I see tons of this mentality all over.
I prefer not to walk the 3 miles to work, because it takes a while and I frequently carry a lot of laptops back and forth. Fine, so I take the bus or my scooter.
But when we're going out in the same bar area, we like to leave a little early, walk down here, eat, and walk back. Just over 7 miles round trip. It justifies at least some of the pizza I eat. We love to walk when we can together. We're just ranting to each other about nothing anyway, why not get some exercise and look at our cool city?
When it's not icy out, I like to walk a few miles during lunch. keeps me sane and not too fat!
Drives me nuts when people holding a gym back get on the 1st floor and then get off on the 2nd....