The luggage question is hard, because it depends on the length of the trip. I’ve certainly flown with just a small backpack. But i decided i usually carry a rollerboard, and voted that way
I typically gate check my rollerboard.
Two words, one name.
I don’t know what that kind of luggage is called. I’d probably have called it a wheelie; but I haven’t got one and I haven’t been shopping for luggage since they became common. I haven’t been on a plane in quite a while and when I last was I took a backpack, a shoulder bag, and (to check through) an old Samsonite suitcase.
I call a piece of carry-on luggage with wheels a piece of carry-on luggage with wheels.
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I usually call it a “suitcase”. I have back packs and shoulder bags and duffle bags without wheels. I haven’t used a suitcase without wheels in a very long time.
Actually, that’s not true. I have a small, soft-sided suitcase that i sometimes bring as my larger carry on when i check the one with wheels. It’s nice because it fits overhead on the small planes that don’t have room for a full sized “carry-on” bag. And it’s well organized.
Yes, I get that there other possible names for that kind of luggage. The point of the poll was which of those two options do you believe is correct, as IMO one of them is wrong and is based on a mishearing of the other, yet I see people that term everywhere.
This article
Says that rollaboard is a trademark, and rollerboard is a widely used generic name for the category, and both are common and acceptable in speech if you aren’t in a position to violate the trademark.
Also, my MIL claimed her ballet troop invented the idea in the 70s, literally strapping roller skates to their trunks when they traveled. But they certainly didn’t patent the idea or mass-produce it.
The first patent for wheeled luggage was filed in February 1970 and granted in 1972, so unless your MIL filed in January 1970 or earlier, she couldn’t have gotten a patent anyway.
You know, i got the dates wrong. She was touring in the 50s and very early 60s, before her second child was born in 1963. So yes, she was doing that before 1970.
But they were literally strapping roller skates to trunks, not making suitcases with built-in wheels. And she never claimed it was her idea, it was apparently something all the ballet dancers in her her troup did.
I also know a guy whose father used microwaves to cook food during WWII. He was a soldier who used radar for military purposes, and the troops noticed that if you put a hotdog where the microwaves were focused in the big dish antenna, it got hot. They used it to heat food, but they didn’t develop a consumer device or patent anything, either.
Yeah, using the radar like that leads to serious eye issues- especially cataracts. Cataracts induced by microwave and ionizing radiation - ScienceDirect
I’m pretty sure they were putting their food into the beam, not their heads. 
According to Jefferson Airplane, it’s ok to put food into your head.
Russian researcher says “Hold my vodka!”
On 13 July 1978, he was checking a malfunctioning piece of equipment when the safety mechanisms failed. Bugorski was leaning over the equipment when he stuck his head in the path of the 76 GeV proton beam. He reportedly saw a flash “brighter than a thousand suns” but did not feel any pain.[1] The beam passed through the back of his head, the occipital and temporal lobes of his brain, the left middle ear, and out through the left-hand side of his nose. The exposed parts of his head received a local dose of 200,000 to 300,000 roentgens (2,000 to 3,000 Sieverts).[3]
On that luggage bit my usual is one of those “convertible” suitcase-backpack type bags where you can deploy shoulder straps for ease of carry but you can cram to fit the space. If it’s a really short trip and I know I won’t be on a regional then I will use my small roller case.
When my mother died 2 years ago there was no current will. There was a will that was so old it named my sister as my guardian. Like the question there are four of us. I don’t know if sizable is the right word but there was a house to sell and some savings. There was no question of doing anything but splitting it 25% each.
For the 4th of July question, the poll didn’t include, “celebrate? I’ve never really celebrated the 4th of July”. I’ve often done something because I had the day off. And I enjoy fireworks, so I’ve sometimes gone to see fireworks then.
But I don’t think anyone will be giving me a vacation day on Canada day, nor hosting fireworks. I’m going to a square dance event that is scheduled for “4th of july”, but I’ll actually be there on Canada day, too. But really, I just think of it as the IAGSDC convention.
We had a will that said to split everything equally. But I can’t imagine anyone having the moral (or legal) authority to do something other than an equal split without a will.