I have a trick to help along hesitant logs. First, you get some toilet paper over your fingers, then you press in at the soft spot right past the end of the tailbone. The sweet spot seems to be about half way between the tailbone and the bhole. Do it right and the log just glides right out with practically no effort and no pain.
The laundromats and carwashes don't seem that strange. My home "city" of not even half a million people has 20 laundromats I could find on Google Maps and more carwashes than would seem reasonable. I don't know what's a reasonable number of furniture and mattress stores because one big place sucks up most of that business, but even with that, we've got at least a dozen different places to get mattresses.
I never used it to begin with. It was always some old-timey gesture I only ever saw in media. The first time I did see it in person, it was used in a "Made you look and now I get to slap you upside the head" sort of game.
Instead of arguing and hair-splitting over exactly how evil this is, how about we just agree on the simple answer of "Yep, that's some evil shit" and focus the discussion more on what to do about it?
I didn't say they would. I said they could. Jokes aside, I would be VERY surprised if old Joe got picked for this, both for the reasons you mentioned and because of the decline he's been going through recently.
I have a trick to help along hesitant logs. First, you get some toilet paper over your fingers, then you press in at the soft spot right past the end of the tailbone. The sweet spot seems to be about half way between the tailbone and the bhole. Do it right and the log just glides right out with practically no effort and no pain.