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Local Man Completes 12-Step Program to Stop Checking Polls

Step 9 was apologizing to his phone. Step 12 is helping others put the phone in another room.

A suburban man celebrated 30 days without refreshing a poll aggregator, calling it “harder than dry January and twice as spiritual.” His sponsor is a retired weatherman who already accepted that forecasts are a vibe.

Doctors say poll-checking activates the same circuitry as slot machines, except the jackpot is being slightly more miserable with better charts.