I have good friends who have large constructions of lego and similar building kits prominently displayed in their homes. Did i mention these are people i like and respect?
Getting a hair in my mouth is gross. It interacts with the tongue in unpleasant ways. But if i see one in my food i just remove it. And it’s usually my husband’s, so it’s not like I’m going to complain to the management.
I once found a cockroach that appeared to have drowned in the sauce of a dish from my favorite restaurant. I was kinda grossed out, but i was still hungry and the dish was delicious, so i picked out the bug and ate the rest of my food. I thought the odds that it was actually dangerous were low.
What? No envy emoji?
That’s me as well.
You win.
Back in the late 90s my then teenage brother was friends with an older kid who drove an ice cream truck. That’s the only ice cream truck that ever has visited this neighborhood.
I wager it’s because there are fewer kids in the three miles surrounding my house than you can count on your fingers.
When I first got married we lived in a tiny apartment which was the second floor of a two family house. We had planned on living there for a little while until we saved up money for our own house. The house was wiped out by hurricane Floyd. We scrambled to find a house we could afford and wound up buying our starter home in a couple of months.
I bought a small one-bedroom condo when I was 23 and lived there for 11 years. I never referred to it as a “starter home” - it was just where I lived. When I got married, it became too small for the two of us, and we bought a larger house.
I grew up in a small town where the knuckle-dragging majority thought water fluoridation was part of an international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. Hence, I had more cavities as a kid than I can count. They finally tapered off when I was about 14 or so. Maybe by that time I had more fillings than tooth so there wasn’t much left to rot. Now I’m of an age when the original fillings are failing, so I’ve had to have several of them redone in recent years.
Wow, I am surprised by the fillings poll so far. I had originally capped it at 10, then thought, oh maybe there’s a couple of people with a bit more than 10, so I raised it to 15 to be safe. I never expected “more than 15” to be the front runner. I have one filling.
I don’t think I have quite had 15, but I am pretty sure I have had at least 10, so I voted “10”.
I was very annoyed when I learned that those newfangled plastic fillings are intentionally designed to need replacing every few years.
This board runs old. I remember ads for toothpaste when I was a kid – I’ve forgotten the brand – in which the kid comes home from a dental appointment and says ‘I only had one cavity!’ and that was supposed to be a great advantage of that toothpaste – only one cavity. Per each dentist appointment; which was recommended every year.
I have one and only one filling which I needed when I was in my 30’s; and drank from a well, to which we added nothing, though I suppose it may have had natural flouride. My parents grew up in two very different places in the world long before flouridation and also had almost no cavities, however – I think I just inherited really strong enamel.
Fluoride versus sugar.
Sugar often wins.
Also none of us grew up drinking much soda; or any sort of sweetened drink except as an occasional treat. That probably helped, too. And I didn’t much like chewing gum, which always seemed to me to lose its flavor almost immediately but you were supposed to keep chewing this flavorless lump – why?
I’ve had library cards since I was a kid, and have put them to very good use over the years - hell, I used my current one just today to check out a book!
I’ll barf in a toilet whenever possible, just for the ease of flushing it away afterwards. If I’m in bed while ill and am feeling nauseous, I’ll keep a small plastic bucket by the bed and use that if I can’t get to the bathroom in time. Easy to rinse out and use again, if necessary.
I liked playing with Legos now and then when our sons were really into them (we even once visited Legoland outside Chicago, which was fun). I would never think badly of a grownup who was really into Legos. Hobbies are hobbies.
I would, however, be completely disgusted if I found a cockroach in my food. I’d probably point it out to the waiter, ask to have my bill waived, pay under protest if I had to, then leave that restaurant and never go back.
Pop (soda) was a rare treat for my sisters and me growing up. Other than needing braces, we all had healthy teeth.
I do know that “Lego Bricks” is the official term, but I absolutely don’t care if you call them Legos, or call a single brick a Lego.
Of all the things in the world to get annoyed about, this one isn’t even on my radar.
I’m unclear on the difference between “I’m in my ‘starter home’ now” and “I bought a ‘starter home’ and I still live there.” Those sound like essentially the same thing to me, just worded in different ways.
I intended the former to mean “I’m currently living in what I consider to be my ‘starter home,’ and I fully intend to move to a bigger, better place in the future,” and the latter to mean, “I did that too, but I never moved to that bigger, better place.”
I’ve only bought one home, and never sold one. But i never considered it a starter home. I lived in rental units during the years when i might have lived in a “starter home”, and bought this one intending to raise my children in it and stay until we had to move or no longer wanted to deal with a house. I thought it was weird that this wasn’t contemplated by the poll. Or maybe it’s too late and i missed it.
That’s how I interpreted the answers. My parents moved into their starter home in 1960. We just sold it this week. The obviously never moved. The house was way too small for all of us but we survived.
-Temporary smug look-
I’m still on my first marriage now at 21.5 years, so this genie was easy on me at least, although…
-End smug look-
I’m not 100% sure if she would give the same answer.
-Begin worried look-
I said “hell no” to the genie’s offer on my first marriage. It wasn’t my wife’s fault, she was fine. But I was not ready, at least with her. It lasted about a year.