@elfkin477, I voted a split ticket – sort of. I voted for one Democratic candidate on the Working Families line, just so I could say I’ve never voted a straight party line ticket. You can do that, in New York State, when two or more parties endorse the same candidate, as happens fairly often. The votes from the party lines are added together and all count for the candidate who they go to.
@Mean_Mr.Mustard, I could cheerfully give up most of those inventions forever. I’m not using most of them now.
My current home is the first one I’ve had with an automatic garage door opener. It really is something I’ve grown to appreciate, especially since getting an app that can open and close the doors using my phone.
I could live without it, but I’d rather not. The coffeee maker pod thing I could easily give up.
My child’s distress was probably physiological, not physical. (E.g., they don’t want to go home now) but if they were crying, they were certainly in distress.
In creating the poll I came up with a list of things that I would very much not want to give up.
I expected that Keurig would win. I chose it myself.
But I’m surprised that the microwave has yet to receive a vote. This may have been my second choice.
GPS has spoiled me and caused me to lose most of what little navigation skills I already have. I don’t want to give it up, but it may have done more harm than good for me.
I will never give up my dishwasher, my remote, or my garage door opener.
[imagines Mean_Mr.Mustard in some postapocalyptic scenario, surrounded by piles of dirty dishes, sitting on his dishwasher, clutching in one hand a TV remote and in the other a garage door opener; none of which work because the power’s not on and won’t be.]
Got you covered. Hadn’t had one in 20 years, and it’s not something I use (much) when I’m at places that do have one.
I do not have a Keurig myself, but I find it convenient when I’m in a hotel, B&B, etc.
Because I reside outside of the U.S., and it’s midterms, I only got to vote for my representative, as neither Senator spot was up for election. So I only had one thing to vote for, so no way to split the ticket.
There’s sort of no Black Friday here. But there’s Black Week, Black Friday Week, Black November and also Cyber Week and Cyber Weekend. Not much of an alignment. Still didn’t do any shopping except the necessary things to make sure we got fed.
Same for me. I know people that have lived in the same smallish city for 20 years and still use GPS to get around. A simple “It’s right next to Walmart/Target/Home Depot” would work just fine.
I suppose the definition of “in actual distress” is what’s debatable.
I see crying kids every day, and in the vast majority of cases it’s because they don’t want to go home, or Mom won’t buy them a toy, or their brother got to push the stroller and they didn’t, or something equally trivial.
Sometimes they’re crying because they’ve hurt themselves or because they’ve lost their parents, and those are the times I think qualify for “in actual distress.” It’s a low percentage, in my observation.
I suspect that many, if not all of those kids are tired and/or hungry. Even adults sometimes have trouble realizing that the reason why they’re cranky is because of that; kids that young are going to think it’s the last thing they didn’t like, not the growing tiredness they’ve been filling for a long time.
N. B. I’ve never had kids, I just read a lot. And I’ve been hangry long before that was a word
Right. Kids cry because they are in distress. For a little kid that might mean I want a snack or I’m 5 minutes late for my nap. I don’t count those as actual distress.
I will never lose my navigation sense. The problem is the tools are no longer readily available. If I could easily find maps losing GPS wouldn’t be that tough. AAA used to send maps with the best routes mapped out. Not so easy any more with the assumption everyone will just use their phone.
I would consider tired, hungry, and feeling a desperate need to be outside the store that you can’t articulate*, to all count as actual distress. The poll didn’t say “severe” distress.
*including that one because sometimes I have it; I think it’s something in the air, it’s generally worse in places with a lot of outgassing plastics. As an adult, I can both put it at least partially into words, and get myself back out of the store – and I know I can get back out of the store, which helps me to tolerate it for the length of time it takes me to do so. But a three year old might be feeling the same thing, and have no way to say it other than ‘wanna go!’
Distress, by its very nature, is subjective. What’s not distressing to an adult may indeed be very distressing to a kid.
What the adults need to do about it, let alone what an adult who’s not the child’s caretaker needs to do about it, does vary. But the fact that the random person wandering down an aisle doesn’t need to do anything about the child who’s crying because lunch is a little late but should do something about the child who’s crying because Daddy went away and left them there two hours ago doesn’t mean that the first child’s not in distress. Nor does the fact that the caretaker who understands that the problem is that lunch is a little late may well be justified in making lunch a little later.
I know my way around pretty well, and even if I’m momentarily confused, I’ve never felt panicky lost.
O.k. time for a serious confession. Over 40 years ago I left a Christmas party much too inebriated to be driving. A few blocks from the party, a police car pulled up along side me, and I freaked because I noticed them trying to get my attention. They only were letting me know I hadn’t turned my headlights on. But I was rattled so I got on the next freeway entrance in an area about 30-40 miles from home that I wasn’t familiar with. I think it was the 210 when I had been on it maybe once before at that time. I didn’t know where the heck I was or where I was going, but I just moved from freeway to freeway 'til I found one that I knew was going in the right direction and got home with no problems.
Cured me of ever driving inebriated again. But, young and stupid…
Trying to scroll through an online map while driving sounds like a nightmare. Possible in a pinch but not really workable. Other technology could take its place but I was answering if it happened today with nothing else changing.