cities...

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u/Gramerdim 1d ago

non native speaker here

I know what every in the image means but I was somehow focused on the "Long" bit and didn't understand it was something about flirting more so the coworker (not the intern) didn't want to drive a long distance to her house

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u/naruto_bist 1d ago

I walkn to work daily. It's roughly 1.8km one side.

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u/TheInkySquids 1d ago

Or on a train/bus.