I don’t mind Gatorade. The one I really like is G2. Lighter flavor and it tastes much better to me.
My windows are mostly closed. My place has very bad airflow. There is about a 2 degree range where the temperature is right for open windows.
The combination of self checkout and a ban on plastic bags makes for a miserable time. I have a million bags stuffed in the back of my car. They are all different sizes. They don’t fit the bag rack in each store. It’s fine for a couple items but not for a big order.
Been to the ER way too many times.
My place isn’t big. There is a one car garage. It’s used for storage.
My parents had a wonderful marriage. They loved each other and they never had a single fight in 33 years. My father ruined it by dying young.
That’s because I was going to put the divorce question into a separate poll; I wanted to find out how healthy the actual relationship was while they were together. Yours would thus seem to slot into mildly negative slot (-1). As said there can be other issues involved, which is why I listed the disclaimer in the description at the top.
EDIT, sigh, I see I did put in something about them staying together in -1, sigh. I may just have to bail on any descriptions in the future, just use my 7 point love/like/ok/neutral/not so ok/dislike/hate scale and let you all fill in the blanks.
We have a two-car garage. As it’s just my wife and me in the household, and we have always each had a car, we were able to park both cars in the garage.
But, my father-in-law passed away in 2019, and as part of his estate, he left us a Chevrolet Corvette. It now resides in the garage, as does my Mustang; my wife’s “daily driver” car, an older Mazda crossover SUV, is parked on the street in front of our house.
Two for deep facial cuts (one led to stitches, the other to butterfly tape)
One for what I was afraid was a stroke, but turned out to be Bell’s palsy
One for chest pains, which turned out to be an anxiety attack, but they held me overnight for observation, and bloodwork revealed that I was a previously-undiagnosed diabetic
I voted NOTA for the parental status. My parents divorced when I was 8-9, each has since re-married (several years later), and I’d have to try to vote to rate each of the three marriages. And I’d want a lot more options, because to the best of my knowledge, no physical violence in any, but plenty of verbal violence, and of course, it leaves out options (for my mother and step-father) of eventual separation but not divorce.
I think it’s likely a subject that’s bad for a poll due to far too many varied scenarios.
[new post for my parents’ marriage] Maybe this shows the limit of polls with a single axis. Theirs was definitely a love-hate kind of thing, which tbh may not slot in anywhere. It also deteriorated fairly tremendously over time; I was aware enough as a preschooler to remember my father passionately embracing and kissing my mom when he came home from work; that eventually came to an end as they moved into middle age. [edit] So yeah ParallelLines…
While they had quite a number of memorable trips and adventures (such as being towed to shore by their champion swimming Native American friend after their boat conked out on Lake Erie, and a mega around-the-world trip), as well as incidents which sparked a lot of laughter amongst us all, in later years they had the most bitter verbal shouting matches, tho my dad never actually hit her (actually he may have, once). My father had numerous affairs, one of which almost nuked the marriage (at a time when my dad had decided to buy a restaurant-and have my mother run it, which she was not remotely up to doing, and it almost ruined him financially), they decided to stay together until he died of a coronary 24 years ago.
I park the car in a small barn usable as a garage, and the market van under the shed roof off it, in the wintertime. From mid-spring to well into the fall, the area under the shed roof is a produce washstand, and the garage space is workspace and storage for smaller pieces of farm and garden equipment.
Another NOTA on the parents one. No violence; I’m pretty sure no affairs; and I think they genuinely loved each other. But they were in some ways a bad fit for each other, and they argued a lot.
My parents separated when I was seven and divorced a year later, and I still remember their fights. I thought “martyr” was a swear word until I was a teenager. And although my mom was an absolute saint when it came to not involving her kids in marital arguments, the fact that I have a half-sister who’s eight years younger than I am and a half-brother from a different woman who’s nine years younger suggests strongly that infidelity was an issue. My inlaws, on the other hand, were married almost 60 years, until my MIL’s death. It looks like that’s the model my marriage followed, luckily.
I look forward every year to the season when we’ll be able to keep the windows open. The fact that it’s also prime allergy season makes no difference to me.
My wife and I were just talking the other day how we are the only ones, in both sides of the family, who park in the garage. I don’t know off-hand if any of our neighbors do, either.
Everybody’s garage is full of crap. I could not live like that.
Ditto. I bought my first house in 1991 and have garaged my car ever since. If I have too much garage crap to prevent this, out it goes. Sell, donate, nuke it from orbit.
I once moved into a neighborhood of new built houses, and even then many had garages full of crap and parked in the driveway. IDGI
Having a garage and not keeping your car(s) in it makes little sense to me. That is, in fact, the primary purpose of a garage. It’s like having a bedroom and choosing to sleep on the patio.
It’s similar in my neighborhood. We have alleys behind the houses (the neighborhood was first developed in the 1920s), and pretty much every house has a detached garage that opens into the alley. But, what I see is that, while most of those garages would fit two cars, they actually house one, or zero, cars, due to the other stuff that they have in the garages (recreational equipment, yard equipment, and just plain crap) - and this is despite the fact that nearly all houses here also have full basements, which can be used for storage.
I have a one car garage. My townhouse has little to no storage. It originally had an unfinished basement but I bought it because the basement had been finished and I needed it for a bedroom for my daughter. Maybe I should store the tools and Christmas stuff etc in the bedrooms? It would get pretty crowded in there.
My garage is my workshop. It’s filled with my workbench, shelves and shop machinery (tablesaw, drill press, jointer, etc). There’s no room for a motorcycle, let alone a car. It’s not really “livable” space, but it’s not really storage either.
The car doesn’t fit along with the garden cart, electric tiller, electric lawnmower, worktable, bucket of current weeding tools, bucket of current irrigation tools, and occasionally parts of the Troybuilt, or something else, in pieces being repaired. All of which need to stay out of the rain more than the car does.
And the primary purpose of the building in question, in my case, was obviously a small farm barn. The garage was clearly a later idea, when cars came along. The building has been a batch of things in its life, including an apartment and a produce packing shed (I now have a packing shed capable of keeping the squirrels out; which is a large improvement. It could also be used as a garage, but it’s full of sorting tables, scales, box shelving, and so on; so there’s no room for a car in their either.)
Our garage has a manual door that locks with a physical key and the access is down a rutted lane; our “driveway” (four feet of property) is steep and unpaved. Automating the garage door would require some serious renovation to the tune of thousands, because neither the floor nor doorframe is entirely level. The garage is not attached to the house. If we park on the flat, paved, street, it’s a lot shorter walk to get into the house than it would be from the garage, plus we can actually see the car from the house.