Commuting - It's time for lunch!!

I ride my bike to work almost every morning, and I don't bring my lunch to work with me due to the fact that I live so close to where I work. Today during lunch I had time to ride my bike to the book store to buy two books for my wife (I'm sure I'll read them also); I then went home to have lunch with my wife and son. After lunch I took the longer way back to work, and I was back in the office one minute before my lunch hour was over.

What do you have time to do during your lunch hour?

lunch hour? what's that?

Seriously I work my own schedule and often odd hours

Originally posted by A F Baker
What do you have time to do during your lunch hour?

A lunch hour would be an interesting concept. Mine is normally a lunch 10 minutes or something where I totally stuff my face while still sitting at a computer at university. Someone in that place has been having a few brain explosions lately and accepted more people than they could ever provide facilities for (and no, there aren't that many intelligent people around here).

If you give up a computer you may not get another one for 3 hours. I don't have that kind of time to waste.

Chris

I have three computers at my job. This is my first job where I get to take such a long lunch. :thumbup:

I don't have a specific lunch hour or amount of time, but if I can I eat lunch and go through BF!:D

Originally posted by aerobat
I don't have a specific lunch hour or amount of time, but if I can I eat lunch and go through BF!:D
Yes, man does not live by bread alone! :D

Lunch hour: that's when everybody brings in their sick pet that has been sick for 10 days, as an emergency. I usually try to eat my peanut butter sandwich as fast as possible, just so I can eat it. We rarely get breaks. That's one of the reasons I enjoy my ride home so much, it's often my first break of the day.

The days that I bring my lunch I walk to a small park nearby and enjoy a relaxing lunch before heading back to the grind. :(

On the days I don't bring lunch, I spend the morning flipping a coin trying to decide if I should chance eating at Burger King :eek:, Subway, or a nearby chinese restaurant. Those are my only choices. :cry:

Lunch hour, a walk around downtown, maybe hop on light rail (MAX (http://www.tri-met.org/max)) for a quick trip to the best bookstore in the world (Powells (http://www.powells.com)) where I shamelessly read the magazines, or out to lunch at any number of places. I need the full hour, with sitting in-front of this cathode ray tube for 8 hours+ a day my eyes, back, wrist need a break!

Just out of curiosity, do the streetcar tracks catch cyclist's wheels there often? When I was much younger, I used to visit my grandmother in Philadelphia, where streetcars were everywhere, and often visit Toronto these days. From my many visits in Toronto, I have noticed that cyclists do strange things to avoid hitting the streetcar tracks wrong, except for MTB'ers and a few messengers who buck the trend and ride around T town's streets with 43mm wide slicks.

Working construction, we take one 15 minute break after 4 hours, then "roll up" after 8. Starting at 5am, I'm starting my commute home about the time you guys are coming back from lunch.