Good line. I’ll have to remember that.
If you have to create that poll about lucid dreaming, you’ve never had a lucid dream.
Wait, what? I created that poll because I’ve had a bunch of lucid dreams, and wondered if it was common on the board, and the type of lucid dreams folk have (control vs observer).
I think I just may be dreaming this thread…
I think carrps is referring to the most recent poll by elfkin477, which questions whether lucid dreaming is just partially waking up. No, of course it’s not.
Yes, I was referencing the most recent one. I kinda forgot there were two. Sorry, @squeegee !
My sleep has always followed weird phases. I had a lucid dreaming phase in my early 20s. I had a vivid dream I still remember to this day when I had just started dating my husband. We went into a haunted house full of terrible ghouls. They were too horrible to look at. My husband, for whatever reason, didn’t get that he was in danger as he wandered around the house. And one of the ghouls was hovering over his shoulder, turned to look at me and gave me the most evil, predatory grin before going after him.
This was the point of the dream at which it became lucid. I was afraid to look at the ghoul, to behold its ugly visage, but when I saw it go after my husband like that, I forced myself to look it dead in the eye, grabbed an umbrella and attacked the shit out of it.
Ever since that dream, and this is twenty-some years later, I always choose to look at the unspeakable horror in my dreams, and that choice always transforms the dream from a nightmare to the story of me whipping some monster’s ass.
That’s fucking awesome 
For the marriage age poll, I initially voted “lower than the drinking age”, because the legal drinking age in the US is 21, but I think people should be allowed to get married when they’re legally adults, at 18. But then after further thought, the poll didn’t specify that the legal drinking age must remain the same as it is now, and I figure if 18 is old enough to be considered an adult, and serve in the military, then it’s old enough to drink. And get married. So I changed my vote to “same as the drinking age” meaning I would support lowering the drinking age to 18.
That’s my view. But if some nanny-state types think you have to be 21 to drink, then by god you should be at least that old before you get married.
Ha, thanks to @WildaBeast for the tribute poll! 
Yes, I own a squeegee, but my name was because I couldn’t think of a better name and I’d been washing windows that day in (I think it was) 2001.
I think the drinking age should be lower than it is now; I think raising it didn’t work, and we should try dropping it. So I voted that the marriage age should be higher, but I didn’t mean that I think the marriage age should be higher than 21, but that the drinking age should be lower.
And I’d think squeegee probably owns a squeegee because I think probably most adults have one of some kind or another somewhere; I only thought the name increases the chances a bit. I decided not to hold out arguing against the either-or options on that one, and voted yes.
Well, I do own one now, but I didn’t for a decent portion of my adult life. I got one after I became a homeowner, and had all the windows in the house replaced*. I was really proud of having new windows and wanted to take care of them and clean them properly, so I went to Lowe’s and bought a nice brass professional window washer’s squeegee.
*The old ones were almost certainly original to the house, dating from the early 1970s, and were inefficient, ugly, drafty, aluminum framed single pane things.
I did say most. I’m sure that there are some people who don’t.
And I admit that I’m guessing. I kind of doubt there are any clear statistics available on the issue, however. – Google is giving me a lot of results about squeegee men and squeegee kids. I’m not curious enough to try any harder.
Exactly this. Thanks for typing it out.
@kayaker Fantastic answer!
RE “exotic” pets, I had a pair of flying squirrels as pets when I was in the 5 and 6th grades. Nathan and Julliet were their names. (They were not easily socialized, and I ended up returning them to nature). My brother had a pet raccoon.
I do not own a squeegee.
I thought i didn’t, but then i remembered that we have one in the bathroom, to clean the walls after showering. I changed my vote.
I counted pets I had as a child. I may not have technically “owned” them, but I played them and was at least partially responsible for their care. We had a guinea pig for a while when I was in middle school. I guess that counts as “other rodent”. I had thought, perhaps incorrectly, that guinea pigs were closely related to rabbits. So I wasn’t sure if they were rodents since rabbits aren’t. But Wikipedia says they are rodents.
We also had a goldfish. It was more my sister’s pet, but I still counted it.
I had a pet raccoon as a child. So did my younger brother. We also shared 2 pet lambs and a pair of Nubian goats. In college I had hermit crabs (they sing!) and later I had ferrets.
Now I’m old and boring so I have dogs and cats. But one dog is an Australian Cattle Dog, which has been called “the closest thing you can have to a wild animal without a zoo license.”