Same.
I get a cake with candles every year. Most years we do the age in base two (two colors of candles) but when i turned 60 my husband put 61 candles on the cake and made me blow them all out 
That’s so caring.
My wife bakes me a lovely cake with hand made chocolate buttercream frosting. No candles however… fire codes prevent it! 
Depends on the party. It’s not like we go to a lot of parties. Usually relatively small affairs where it would be easy to say goodbye to everyone. On the rare occasion it’s a big party maybe I’ll seek out the host.
I hate long goodbyes. I ghost, aka Irish Goodbye. Leave people wondering what happened.
This. I thank the host and leave. I’d say that I tell other guests good-bye, but I tend to go to parties to talk with my wife.
Exactly what is best for the American people is up for argument. Trump would argue that he is what’s best for the American people, and as he cares only about himself, I selected “10” for this poll.
Voted ‘depends on the party’; but unless something went seriously wrong at the party, I’m going to at least say goodbye to the host(s); though if they’re deep in conversation with somebody else I might settle for catching their eye and waving (at which point they can decide whether to break off the conversation and say goodbye to me). Whether I’m going to also say goodbye to anyone or possibly everyone else, and how long I’m going to spend doing it, is going to vary.
I mean, yeah, you can absolutely interpret it that way, but I tend to think it’s against the intent of the poll. Not that I’m the boss of you, the poll poster, or anyone else. Especially not my cats.
Definitely depends on the party. If it’s a huge party (maybe a big wedding) i just leave. If it’s a small gathering, maybe Thanksgiving dinner with my brother and sister and their spice, I’ll say goodbye to everyone. In between, I’m with thorny_locust, and make an attempt to thank the host on my way out.
That’s sage advice!
Of course Trump would argue that he’s what’s best for the American people, but I would contend that’s because he’s trying to convince people that it’s so, not that he himself actually believes it to be true. That’s the nature of a grifter.
Where I come from, micromoles are a reason to see a dermatologist.
On the swimming question, I’m halfway between “it’ll be dicey” and “I’m screwed”. I have myasthenia gravis, so I might not have enough steam to make it, but I know the dea man’s float and how to conserve energy…
I have never learned to swim (it’s a very long story). So, I’d be screwed in that situation.
I sink. Believe me I’ve tried. I would run out of energy quickly and drown
I float. The advantage of some subcutaneous fat. Swimming is easier than when i was a kid. And I’m even more buoyant in the ocean than in fresh water. I could lie on my back with my nose above the water for a very long time in ideal conditions.
I’ve swum a mile. Wearing flippers. In a lake. Could i swim a mile in the open ocean, with waves, without flippers? I guess if my life depended on it, and the weather was okay, and hypothermia wasn’t a problem i probably could… I said it would be dicey.
My mother said i was able to swim in the ocean a couple years before i learned to swim in fresh water, because as a kid i floated in the ocean but sank in fresh water. Maybe you’d be better off than you think.
I am halfway between “It’ll be dicey” and “no problem”.
I went with dicey.
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I forgot about that factor! Yeah, I’m gonna float pretty easily (fat is not as dense as water. Muscle is denser. Guess which I have more of 
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My first husband had almost no body fat. He sank like a stone in water
I now have a protective layer of fat but years of weight lifting has made me pretty dense. Just to tread water I’m using about the same energy I would to swim. That along with my declining stamina with age means I’m done pretty quickly.