I thought someone might bring that up! They don’t stay still enough to sink. It would be somewhat like riding a bike - when you’re stopped, you’re keeping the bike upright, but when you get going, the bike stays up on its own
(Monty Python voice) Are you saying Michael Phelps is a gyroscope??(/MPvoice)
Definitely close enough. That must have felt good 
The double date poll I chose comedy sixth option. The evening ends up as an orgy. In Kintucky.
I am a heterosexual male. All of my siblings are heterosexual males. The “friend” who set this up does not know us nearly as well as he/she thinks.
Right. That’s why it’s easier for me to float as a fat middle-aged woman than it was when i was a skinny kid. And why as a child, i found it easier to swim in the ocean, which has denser salt water that gives everyone extra buoyancy.
I don’t know if she has, but I would be amazed if she had. She would instantly reject the idea if I suggested it, and it would almost certainly make our relationship much, much worse.
Not much of anything you can do, then; except, as you say, to minimize contact.
Q: Why don’t debutantes like orgies?
A: Too many thank-you notes.
This.
I don’t have any siblings, but I would have been amused.
The reason for the sibling poll - I was reading a book where this was the premise for the opening chapter. And the brother and sister acted like it was insanely gross - so gross that the sister decided to move out of their shared apartment.
In addition, the sister’s name is Juniper and their last name is Bean. Both of which are unusual enough that someone should have caught on earlier than the time of meeting.
My brother and I try to stay out of each other’s business in general, but I’d be burning with curiosity about why he decided to start dating again after having given it up some thirty years ago, and I’d be very surprised if he didn’t ask me at least one question about why I’m on a blind date instead of going out with my husband.
Names aside, that makes no sense to me. Unless there is something more it’s a harmless mistake cleared up in seconds.
Yeah, it would be a moment of weird awkwardness, followed by a laugh and a pleasant evening with friends. And then a story, “remember the time…”
I went to a square dance convention recently where various people were confused and thought i was attending with my husband, my wife, and three of my sons. (I was there with one son. I shared my hotel room with a gay guy I’m friendly with, i held the hand of a lesbian who was remembering something painful, and i guess i hung out enough with a couple of younger friends that people made assumptions.) We all thought it was funny.
Would I have to be 20 in mind as well as in body?
An extreme example.
This may be my most controversial post ever.
I can’t stand avacado. I don’t care if put it on toast, it’s still vile.
I consider myself to be a Millennial, albeit at the old end of the range, and I don’t think I’ve ever had avocado toast. I do like putting avocado on sandwiches, though, like BLTs and club sandwiches.
The only possible use for avocados is guacamole. But seeing the amount of water they soak up and the assholes that tend to grow them in this state, I’m willing to take the hit on my snacking and eradicate the avocado from the planet.
So I’m meh.