I chose …
I will take the rural route if it will take more than 10 minutes more but not if it takes longer than some specific time I have in my head.
the some specific time I have in my head would vary depending on what
time i would want to be home, maybe because there’s something i want
to watch on tv or something.
Probably something like “once for yes, twice for no, three times for ‘I can’t answer the question in that form’.” But it might depend on what sort of thing I was asking them.
Unless I know the rural route well, I will stay on the freeway, even if it does take a bit longer- that was not an option.
I find that getting lost can cost a LOT more time than traffic.
I find that i rarely get lost now that i have Google maps on my phone.
Well, yes, but Google doesnt always have up to day street closures, etc.
Waze, then. I mean, unless you’re a stubbornly devout Luddite, getting lost isn’t really even a thing anymore.
The Karen poll was timely since there was just a post today on our NextDoor where someone had groceries (only four bags) left on their doorstep.
Fortunately, before they had to do much research the new neighbor came over to ask if their delivery had come to them. Problem solved!
Unless you’re in a rural area w/o cell service.
Happened to us last year, we were driving alone following Google maps when she accidentally did something to stop navigation; because wherever we were at the moment had no cell service we couldn’t even get back in & pick up where we just left off. Luckily I knew we had a couple of miles to the next turn & we did come up out of the valley to get enough service to start again. I do enough rural driving that I still have a Garmin Nuvi in my car’s which only need a clear view of the sky & not a cell signal
If i plan to drive in areas with dicey cell service, i download a map of the area before i start. (I have maps of everything near me all the time.) Then, if i lose cell service, i lose traffic info, but not navigation.
I do this too. I have offline maps covering my local area, and if I plan to travel anywhere not covered by those maps, I download a map for that area before I go.
That trip was about 1000 miles & we would have had to download most on NY state, from east to west & south to more that halfway up as we did a circular route, differing out from back. Thats a lot of data for offline storage; like I started above, a Nuvi in the car negates the need to download anything to a phone.
It looks like downloading all of New York state takes about 400 MB. I guess if your phone is very close to full, you might consider that a lot, but I have about 30 GB free, so it would be hardly noticable.
Ing as in singer, not as in finger. Didn’t answer.
Yup, me, too.
I say “eating”, but I also say “goin’”.
Could not vote.
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Ideally I should pronounce it like the “ing” in “singer”.
In the real world, I get sloppy and drop the “g”. And often the “i”.
I’ll follow up to the “Pronounce -ing” poll. My sister and I grew up in the mid-Atlantic, and maybe picked up a bit of “Bawlmerese” but not much. She ended up in Wisconsin 25+ years ago and every time I see her, and especially my nephew, or other native WI people, I notice they pronounce words that end in “-ing”, as “-een” e.g. it sounds to me like, “eat-een” or “topp-een” (eating, topping). I think this is common on the west coast as well. I don’t know what its called in phonetics.
I agree that “singer” would have made a better example.
I live on the west coast, and I don’t notice it much here. If I do hear it, it’s usually from a tourist.
I don’t pay that much attention to avatars, and can’t see most of them very well anyway. So I don’t know how much became missing from any of them when they turned into circles. I wasn’t even sure they hadn’t been circles all along.
Whether the father did better than his promise or worse than his promise depends entirely on what the daughter thinks of it. Did he ask her? If not, did he notice her reaction when he told her? If she said “No, Daddy, what I wanted was to see the movie!” then he did worse. If she said “Great! That’s even better than I asked for!” then he did better. If he neither asked her nor paid any attention to her reaction when he changed the deal, then he should have.
Seems like they could work in the movie and go to Disneyworld.