To avoid the spectacle of a coin flip (also, I don't carry coins!), I do the geeky thing:
- Take the first printed word I see
- Sum the letters' ordinal positions ("ramen" == 18+1+13+5+14 == 51)
- Calculate modulus X for one of X choices (51 mod 3 == 0)
- Select option index Y, ordered visually, geographically, temporally, or alphabetically as appropriate, sometimes in reverse to be ornery (["alice", "bob", "eve"][0] == "alice")
And Alice is the winner.
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If I'm with another person who also can't decide, I skip the first two steps by asking them for a random number between 1 and (a random two digit number).
Then I just tell them whatever my secret preference was all along, and we watch the good movie together happily.
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If I'm with another person who also can't decide, I skip the first two steps by asking them for a random number between 1 and (a random two digit number).
Then I just tell them whatever my secret preference was all along, and we watch the good movie together happily.
Kidding about that last part. All movies suck.