# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380 "2022-09-28T11:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 118
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2342 "2023-03-02T15:57:16Z")
I mean, sure, Athens, Texas, it’s right next to Gun Barrel City…been through it many times. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2343 "2023-03-02T15:59:00Z")
I _might_ have been to other towns named “Athens” than the one in Greece and the one in Georgia, but if so I never noted it. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2344 "2023-03-02T17:09:49Z")
I’m not sure whether I’ve ever been to Athens, NY. If so, it was some time ago. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2345 "2023-03-02T17:38:07Z")
Are these polls or the lyrics to a very boring remake of “I’ve Been Everywhere”? ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2346 "2023-03-02T20:34:56Z")
I don’t know whether I’ve been to any of the other Springfields; maybe so, maybe not. I do know for sure that I’ve been to the one in Massachusetts, so voted for that. Isn’t there anybody else here who travelled a lot at some points in their life, or for that matter still does so, and doesn’t remember every place they’ve been? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2347 "2023-03-02T20:38:39Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > doesn’t remember every place they’ve been? I’ve been to a restaurant that turns around slowly, but for the life of me I don’t remember any details, including where it was. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2348 "2023-03-02T20:38:57Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Isn’t there anybody else here who travelled a lot at some points in their life, or for that matter still does so, and doesn’t remember every place they’ve been? I’m sure I have forgotton the names of many places I’ve been. I voted as if the question was “do you remember visiting Springfield” ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2349 "2023-03-03T03:36:36Z")
Many years ago I ate at the rotating restaurant atop the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio. I don’t remember that much about it, except being surprised to learn that the rotation was powered by a single 1/2 horsepower motor. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2350 "2023-03-03T03:54:32Z")
On the work space poll, I picked “At my employer’s site I book the space I need when I go in, and I prefer to work from home,” as that was the closest option, but it’s not exactly right for me. We have shared workspaces (basically a mixture of long desks and smaller work tables), and no one has an assigned office/desk/cube. However, there’s no reservation/hoteling system involved; it’s all “first come, first served, sit wherever you want.” We each have small lockers (about the size of a small microwave oven) for storing personal stuff, though my locker contains a bottle of Tylenol, and that’s it. We moved to this building, and this “open office” format, 3 1/2 years ago. I hate it, and I go in very infrequently. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2351 "2023-03-03T04:39:56Z")
I know that my parents own the house we lived in when I was born. And I know that they, and my older sisters, lived in the Bronx before they moved there. But I don’t know whether they owned the place in the Bronx, or rented it. – maybe I’ll ask my sister sometime. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2352 "2023-03-03T04:46:44Z")
My parents were renting when I (their oldest child) was born in 1965; we moved to another rental (in another city) when I was three months old. They then bought their first home when I was three, shortly before my sister was born; they had been married for nearly five years when we moved into that house. I think that part of the reason that they waited to buy was that my dad was in industrial sales (he sold newspaper printing presses), and early in his career, he relocated several times, from one regional office to another. From 1960 to 1965, he/they lived in Los Angeles, then Detroit, then Chicago (the company’s home office), then to San Jose (where I was born), and then back to Chicago. Once he’d worked his way up high enough in the organization that he was feeling confident that they wouldn’t be relocating again any time soon, they finally bought their own place. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2353 "2023-03-03T05:03:58Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I’m not autistic, and that was never a concern. I was a very gregarious, happy baby and child, developed my vocal and reading skills very early I’m also not going to declare you’re autistic but interestingly reading very early (like age 2 and/or they seem to teach themselves) is also an autism symptom. It’s called [hyperlexia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlexia) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2354 "2023-03-03T05:07:07Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > but interestingly reading very early (like age 2 and/or they seem to teach themselves) is also an autism symptom. More like around age 3. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2355 "2023-03-03T05:15:43Z")
Oh, me too, and I definitely didn’t pick it up on my own. One of my apparently very early memories is of my dad sitting me down and saying “Daddy is tired of reading Three Billygoats Gruff and Green Eggs and Ham. So we’re going to teach you to read them!” and then he did. I related this story to my brother a few years ago and my dad corrected me. I thought I was four because I recalled it being just before I was awarded my first library card as young as allowed after proving I could write my name, but he said there’d been more than half a year between him teaching me to read and me getting my library card. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2356 "2023-03-03T12:01:46Z")
My parents were renting when I was born, roughly 7 months after they got married. I assume I was a premature baby. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2357 "2023-03-03T16:12:40Z")
Probably either social anthropology or agriculture. I suppose I could have picked “science” but that seems awfully vague. Picked “other”. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2358 "2023-03-03T16:28:23Z")
History, because I already have degrees in the other areas that would interest me. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2359 "2023-03-03T16:37:46Z")
Science, specifically meteorology, as that was what I had intended on going into, from about age 6 until age 17, when I let myself get intimidated by the amount of math involved in a meteorology degree, and instead went into marketing. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2360 "2023-03-03T17:10:52Z")
Music or Arts, because at this point in my life I have no more need to obtain any marketable skills, so if I _have_ to return to school I might as well be doing something I can enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/2361 "2023-03-03T17:31:42Z")
No Simpsons’ Springfield as an option, boo… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=117) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=119)