DY, I was not making that assumption. I was merely trying to point out that making early shabbos is sometimes a necessity (such as Gateshead) and somehow this whole thread turned into why some people live in the real world and others apparently don’t.
Popa, my father works IN business, and on Fridays he works at home because otherwise he wouldn’t get to leave the office until five minutes before shabbos – is that an option for you? I’m really trying to be open-minded and I really am NOT clueless (the opposite, actually) but for some reason people don’t get that.
DY – your comment “The point is that a person should not think that the world is limited to his/her experiences” is exactly what I was trying to make when asking Popa to stop welcoming me to the real world.