"I CAN THINK OF ONE JOURNEY THAT NEEDED A CAR THEREFORE ALL JOURNEYS NEED CARS" Jesus

Cargo bikes need to become more common. It would have easily carried a laser printer ... and a second laser printer ... and your groceries for the week ... and a kitchen appliance.

Edit: Here are the examples from the Not Just Bikes video on cargo bikes:

https://youtu.be/rQhzEnWCgHA?t=470

I gotta hand it to you, kid, you're the perfect specimen why communities like fuck cars exist, and why nothing is changing.

Even presented with a fucking wishing well you cannot come up with anything but "CAaAaR", because your imagination spans from wall to wallpaper.

You could have imagined and wished for e.g. a working infrastructure of cargo bike sharing, but nope!, car it is!

You don't understand why people hate cars, you're part of the reason people hate cars.

I don't have money, I don't make money, so I couldn't get an Uber/Lyft/Taxi (Not to mention that we don't have taxis where I live).

Ah, a car is free, of course, it just drops out of nowhere and runs on unicorn dust. Tonight, please ask mommy and daddy what they're paying for their car(s). Full cost: down payment, monthly payments, fuel, repairs, insurance, loss of value, everything.

I'm gonna tl;dr it for you: if you cannot afford a taxi/uber/whatever even once, you cannot afford a car. There, that was easy, wasn't it?

I ruled a bike out as an option as I CANNOT take a bike onto a school bus, so I can get to school.

I thought the printer was just 3 miles away? Did it ever occur to you you could have just gone home, pick up the cargo bike, ride the 3 miles to the printer which literally takes 10 minutes and pick it up?

i mean this is why we invented carts lol

That's such a contrived example why would we even bother with it?

Typically when people purchase or obtain items that they need to transport home or to someplace, they do some sort of planning ahead. Also, when I was a kid and needed transportation I typically could just ask an adult to help out with this. Or, another option would be to ask the school to hold the object until you could arrange transportation.

In any case, three miles is not a particularly long distance to traverse, and as you pointed out above you were actually able to walk that distance while carrying it. Well laser printers are somewhat heavy, I'm sure it was a little annoying to carry and you probably had to stop several times and rest. By myself had to carry 30 lb of lumber about 3 mi home from the lumber store years ago when I didn't have a car. And yes I was able to manage.

However, cargo bicycles exist and are quite popular in many parts of the world including the United States and can carry up to 400 lbs, so it is not true that the only means of transporting moderately weighty items is by automobile.

In fact, I would be willing to bet that you would not even need a cargo bicycle but a normal bicycle with a rear rack and a couple of bungee cords would probably suffice. I know this because I got away without having a bicycle for 6 years as an adult American in a city and even went bicycle camping a few times with my friends.

Taxi? wheelbarrow? Cart? Steal a shopping cart?

I used to say things like this when I lived without a car, but it took me way too long to realize other people walking to the grocery would take a taxi/Uber home. It makes it a lot easier to carry the load and it’s not too expensive in one direction for a short distance