# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636 "2024-02-16T02:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 119
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2362 "2024-07-19T20:15:10Z")
I have never been in a hotel room that had Magic Fingers; my knowledge of them pretty much comes from movies like _Planes, Trains, and Automobiles_. But I was delighted when I learned a few months ago that the [Sundown Inn](http://www.sundowninn.com/index.html) in Morro Bay, CA still has them. They will be my first choice the next time I’m in Morro Bay. Not _just_ because of the Magic Fingers; they’re also quite highly rated online. But the Magic Fingers is a big part of it. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2363 "2024-07-19T20:17:35Z")
I would see the Magic Fingers boxes routinely in the motels where my family stayed on vacations (Holiday Inns, Ramadas, etc.) in the 1970s, but my parents refused to let us try it. Around 1991, a friend and I were staying at a Motel 6 in Wisconsin, and the bed in our room had a Magic Fingers, which was unplugged. We plugged it in, stuck in a quarter, and discovered that the thing shook the bed with an alarming intensity, and sounded like it was about to tear itself apart – we quickly unplugged it, having now determined _why_ it was not plugged in. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2364 "2024-07-19T20:26:05Z")
Our glasses are nested/stacked in pairs, rim side down, as that seems more stable for them. Our coffee mugs are stacked in pairs, too, altho few of them match, so the lower level (larger mugs) goes rim side down so the upper layer has a more stable place to rest rim side up. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2365 "2024-07-19T20:42:52Z")
I used magic fingers once, probably 50 years ago. I haven’t seen it in years. I used to own a plug in hybrid, that drove in fully electric mode for the first 12-20 miles. So i feel like I’ve driven an EV, but it was technically a hybrid. It drove differently when it started burning gas, though. As for showers, i answered the poll, but i shower way more often than i wash my hair. So usually i tie up my hair, soap up my body, and rinse, without ever touching shampoo. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2366 "2024-07-19T20:49:32Z")
The Holiday Inns and Howard Johnson’s we would stay at on our annual trek from South Florida to Western Connecticut usually had Magic Fingers. My father would let us sit on the bed while it ran. This was in the mid 70’s. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2367 "2024-07-19T21:04:12Z")
The glassware in the kitchen cabinet is almost entirely pint glasses, which stack. The ones that don’t stay open end up. Mugs hang from a rack next to said cabinet. As Jimmy Buffett noted: _They got a room service menu for food and drink_ _A porcelain throne and an aluminum sink_ _Two big pillows to rest my head_ _A Magic Fingers and a king-size bed_ _Put in a quarter_ _Turn out the light_ _Magic Fingers makes ya feel alright_ –“This Hotel Room” - J. Buffett The 10 East (Inland Empire), 15 South (Victorville) and the 15/Tropicana intersection (Las Vegas) have been under construction for _years_. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2368 "2024-07-19T21:07:01Z")
I’m surprised there weren’t more EV drivers too. I’ve never driven one, but I’d have guessed a fair number of the people on this board have driven one. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2369 "2024-07-19T21:23:00Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I put shampoo in my hair, then soap my body while the shampoo’s holding my hair up out of the way, then rinse both hair and body off simultaneously. There wasn’t an “other” option. I don’t see how that’s “other” situation. Rinsing was not in the poll just applying ---
**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:** [July 19, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2370 "2024-07-19T21:27:01Z")
I’m not doing one first and then the other. I’m in the middle of washing my hair, stop and wash my body, then finish washing my hair. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2371 "2024-07-19T22:38:00Z")
Regarding road construction: The streets all over my neighborhood are torn up, but not because they’re fixing the roads themselves. The utility is replacing the gas pipelines here, and to do that they have to tear up the roads. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2372 "2024-07-19T23:02:07Z")
I made that poll because I heard Steve Goodman sing that song just today. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2373 "2024-07-19T23:10:25Z")
Regarding the EV driving poll - I selected I haven’t driven any of them, although I’ve been the passenger in a few. None of my family or friends I’m close too enough to borrow a car have bought one yet, and it’s been 12-14 years since I’ve rented a car, so just no opportunities. As I mentioned in another thread, my wife and I are in the planning stages of buying a PHEV and/or BEV in the nearish future, but had to step things back due to needing to re-wire the house first. We had/have narrowed the choices down and were planning for test drives prior to the delay, but, well, no matter what, we’re waiting on the next gen with the new North American standard incorporated from the ground up. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2374 "2024-07-19T23:15:54Z")
My sister has an EV — a Nissan Leaf — and I have borrowed it many times while visiting her. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2375 "2024-07-19T23:31:36Z")
Never driven or been in an EV. I’m not avoiding them, it’s never come up. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2376 "2024-07-19T23:42:48Z")
Wedding ring, I voted “Wear 24/7” and “Never wear”. I used to wear 24/7, and then I was doing some serious dieting, and it became dangerously loose, so I put it aside. Then came Covid and 1/6, where I put most of the weight back on, so could wear it again but I’m back on the path to weight loss so I haven’t bothered. So we’ll see. 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 19, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2377 "2024-07-19T23:48:04Z")
I still wear my original wedding ring, which I designed in 1992, with the help of a friend who was a goldsmith, and who crafted it for me. (He also made my wife’s engagement and wedding rings.) About the only time I take it off is when I’m putting greasy/sticky stuff on my hands (hair gel, aftershave lotion), or if I’m working outdoors, and want to make sure it doesn’t get hung up on anything. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2378 "2024-07-19T23:53:23Z")
I always take my ring off when I go to bed. I always put it on when I leave the house. If I don’t leave the house I might not put it on that day. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2024, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2379 "2024-07-19T23:57:32Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I still wear my original wedding ring, which I designed in 1992, with the help of a friend who was a goldsmith, and who crafted it for me. (He also made my wife’s engagement and wedding rings.) I have a ring that’s a combination of wood and gold. I also have a black rubber ring that I wear if I’ll be out in the heat for a long time because I’ll get sausage fingers. When my mother passed away last year I got my father’s wedding ring and got it sized and cleaned. I’ll wear that on occasion. He never wore it. He tried when they first got married but hated wearing any kind of jewelry. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2380 "2024-07-19T23:59:37Z")
For the first decade and a half of my 25 year marriage, I wore the ring 24/7. Eventually my hand changed/I gained weight and it grew too difficult to get off and on and I was afraid it would get permanently affixed, and the tight fit honestly made me feel claustrophobic, so I stopped wearing it for the final 10 years. Wife didn’t mind. I still have it in a drawer somewhere I think, not worth the effort to pawn for the gold. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2024, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2381 "2024-07-20T02:58:24Z")
I only take my wedding band off to shower (I’m deathly afraid of it somehow going down the drain.), work with raw meat or dough, or if I’m working with machines that have the potential to rip off or deglove my finger. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=118) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=120)