The Seamless app has been both our saving grace and our worst enemy since moving to Manhattan. In a city where going to a restaurant makes me lose my rent money, going to a grocery store makes me lose my patience, and cooking in a studio kitchen makes me lose my cool, an app that allows any food to be delivered to our doorstep at the press of a button makes me lose all self-control.<\/p>\n
While the concept of Seamless is pure food heaven brilliance, this comida convenience is starting to seem less convenient and more detrimental. Do I really need access to a bagel sandwich at 11pm? Or pho that comes with an unsettling to-go container of raw beef? Or do I need the ability to have breakfast, lunch, and dinner without lifting more than my iPhone? It seamsmore than likely that I do not.<\/p>\n
I recently had iced-coffee delivered. I pretended that the delivery boy was my personal assistant to make myself feel better about this slothfulness. And every Saturday I have some man down the street fry an egg and put it on a roll for me and then I have another man hop on his bike and deliver me said egg? That is a very high maintenance egg. What came first the laziness or the Seamless?<\/p>\n
Delivery has made eating bad just too damn easy. If curiosity killed the cat, then delivery killed the diet. Sometimes there is even a fight about who will have to get up off the couch to actually retrieve the food from the door, and a new definition of laziness veers its ugly face (and its double chin). Has walking to the door and having to say ‘thank you’ even become too strenuous for me?<\/p>\n
If I keep using Seamless I\u2019m going to have to take out the seams on my clothing. I wonder if they deliver motivation.<\/p>\n
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