Same here. One cat likes to lick the plate after I am done, that’s about it. The cats have their special little bowls.
How else would I get an eggy plate ready for the dishwasher? That’s what dogs are for.
In our house it’s called the puppy prewash.
I mostly get around by driving, but i also sometimes walk or take public transit. Often, i drive to a bus or train.
I’m in favor of upgrading our public transit infrastructure.
Didn’t have anything to vote for
I get that people might use a different form of transportation sometimes, that’s precisely why I used the word “mostly” in the poll.
Vote for the one that you use most of the time, e.g. for the majority of trips you take.
I’m the one of the many who voted for “mostly by car, but I’d use something else given a choice”.
Driving to me is a chore I do to get to the places I want/need to go. If there was reliable, nearby public transportation, I’d use it. But the closest any existing public transport gets to me is 1/2-3/4 of a mile away as the crow flies, and I’d have to use 2-3 transfers from there to get to my closest grocer store as an example. Possible? Yes. Effective? No.
And that’s leaving out the weirdness of local long-distance transport, where flying to my most frequent destination takes more time than driving the 630 miles due to the airports servicing the area, pathing, parking, and TSA times!
I personally would love fully functional all electric self-driving public cars/taxis, that you call up in an app and they come take you where you want and back while I comfortable read while it does the work with no upfront and ongoing costs of car ownership. Or efficient and wide spread public transport.
When I lived in America (most of my life), public transit was terrible. I drove when I had to, bicycled when I could.
I now live in a city with excellent public transit, and I rarely drive, and it’s better.
What I wouldn’t give for a viable national passenger rail system, though! Why nations as large as the US and Canada think that cars and airplanes are the way to go, I’ll never figure out.
I live in the mountains in a semi rural area. Biking is not an option even when I was young enough to do so. Nothing is close enough to walk to. And there aren’t enough riders to justify public transit. I was an Uber driver years ago and even that is not a viable option locally. Until teleportation becomes a reality, I’ll keep my car.
That would be lovely. At least, supposing I could count on the car to react at least as well as i can to cats, dogs, chickens, the occasional loose cow, tractors, buggies, and so on in the road. I don’t think the technology’s there yet.
The county I live in is attempting to develop public transport. There is sometimes a bus whose closest route point takes it, I think, about half a mile from here and from there follows a circuit that would effectively take me all day to get anywhere and back home again, and which doesn’t go everywhere I need to go. I drive.
The cats have their own plates and the dog his own dish, but I very often give the cats my dishes to clean out. The dog gets his treats in his own bowl. Since the dishes all get washed before I use them again not giving them to the dog isn’t very logical, but I will point out that the cats like their food fresh but the dog is happy to gnaw on something he found in a field that’s been dead for a week. Or longer.
Oh, agreed, that’s why I specified “fully functional all electric self-driving public cars”. They aren’t there yet, and I bet things will be extremely complicated where the self-driving cars are… fine… but our fellow human drivers and their lack of attention are the proximate causes.
I lived in San Francisco for a decade, less than a block from the nearest transit stop, and walking distance from my primary job. In ten years, I put about 8000 miles on my car.
The Las Vegas valley, on the other hand, has a woefully inadequate public transportation system. I’m back to driving pretty much everywhere, but I’d much rather use transit if I could.
I did about 200 on Saturday, just for fun.
Mrs Magill put in nearly 5000 miles in the last three weeks.
That’s a lot! Was that vacation or is that routine/ is she a professional driver of some sort; I bet that’s not that uncommon for a long-haul trucker.
We live just south of Nashville. Beginning July 5th, she drove our oldest back to Ft Hood, where he’s stationed and stayed with him for a week. While there, she drove up to Plano for a day to visit her office there. She returned home on the following Friday (That’s almost 2000 miles right there.). The very next day, she took our youngest to Raleigh for NC State Engineering camp. She then went to Charlotte to stay with her parents and visit her Charlotte office. After she picked up our youngest from camp, the embarked on The Great Northeastern College Tour. Over the next six days, they went to DC, State College, PA, Buffalo, NY (with dinner/sight seeing detours in Niagra, ON), Toronto, ON, Ann Arbor, MI, Chicago, IL, and Columbus, OH before returning home.
I married a crazy woman.
My vacation this year was only 16-1700 in 8 days; of course that was mostly with a car club, so 150-200/day driving with others + there & back home
I sometimes let my cat lick my plate after I’m done eating. The problem is that he doesn’t understand the concept of “done eating”. So if I’m eating something he really likes, like eggs with runny yolks, he’ll jump on the table and attempt to lick my plate while I’m still trying to eat.
I had to look this up.
That one verse maybe should not be listed-
The stockman thus emancipates his indigenous offsiders at his death because they are “of no further use” to him. Fellow Australian Horrie Dargie objected to this verse and when he released his cover version in May 1960 Dargie deliberately removed the offensive lyrics.[13] Dargie’s rendition reached No. 34 on the Kent Music Report (back-calculated) Australian singles chart.[14] This verse did not feature in Harris’s 21st-century versions of the song and, in a 2006 interview, Harris expressed regret about the racist nature of the original lyrics.[15]
Nirvana is much better than Guns’n’Roses (and a different genre), and rather better than Pearl Jam.
I didn’t vote in any of the other pairs; no obvious winners in any of them, for me.