# 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:** 341
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6802 "2025-05-15T01:50:22Z")
I’ve tried reheating leftover pizza in the oven, the toaster oven, the microwave, and in a skillet. I didn’t really like any of those methods, but they are all more edible than cold pizza. I didn’t vote, because i don’t have a favorite method. Mostly, i leave the leftover pizza for my husband, who likes it. I’ve often shared hotel rooms. I’ve always split the bill equally per person. Except when i let an impoverished student crash on the floor. That wasn’t planned in advance, and i didn’t charge them anything. But normally, we split the bill based number of people in the room. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6803 "2025-05-15T02:05:26Z")
Cold pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6804 "2025-05-15T02:08:15Z")
That’s insane. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mc7-_oOAJ7o/maxresdefault.jpg "30 Rock: "YOU don't tell me what kind of PIZZA TO LIKE!"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc7-_oOAJ7o) ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6805 "2025-05-15T13:04:33Z")
I can’t imagine sharing a hotel room with an unrelated adult unless we were doing it for someone who had no money. (Or, perhaps, a threesome?). But 50/50 seems fair given the hypothetical ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6806 "2025-05-15T13:24:51Z")
I’ve just shared rooms with two unrelated adults. We’re on a walking trip and traveling economically. I sometimes travel with friends, or attend conferences, where this is the norm. This week’s trip was with a friend and one of her friends. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6807 "2025-05-15T13:49:20Z")
I understand why people do it. I only meant that it would never be something my wife and I would do. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6808 "2025-05-15T14:09:51Z")
I do a bunch of balloon festivals. The festival will give us one (or two) rooms per balloon. We’re jamming our mostly-unrelated crews into that room or two but we’re all people who know each other & are friends; close enough that we sometimes spend holidays together. Depending upon where it is, it’s not unheard of for us to travel there together in the same vehicle. It’s also not all that uncommon for us not to be able to get an additional room at that hotel because they are sold out for the event. When you’re leaving at 5am you don’t want to have to drive somewhere extra to pick up other bodies. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6809 "2025-05-15T14:25:47Z")
Hotel Priorities: 1. Clean 2. Bathtub, not shower (increasingly hard to find) 3. Nice bed ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6810 "2025-05-15T14:35:54Z")
I’m sharing a room with a woman i barely know whose first language is German in two weeks. I travel more then my husband, and often share a room with one other adult. And sometimes, when i travel with my husband, we share a room with one of those people. I wouldn’t share a room with my husband and a person i don’t know well; two people in a room doesn’t feel extravagant. But a third person saves a bit of money, and is collegial. We have breakfast company. I guess i often stay in places with limited rooms in the desirable venue, so sharing means more people who don’t have to go outside late at night when the dancing ends. (It’s usually a square dance festival.) ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6811 "2025-05-15T14:45:49Z")
Am I the only one that noticed the latest poll outlines two rooms: 1. King Bed, Shower 2. Queen bed, Tub And then asks you to choose shower or King bed, which are both in the one room! The only way to choose the Queen bed/Tub is to choose other (which can also contain a myriad of additional choices). ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6812 "2025-05-15T14:47:47Z")
I hadn’t seen the poll, yet. So yes, having read you post, i noticed that. And that’s an unusual choice. Usually, it’s do you want a shower-stall only, or a tub with a shower in 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:** [May 15, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6813 "2025-05-15T15:52:57Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > Am I the only one that noticed the latest poll outlines two rooms: > > 1. King Bed, Shower > 2. Queen bed, Tub > > And then asks you to choose shower or King bed, which are both in the one room! No, you are not. I was coming here to post that. And yeah, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a tub that didn’t also have a showerhead; at least, unless the bathroom had both a tub and a separate shower (a combination that wouldn’t suit me, because after taking a bath I want to rinse off with a brief shower, and I don’t want to walk across the bathroom sopping wet in order to do so). – I’ve routinely shared hotel rooms with casual acquaintances at farming conferences; and at least once with someone I hadn’t previously met, who I was paired with by the conference (they had an option to request them to assign you a roommate.) That worked out well enough that we arranged between ourselves to share a room the next couple of years at that conference. At least once I shared a room with a mixed-gender group; three of us, two women and one man, no sexual relationships involved between/among any of us. And, when I was considerably younger and so was the conference organization, a barn floor with a whole lot of people of at least two genders; and one bathroom. While we were all lined up in the morning waiting to take a pee and brush teeth, one person took a moderately long shower. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6814 "2025-05-15T16:04:18Z")
A friend and I take a baseball road trip every year, and we’ve always shared hotel rooms. It makes sense economically, and we’re pretty much just in the room to sleep and shower anyway. I can’t imagine a situation where my wife and I would share a room with a third person, or where I would be the third person sharing with a couple. Maybe if nobody could truly afford their own room, but that fortunately is not the case these days. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6815 "2025-05-15T16:06:39Z")
No, but I did notice it’s _another_ public poll by **MMM** ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6816 "2025-05-15T16:25:35Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I can’t imagine a situation where my wife and I would share a room with a third person, or where I would be the third person sharing with a couple. Maybe if nobody could truly afford their own room, but that fortunately is not the case these days. Often, I’ve done it because there aren’t enough rooms in the desirable venue (sometimes the only venue) for all the people who want to attend an event to split up. I went to one especially over-crowded event where the rooming coordinator reached out to smaller people to ask if they’d be willing to share a double bed! At that event, i had a single bed in the same room as a gay couple. I knew one of them, and met the other at the event. It worked fine. I changed in the bathroom while they changed in the main room. My husband and i often share a room with one or two other people at a similar event that i organize in the fall. At both of those events, the cost is determined by the event organizer, and includes the housing fee. (One fee that covers dancing, food, and lodging.) As an organizer, I’ve never considered splitting the housing cost by anything other than “per person”. But I’ve also gone to an event where we were each responsible for renting a hotel room, and my husband and i shared with a friend. We split the cost 3 ways. Because… Honestly, the value of half a queen bed that i share with my husband is basically the same as the value of a whole queen bed. And everything else is the same per person. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6817 "2025-05-15T16:29:59Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > No, but I did notice it’s _another_ public poll by **MMM** That one seems like a good poll to be public, except that he wrote it wrong. I’m curious who else prefers what, and it’s not as if that’s an especially private question. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6818 "2025-05-15T17:12:57Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > No, but I did notice it’s _another_ public poll by **MMM** And I’ve made note of everyone’s responses. I’m sure I’ll be able to use it against them at a later date. Yes I saw the poll was written wrong. I still voted shower because it doesn’t matter what the bed size is I need a shower. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6819 "2025-05-15T17:13:53Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > Am I the only one that noticed No. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6820 "2025-05-15T17:22:40Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I still voted shower because it doesn’t matter what the bed size is I need a shower. I actually didn’t notice the poll was wrong, precisely because I was voting entirely based on having a shower and don’t care about the bed size. I want the shower, I don’t want to have to take baths, even though some might consider having “only” a shower stall to be a downgrade. If the room with the shower also comes with the king bed, then it’s even more of a no-brainer; the bigger bed is an extra bonus! ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6821 "2025-05-15T17:25:24Z")
I voted king size. I don’t have a partner but if I did I’d want a bigger bed. If the hotel is paying for heating and water I’m having a bath, even if a shower was available. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=340) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=342)