I have a half-hour drive to and from work every day. For me, it’s a half hour of nice downtime. I do not get stressed out by traffic jams or A-hole drivers. I am comfy in my vehicle, I can listen to whatever music or podcast I feel like listening to (thanks, Apple CarPlay and Spotify), or sometimes I just enjoy the silence.
As in Guinness or Beamish? Who doesn’t like Stout? This is a trick question. There are plenty of folks that “think” they don’t like Stout who have never had a decent stout. But those people are merely coverts in waiting…
I like grocery shopping too. I don’t much like carrying in the bags once I get home or having to find places for everything in my messy cupboards but selecting the items at the store is fun. Some of my friends like shoe shopping. Nah, give me groceries every time.
I like reciprocal Google Location Sharing, which saves me and my hubby hundreds of “Where are you now?” text messages every year. Everybody we mention it to recoils in horror.
Especially with all TSA rules, checked baggage fees, less leg room, many people seem to loathe the flying experience.
I get excited every time i go to the airport. I fly maybe 9/10 times a year for business or pleasure. I like looking at all the airplanes. i like when the plane first moves back from the gate. i like when we get to the runway and i’m thrown back into my seat when they floor it. i look out the window the entire time, except when i am looking at the flight map. i like turbulence, it’s fun. I like when the wheels touchdown.
Yep. The Fountainhead as well.
Licorice (but I’m Dutch, so that doesn’t count I guess)
I’m all for (pickled) herring! I prefer inlagd silt (sold in the Ikea supermarket) to rolmops though. But my absolute favourite is Matjes. With onions, please.
Jenever, especially old jenever. And wodka. Goes well with the herring.
Menudo and other cloyingly sweet Latin pop like Lucero. Alongside Rammstein preferably.
Andrei Tarkovsky, especially Stalker.
Handspinning. On a spindle, no less.
Hijack:
The thing about Ayn Rand is (IMHO) that she was a refugee from the Soviet system. If you keep that in the back of your head while reading it, it still doesn’t make her philosophy a worthy goal, but you’ll get where she’s coming from at least.
Agree. I also do a couple of neighbors yards that are unable to do their own.
Not only did I beat a thunderstorm, I beat a straight line wind of 55+mph which knocked down trees and tree branches all over the place just as I was returning the mower to my garage.
I like that too. I even enjoy going to the drive-in theater alone; watching a movie in your car is somehow more “alone” than going to a regular theater by yourself. There’s also more room to spread out your snack food.