May 31, 2007

Moral Dilemma

Dilemma :- You are standing in a small queue to withdraw some money out your account at your local bank ATM.

The queue goes down until it is just you and the person in front of you at the machine.

Just as the person at the machine is about to conclude their business they get a phone call, and completely forget what they are doing and walk away with their card in their hand.

You step up to the machine but as before you are able to insert your own card, oot pops a crisp £20 from the person in fronts account, who is even now still walking away unaware of what has happened.

So ... what would you do ? ( please comment with your answers and if you chose {i} then the funnier the better ) :-

a) stare disbelieving at it for while, unable to decide if this is a trick or not while the person walks round the corner.

b) take a good look at the person to see if you find them decent / attractive and thus worth making the noble gesture of chasing after them.

c) call out to them in a loud voice, hoping that they will hear you and run back to collect it.

d) discuss the matter with the other people in the queue to see what they feel is the right thing to do.

e) slyly palm the note and continue as if nothing unusual had happened.

f) hurry up your own transaction, so as not to lose your place in the queue, intent on chasing afterwards and returning it.

g) grab the note without any hesitation and immediately run after the person to return it to them.

h) slowly complete your own transaction and loiter at the ATM for a few minutes expecting them to come back at any moment and ask after the missing note.

i) something totally different

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This did actually happen to me a few minutes ago and I chose f) - only to lose my own place in the queue and have to wait another few minutes before getting my own money !!!

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Having had a few replies to this via email I hazard a guess at making the a very broad conclusions ( which of course are open to interpretation )

a) you are a pessimist believing nothing good ever happens to you ( probably single )
b) you are a hopeless romantic, believing that good things happen to good people and vice versa
c) you are a closet opportunist but don't want to appear too much of one in public
d) you are clearly indecisive and unable to make your own decisions ( probably married )
e) you are a very confident person and feel no regret in taking advantage of others misfortunes ( you are probably single but have had lots of affairs / one night stands )
f) you are a bit selfish and only prepared to help others if it does not inconvenience you too much
g) you are honest to a fault, the fault being that you often let others take advantage of your good nature
h) you are full of good intentions but also a worrier and prefer to do nothing than do something wrong
i) you are one in a million ... totally unique, unpredictable and noone knows the real you ( probably single )

1 comment:

mirk said...

Afraid to say being Scottish and tightfisted I'd err... err run after them straightaway and give them their money. Hard to believe but true.

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