You are forgiven; I also drove to the shops yesterday for some (larger-scale) Xmas shopping and was pleasantly surprised that the traffic/parking wasn’t worse… It’s a case of horses for courses. The day before I had biked to pick up a few items from the supermarket and was pleased to see the array of other bikes there for people also doing their groceries the simple way (in fact, it’s getting darn hard to find a bike park some days…)