Anyone else get really curious about where each individual car on the road is going? I mean not during peak hour, then you can fit them into the societal narrative of workdays, I mean like 10am on a Friday in a random suburb, 6am on a Sunday, where is everyone going?
Same when I go past a café in a residential area on a weekday that's full of people. What are your stories? What are you all up to?
The world is so complex, and what I know is so limited.
@jroper I'm always thinking that about busy places on weekdays - cafes, or the Fitzroy Pool.I mean I know why I'm there, but why are they?
@timrichards yes! I'm always doing things at weird times because I'm a PhD student, but there aren't that many of us (nevermind that can afford to prop up a local café)... Nor writers. Or maybe there are?
@timrichards Yeah I can think through just the people I go to the climbing gym in mid-morning with and come up with a list. Hospitality, shiftwork, freelance, stay at home dads, programmers who just tell people they're coming to work at 12 if they feel like it.
The relevance to my work ofc is urban transport that doesn't just cater to peak times or some kind of 'standard' trips.
@jroper I live in the Melbourne CBD and we are always complaining that weekend public transport needs to start earlier and be more frequent – as there are loads of people coming in here on weekends. But the powers that be sometimes still seem convinced that the CBD is quiet on weekends - which it really isn't.
@jroper I suspect from experience that there are way more people working non-standard hours than we think. Freelance workers are particularly invisible because they work from home for themselves.