<p>Most of my friends are like me, without cars. I only know a handful of people with cars…</p>
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<p>Then it sounds like you have a fairly large population of potential people to share a ride with. Surely, if you ask at the beginning of the week, you can find someone who’d like to stop by the grocery store and is willing to chip in $5 or someone who’s friend is giving them a ride. It might just require more organization and effort on your part. </p>
<p>If you don’t have enough friends to find a ride/find someone to share a ride, I’d point out that the higher rate you’re being asked to pay results from the fact that others receive a discount because of social capital–you’re making up for this with financial capital. And that’s entirely reasonable.</p>
<p>I don’t think you get it – 99% of the time, the shuttle service my school provides works for me. Only when it gets canceled is it a problem, and that rarely happens…and it’s not something that they do in advance, you go, wait where it picks up/drops off, it doesn’t come, someone calls security, and only then do you find out it’s canceled.</p>
<p>A cost you pay for relying on the shuttle is the risk that, in that 1%, the shuttle doesn’t come and that rectifying the situation on a short timescale has its own inconvenient costs. But I think the push-back you’re getting is that, from a macro-level perspective, the cost ($10) isn’t unreasonable. Particularly, in this case, because it may not represent the market price, but just one individual’s willingness to provide and value of providing a ride.</p>
<p>So, yes, it sucks–but it isn’t the big deal it’s been made out to be in this thread. And the extent to which it sucks isn’t especially unusual or noteworthy.</p>
<p>Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinions. And my opinion is that $10 is way too much for a trip to the grocery store, and I would absolutely never pay that much.</p>
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<p>By posting your opinion on this forum, you clearly invite others’ opinions. Frankly, your hard-line opinion invites the criticism it has received: in the view of many, it’s less than congruent with economic and social reality. Your replies rebut these responses only by repeating, with increasing emphasis, your emotional experience in the situation. Thus, there doesn’t seem to be anything more to discuss. While one may argue that your feelings are unreasonable, one cannot argue that they are not your feelings.</p>