Counting Washington DC as a different state, I put once a week. However, some of those journeys are just passing through to get from one part of Maryland to the other, and are almost completely underground, so maybe those don’t count.
Exactly that.
For the excessive (?) or at least sleeping in, I picked other.
For me it’s a scenario where I slept in really late because I had been up really late - so I’m still likely operating under insufficient sleep. In fact, this is not an exactly uncommon scenario for me. So for these situations I bitch about myself and then take an OTC sleeping aid (often a half dose) and get to bed. Because otherwise I’d be on the option of staying up late and trying to get at least a few hours of sleep, which never works properly. 
But without the sleep aid I’d be screwed in trying to get to bed “on time” in that scenario.
I would intend to get to bed on time; but, judging by my common experience, probably wouldn’t pull it off.
Alternatively, I’d conclude that I must be sick (since while I often sleep late, I haven’t slept into the afternoon since I was in college, which is some fifty years ago now) and, if at all practical, decide not to work the next day, or to see how I was when I woke up and probably start late. If I were working for somebody else, that would amount to calling in sick.
Couldn’t really answer the “out of state” poll because, like so many others, there wasn’t an option for “a few times a year.”
Answered “Something else” for the bed poll because there is no freaking way I would ever sleep in until 2pm. I never even did that in college. For the last mumble years sleeping in has meant getting up at 6am instead of 5am. If I’m ever in bed at 2pm, either I’m too sick to be going to work in the morning, or I’m in the middle of some serious Afternoon Delight and likewise won’t be going to work in the morning.
I was thinking about that- because I’d just get a little later- say 11? bedtime.
As for intra state travel- I live in CA. BIG state. I used to travel to AZ, NVand Baja, pretty often, then of course wherever the Government sent me to train new Treasury officers. Some trips to Canada and Alaska to visit relatives.
But Other than two trips to WDW, we havent left this state in a decade.IIRC
Other on the dish passing.
At the beginning of the meal, when everybody’s loading their plates for the first time, the pattern will be mostly circular; but often in both directions at once, and often with specific items being handed across because somebody in the loop doesn’t want something.
Later on, when people start having seconds and/or realizing there’s something they missed on the first round and want after all, most things will take the most direct plausible route from wherever they wound up to the person asking for them; so often across the table, but sometimes up/down one side or the other.
I wouldn’t call that entirely random; but it doesn’t fit well in any of the other choices, either.
I used to travel to visit friends several times. They lived 650 miles away. I never left the state. Although one time we did cross the Oregon border – barely.
About the residential parking, it depends. If everyone is using one side of the street and cars can get through, that’s fine. If cars are parking on both sides and you have to squeeze through, hoping your car is skinny enough? The hell with that.
I’ve never lost my glasses, and very rarely misplace them. I tend to put them down in the same place(s) if I take them off, or make a mental note of where I’m doing so.
If I’m given a plate of food that includes something I don’t like but that I know I should eat, either to be polite or because it’s good for me, I’ll tend to eat that first just to get it out of the way. Then I’ll focus on the hot food before it gets cold, mixing in bites of other food along the way. When I was a kid, I tended to methodically eat all of one thing, then all of another, etc., but not anymore.
We keep both margarine and butter in the fridge door. If my wife is going to be baking, she’ll keep a stick or two of butter out on the counter so that it’s soft. Margarine is soft and spreadable even if it’s cold.
We don’t buy eggs all that often - maybe a dozen every other week or so. I sometimes go months without eating eggs.
My answer to the traveling-out-of-state question didn’t neatly fit any of the options. I travel out of state maybe every other month, on average. We tend to do so more around the holidays, and for summer vacations.
If I’m working in my office, or walking, or driving in my car, I almost invariably have music playing. For walking or driving, I might listen to an audiobook instead, but it’s rare that I’m in silence. I find that boring.
I don’t mind people parking on the street in my neighborhood in the least, although overnight parking is prohibited by city ordinance.
I don’t mind people parking on the street, whether on one side or on both sides, as long as there’s enough room left open in the middle for traffic to get through. Unless the traffic’s quite light, that means enough room open for two cars going in opposite directions to pass each other.
Most of our rural roads aren’t wide enough for that; so town code says no parking on the street. In the villages some of them are, so you can park on the street in some areas there.
My suburban neighborhood does not allow street parking (sometimes, short-term, for visitors). In the city, it can really suck, bigtime, when you have to pull out into traffic to see if traffic is coming because large vehicles are taking up the sight-lines.
Same. And if there’s something I’m serving (slices of pie, or a roast, maybe), i sometimes serve the older guests before the younger guests before the family, and other times just start at the far end of the table.
At a family dinner I once announced at the beginning of the meal that we should pass food like we would a joint. The younger people immediately started passing to the left and those who didn’t get it caught on quick.
At the next family gathering my MIL reminded us “like passing a joint”.
Huh. I don’t remember rules about passing a joint in any particular direction; only the rule that yes you pass it.
Maybe in the 70’s we didn’t care. Or maybe (ahem) I just don’t remember . . .
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That’s really interesting. I had no idea, and I’ve been around more than my share of pot smokers, especially between 1990 and 2000. I suppose it could have been done and I just didn’t realize it, but it certainly was never mentioned.
I still don’t remember any rule about it. Nor do I remember any rule about two tokes, which were called tokes; I don’t think I ever heard anybody say “puffs”. It was far more likely to be one, because you inhaled and then held it in; if each person took two tokes, the joint would spend at least as long smoking into the air as being drawn on. And I never heard ‘don’t “babysit” the joint.’ The phrase was “don’t bogart the joint.”
It’s certainly possible that my info is out of date.
For sure my info is out of date since I am also out of date, but I’m in agreement with all your points, thorny. Babysit the joint? Not where I come from.