Things you like that everyone else seems to hate

I bet I"m alone on this one: Commuting.

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.

mmm

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 sobriety. :grin:

I like to watch movies on DVD/Blu-ray.

I don’t have to screw around with all the online B.S. Just stick it in the player and it plays, with full resolution.

Actually, I like almost everything that has been listed here. Some of them quite a lot.

Thrills gum and Sen-Sen.

Me. Plus if I own my favorites I never have to worry about their disappearing off the service.

This is true. And now they’re not as good as they used to be. But I still love them. Especially roasted, with just olive oil and kosher salt.

I liked it as a child, then developed an allergy later on.

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.

Flying.

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.

Mowing the lawn. Just finished doing it. Very satisfying.

Bonus satisfaction cuz I beat the upcoming thunderstorm.

mmm

Ok, I’ll come right out and say it here:

Atlas Shrugged.

And that’s from a left-leaning Democrat

My daughter recently brought over a batch of halvah she made (including chopped pistachios) from a jar of tahini I’d given her. We’re huge fans!

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.

What people seem to forget is that there’s a whole lot more to her philosophy than her politics.

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. :slightly_smiling_face:

Kidneys in a steak and kidney pie