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this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
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I'm not sure it makes sense, thats like 6 hours of walking one way. Maybe she's speed walking but still how fast could she go?
I'll bet it's a story of "well my car broke down and my job doesn't pay enough to get it fixed, so it was either walk or get fired (and thus lose health insurance and the pay that's keeping a roof over my head)." Seen it enough in my lifetime - a coworker used to walk 4 miles down the highway to his workplace for the same reason.
I'm saying I don't think its feasible whether she would put up with it or not.
If she's walking 12 hours a day for an 8 hour shift, she has 4 hours to sleep and eat? I think someone's exaggerating here or something. I'm leaning towards the story is fake, but I haven't really tried to verify it.
It looks like she only walked home from work, and didn't need to walk both ways. I can't confirm if she was getting full-time hours at work. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/04/gofundme-fedex-worker-darlene-quinn-12-mile-walk/4154337002/
She is likely taking about 4 hours to walk each way.
I had to walk 18km to and from work for a while, but I was (likely) in better shape than her, so the 18 km took me three hours.
Yeah that does make more sense, fair enough! I remember reading about this when it happened back then too.
Walking at six miles an hour is running speed.
I used km in my post, so the speed is about 3.75 miles per hour.