CHALLENGING QUESTIONS

[Allhallowsday]

... "Yeah," I said, posing a challenging question, "but based on what you've told me about your sex drive, could you afford to live on three-hundred bucks a month?"

[ER]

You and your partner in a criminal offense are arrested and put in separate cells. The interrogator tells you that if one of you confesses to your crime, that person will get five years in prison, while the one who does not confess will go to prison for twenty years. If you both confess, you each receive ten years, but if neither confesses, you both walk free. What do you do?

[RCMerchant]

^ Not confess, I guess.
Unless I really did it.

[RCMerchant]

Of course if my son or mother did it- f**k that. I ain't takin' the fall for that psycho.

[Rev. Powell]

You and your partner in a criminal offense are arrested and put in separate cells. The interrogator tells you that if one of you confesses to your crime, that person will get five years in prison, while the one who does not confess will go to prison for twenty years. If you both confess, you each receive ten years, but if neither confesses, you both walk free. What do you do?

Exercise your right to remain silent and ask for a lawyer. The interrogator is lying, he does not have the power to cut a deal like that. (Seriously, the police really will lie and tell you you'll get a better deal if you confess--don't believe them).

[ER]

You and your partner in a criminal offense are arrested and put in separate cells. The interrogator tells you that if one of you confesses to your crime, that person will get five years in prison, while the one who does not confess will go to prison for twenty years. If you both confess, you each receive ten years, but if neither confesses, you both walk free. What do you do?

Exercise your right to remain silent and ask for a lawyer. The interrogator is lying, he does not have the power to cut a deal like that. (Seriously, the police really will lie and tell you you'll get a better deal if you confess--don't believe them).

I think that's excellent advice!

[pacman000]

You and your partner in a criminal offense are arrested and put in separate cells. The interrogator tells you that if one of you confesses to your crime, that person will get five years in prison, while the one who does not confess will go to prison for twenty years. If you both confess, you each receive ten years, but if neither confesses, you both walk free. What do you do?

Exercise your right to remain silent and ask for a lawyer. The interrogator is lying, he does not have the power to cut a deal like that. (Seriously, the police really will lie and tell you you'll get a better deal if you confess--don't believe them).

I think that's excellent advice!

That's why The Prisoner's Delima is usually set in an unnamed foreign country with few protections.

[ER]

The man who was almost my father in law wants to pay for my children's school next semester because:

"Except for my daughter and grandson, you are the person I love most in the world, and my son would have wanted me to look after you."

It's a lot of money, but he's well-off. There are also no strings on the money, and he said no one else even has to know.

See, though..... while mostly I have a great relationship with this person, sometimes I experience moments of consuming anger at him because of the past, as he well knows, yet doesn't seem to hold against me.  (And which he sort of deserves, frankly, though I should be more in control of my feelings and more able to put my claims of forgiveness into action.)

The fact he offers help like this contributes to me feeling guilty about the occasions I get angry at him, which stresses me out, like this one night after Christmas when I was still awake at one AM wondering stream of consciousness style on an open message board if there isn't also an element of making amends in half the stuff this man does for me, because he's big into recovery programs as ongoing relics from his misspent and morally compromised younger days.

Oh wait, that's now.

The challenging question is: should I lie and tell him tuition is more than it is, so I can buy myself something too?

OK, kidding there, but seriously, it's beyond kind of him to want to do this for my girls and I wonder if my pride deserves to stand in the way of a gift this generous?

Truth is I already know I'll take the money, since it's for my daughters and it's a generous gift to them, and I think what really bothers me is.... I'm not bothered.

Make sense? No? Well it's me and so what else is new?

[RCMerchant]

^ Do it for your kids.

[Alex]

Never look a gift horse in the mouth. Take the money. There might come a time when you'll be very glad you did.

[Allhallowsday]

...

Truth is I already know I'll take the money, since it's for my daughters and it's a generous gift to them, and I think what really bothers me is.... I'm not bothered.
...

Don't you have a son? 

[ER]

...

Truth is I already know I'll take the money, since it's for my daughters and it's a generous gift to them, and I think what really bothers me is.... I'm not bothered.
...

Don't you have a son? 

Different school.

[ER]

When you'd rather not get into the discussion your answer is sure to launch, is there a polite way to field the question: "What are you reading?"

[Allhallowsday]

When you'd rather not get into the discussion your answer is sure to launch, is there a polite way to field the question: "What are you reading?"

These days, the polite answer is: "Pardon me.  I gotta go to the bathroom..."

[Trevor]

When you'd rather not get into the discussion your answer is sure to launch, is there a polite way to field the question: "What are you reading?"

I was asked this yesterday: I said the first edition of the TMNT graphic novel series.