Drive to work
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Topic: Drive to work
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Subject: Drive to work
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 11:28
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Just wondering.
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 11:34
| The fourth option. I don't go to work though. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 11:40
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The Cycle to and from work optimist
Seems like a very American Poll. ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 11:45
| Guess I'll go with the first option. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 11:50
i have no carlisence  , but i take the buss, and sometimes walk, or i would have cycled if i had a cycle
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 12:15
How so? I'm curious. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
akamaisondufromage wrote:Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 12:21
A good 50% of the people in my office (Including me) cycle or walk to work. I guessed that you didn't include other options as you didn't think of them or that maybe most Americans drive everywhere. A complete generalisation of course  Or I jusst missed the point of the poll? I too am curious?------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 12:27
| I work from my dining room. |
Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 12:35
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It would be very stupid of me to drive to work, optimist or not, for three obvious reasons: 1. I don’t have a car. 2. I don’t have a license. 3. My office is in my bedroom. ------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 12:39
I mean drive in a general sense referring to any mode of commute. I guess it is an American thing. I never really thought of it. Most people either drive or take public transportation to work here. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 12:51
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OH I get this now. Can't change my vote....but option 3 for sure. Even if it was a job that was fine, it's just nice to be going home. Either because I'm tired, or bored, or just am glad to be going home. Optimistic though. Try to keep a good mindset about going to work, so I usually feel fine. My latest job was 2-10 and later 4-12 so I never had to deal with traffic going either way. Especially going home at night, the roads are nice and clear. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 13:45
Would that mean that the other 50% of your office are American?
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 14:14
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^Probably not. I guess that the rest are aliens. They use teleportation.
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 14:22
Aaah no only one actually. I don't know how she gets to work, probably drives an enormous gas guzzler I suspect>
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 14:58
Took me a while to get the question. Drive from  ). ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 15:04
| I don't get it. :( |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 15:06
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Even though I like my job, I like going home better except when it's early on a slow day. Oddly enough a good chunk of the commute in the middle isn't along the same route because if I used the one way access road in the mornings, well...
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 16:29
I'm asking if you prefer your commute going from your house to your work or your commute going from work to your house. Then I'm asking if you would say that you are an optimist or a pessimist. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 16:31
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Option #4 just above #2, usually. ------------- 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 16:35
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Conservatory > Home - Pessimist
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 17:24
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I enjoy the drive home less because the traffic is generally worse (in terms of volume and density of the vehicles and general demeanour of the other drivers), even though the destination is certainly more preferable. If the traffic is bad in the morning - whoopee! I'm going to be late and it wasn't my fault - win-win.
I am, in all things, more of a pessimist than an optimist - I'd like to be an optimist but can't abide being disappointed all the time so it's never going to work for me. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 17:45
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 17:55
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 18:34
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The drive home from work, because I'm not going to work at that point. If you're speaking of traffic, then it really doesn't matter and I'm pretty lucky to be driving against traffic both ways. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 18:39
Pretty much describes me. Plus going to work means the eastern sun is in my eyes when leaving the neighborhood. And I'm going to say I'm generally optimistic. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 18:46
The sun is always in my eyes on my commute. I once came home from work at midnight and even though the sun had set, it somehow magically bore a hole right through the earth just to shine in my eyes.  Oh, and I lean towards pessimism, although I have to say the benefits of that are that I'm rarely disappointed and occasionally pleasantly surprised. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Lark the Starless
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 21:08
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Drive Home From School, Optimist (for the most part)
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Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 21:08
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I take the bus to work. Using a car for a single person to move oneself around the city is not only excedingly expensive, but also mostly bad for trafic and for one's health. Since the public transportation is rather good where I live, I don't see the point of using a car to go to work.
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 21:56
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Of course the drive home from work. It would be sad if one day I prefer to be anywhere else but at home, specially that anywhere being my job... (yes, this is sad too ).
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 22:33
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Drive home, somewhere right in the center of the optimist/pessimist scale, leaning more towards realist.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: December 01 2011 at 05:16
Thanks, makes sense now. I can't contribute, though, it always depended on the day and on the job for me, and also I can't decide whether I'm an optimist or a pessimist. :/ |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 01 2011 at 05:33
...or an aromatherapist. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 01 2011 at 06:57
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Rather sad to see most people driving home pessimistic.
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 01 2011 at 07:22
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better then driving home narcoleptic
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 01 2011 at 07:31
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: December 01 2011 at 08:08
I used to know a woman who was narcoleptic. It was a big problem for her, and the medication made her depressed. ------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: December 01 2011 at 09:58
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: December 01 2011 at 10:43
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I don't think my tendency toward pessimism has anything to do with my preference to be at home rather than at work. When they create the job where I get paid to drink beer, watch tv and listen to music, then I might actually like working. Until that time, work will remain a necessary evil. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: December 02 2011 at 13:23
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^ I agree. It turns out that a lot of people seem to think there's a correlation.
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: December 02 2011 at 14:19
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I would be quite a pessimist if I didn't like beig at home. -------------
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 02 2011 at 14:36
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: December 02 2011 at 14:41
Sometimes I do all three of them. I’m a translator, and every now and then I have a glass of something different than water while i work. ------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 02 2011 at 15:01
So when you're home you just drink something, watch something, and listen to something different? Maybe have sex, sleep, eat, dream or do you do that at work, too?  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: December 02 2011 at 15:09
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I do all those things at home. And at work. It’s the same place, you know. Sometimes I even work.
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: December 02 2011 at 18:17
Oh, I've had good jobs too. And I have even "enjoyed" some of my jobs. But even the best job in the world doesn't compare to being at home or otherwise really enjoying life. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 02 2011 at 18:30
Having a good job means you are engaged at work and get paid enough and not made to work too many hours to not be able to have the room or free time to enjoy yourself when you are not working. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: December 02 2011 at 18:33
And I've had those. And I still prefer goofing off 100% of the time to working. Work is something I must do to survive. Don't expect me to love it. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 02 2011 at 18:42
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I work to live more than I live to work. Also drive to work more than I work to drive. Balance is important. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 13:58
| I dont work and I dont drive. |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 14:05
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The Drive To Work, Optimist
Have no problem with work, especialy the drive, its rather short and i listen to great music every morning.
Apart from the unlikely situation, that i should suddently had millions to spend, im fine with the social connections and interlectual challanges, i get from work, and its far from able to make me pessimistic. ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |