I have horribly sensative teeth, so I use straws for really cold or really hot stuff. It helps a bit. I don’t use them at home as much, however.
When I don’t want a straw and a waitperson is handing me one, I just tell them, no thanks, so it saves everyone the dilema of a good straw being tossed* out. Or if there is an unused one left, I take it home. I have a few stashed in my car too.
*And yes, any halfway decent restaurant will not reuse anything left on the table.
Hot coffee + me driving = straw!
CMC +fnord!
Unless you go to an actual tobacco shop, your more likely to find them if you ask for chenille stems. :rolleyes:
But, real pipe cleaners can also be found with stiff nylon bristles mixed with cotton, much nicer for real scrubbing!
If a straw is provided, a straw will be used. Why on earth not?? I imagine those of you non-straw types are the same people who insist on using chopsticks in chinese restaurants even though there is perfectly good silverware on the table.
Actually, I am a straw user, but I insist on chopsticks when eating Asian, it is easier than a fork. Hell, I’d eat with chopsticks exclusively if it wouldn’t drive my family nuts to have every moronic yokel in the place staring at me while I eat.
I use straws at restaurants, but I don’t buy them and use them at home.
This is very strange that it’s the norm when dining out, yet it’s somewhat odd to use at home.
I don’t like straws, and I wish restaurants would quit trying to force them on me. It’s easy to ignore a wrapped straw left on the table, but it seems like they always put a half-wrapped straw in my drink for me, and I have to take the drippy straw (and the sticky lemon slice) out and lay it aside. It’s wasteful and messy.
I always use them with an iced drink. I hate having ice hit my teeth/lips as I’m trying to drink.
One of my roommates is a “guys don’t use straws” type, but I don’t buy it. If I’m not having a hoppy IPA, I’m having a gin & tonic (NO lime), and I challenge anyone to claim those aren’t manly enough. 
I fibbed a little in my OP - I do use straws when I got a soda at a convenience store. Because I generally do that when I’m on the road - straws are safer in a car.