Paula's Ponderable for This Week

[Mrs. Fatdog]

Much like last week's burning building dilemma, I have something else to make you think...

Walking along an empty street you see a homeless man living in a cardboard box, passed out drunk (not a stereotype, you can actually see broken bottles and smell him). You see his 2 signs "will work for food" and "need cash, please help". he appears to be up in age and appears to have been homeless for some time.

Behind him in his shopping cart / bardboard box you see it with an angellic glow (hell, you hear the angels singing) ..... your most desired boombox in perfect condition.

What do you do?

There's no one around to see you, you have ample time to leave, AND you just remembered that you won the local football pool at the office and have $100 of unexpected cash.

If the open ended scenario is too much for you, how about these multiple choices:

A) Wake the poor soul and offer to buy the box for $100
B) Take the boombox
C) Take the boombox and leave the $100 in it's place
D) Leave the boombox and give the man the $100

No catch, not judging your answer, just something to make you think

 

[rustoleumbloodstream]

id go buy fifty bucks worth of beer and fifty worth of sandwiches i dont think hes gonna pass on a trade like that

 

[mmcodomino]

Easy choice.
Gibe the man 50$, take the boombox and return the next day with some food and a nice and warm blanket for him or some food vouchers you got for the other 50 dollars and give him a non-grail radio from your collection .

The dilemma would be if the cardboard box he slept in was the original box of that JVC M90 I just got from him .

 

[Mrs. Fatdog]

Easy choice.
give him a non-grail radio from your collection .

LOVE IT! Didn't think of that...a trade indeed

The dilemma would be if the cardboard box he slept in was the original box of that JVC M90 I just got from him

I'm sure you could go to Sears, HiFi Buys, or Best Buy and find him a refrigerator box to trade too

 

[BMoney]

C) Take the boombox and leave the $100 in it's place

 

[mmcodomino]

I'm sure you could go to Sears, HiFi Buys, or Best Buy and find him a refrigerator box to trade too

None of these three shops exist in Germany

 

[Mrs. Fatdog]

None of these three shops exist in Germany

Whoops
How about: your local Hela Baumarkt, Hornbach, or MediaMarkt?

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

YOUR NOT THROWING BOBBY OUT ARE YA? If so, send him onto the streets with the M90!

I like the leaving food idea, cause he can't throw that away on wine!

I like the leaving another lesser radio with him, so he still has something....maybe with fresh batteries!

I think I'll go with A) Wake the poor soul and offer to buy the box for $100

 

[mmcodomino]

None of these three shops exist in Germany

Whoops
How about: your local Hela Baumarkt, Hornbach, or MediaMarkt?

That's more like it

 

[Mrs. Fatdog]

YOUR NOT THROWING BOBBY OUT ARE YA? If so, send him onto the streets with the M90!

Momma ain't no fool

I've been Mrs. FD long enough to know that when I do throw him out, the boxes stay with me. And I will either hold one helluva auction or hold them ransom to get him to undo whatever he did that got him the boot to begin with

 

[BENDYCAT]

I say i'm angel checking up on him and that i will give him $100 but must take some thing back to show i have done my work - the box will do
if he doesn't then i tell him i'm the devil and say that i'm giving him achance to make some money by letting me having the box and thena for $5 out of the £100 he can go buy anther 90's box that will do as i need that box

weather he belives me or not he should see sence in one of the ways work for both of us

money is money - life is life - the choices to both are not always up to us

 

[redbenjoe]

C

plus leave him an all working // easy to carry box --
with new batteries -
and some appropriate soul tunes

 

[mmcodomino]

C

plus leave him an all working // easy to carry box --
with new batteries -
and some appropriate soul tunes

"I need a dollar"

 

[Fatdog]

I've been Mrs. FD long enough to know that when I do throw him out, the boxes stay with me.

I just want y'all to notice that she stated "when" - not "if". :'-(

 

[redbenjoe]

DIBS !!!
on the future ex-fatdog collection

 

[MasterBlaster84]

I've been Mrs. FD long enough to know that when I do throw him out, the boxes stay with me.

I just want y'all to notice that she stated "when" - not "if". :'-(

I caught that Bobby, you haven't already done something wrong have you?


I think I'd go with A just because I might not go back If I chose the $50 and another box idea.
If he said no to A then I might have to go to C.

 

[floyd]

i think if the person had only a boombox and clothes to wear then they are probably pretty attached to the radio to go through the trouble of carrying it around .

so i would offer them a fair price just to make us both happy plus offer them a radio in exchange just so they would have something to listen too.

I don't think i could take advantage of someone who's down on their luck just to get a radio ,but if they are a prick then i would think about it and offer them crap just to see what happens .

 

[Terry]

You have homeless people in America?

 

[MR.GROOVE]

I cant believe that it is someone's own choice to be homeless and unemployed in this time of crisis..so instead of robbing him from the last things he has got i would wake him up and give him the 100 dollars i have just won..the box will surely come another time..

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

YOUR NOT THROWING BOBBY OUT ARE YA? If so, send him onto the streets with the M90!

Momma ain't no fool

I've been Mrs. FD long enough to know that when I do throw him out, the boxes stay with me. And I will either hold one helluva auction or hold them ransom to get him to undo whatever he did that got him the boot to begin with

I've been Mrs. FD long enough to know that when I do throw him out, the boxes stay with me.

I just want y'all to notice that she stated "when" - not "if". :'-(

Sorry Bobby, just know I'm in the same boat! The sad part is, Mrs Lasonic has the power to throw me out from 6,500 miles away!

You have homeless people in America?

82% of the population now! :'-(