Saturday Scruples
These weekly affirmation things sure make for ease in content.
1. You suspect another parent at a co-op daycare of stealing $20 from your coat. This person is made treasurer. Do you alert the board?
"Alert" is too reactionary. If I could prove that my 20 spot was stolen by this person, I would have talked to someone about it prior to their move to treasurer, unless those two things happen simultaneously. I don't think I'd make a fuss, I'd just make people aware.
2. You're well-to-do. Your children, ages 24 and 26, ask you to settle part of their inheritance now. Do you?
No.
3. You've accepted a date to a movie when someone you really like asks you to a concert on the same night. Do you try to get out of the first date?
Perhaps, if there's enough time, the movie date could be rearranged. The concert date is obviously a little more permanent and fixed as they don't happen 60 times a week.
Comments
1. This actually *happened* to me. Except it wasn't another parent, it was just some guy. It wasn't a co-op daycare, it was the bar. It wasn't my coat, it was my purse. He wasn't made treasurer, he was made to look like a jackass. Since I'm the kind of girl who doesn't like to get her hands dirty, a volunteer alerted the board on my behalf. There was shouting between the board and the alleged suspect. I got the $20 back, had another drink, and mentally added myself to another psycho's 'Do Not Call' list.
2. Well-to-do people like myself cannot be bothered to settle any inheritance at the moment. Plus, I could disown them at any time, potentially meaning no inheritance. I'd just write them checks and ask that they run along. I might ask why they want the money, but I wouldn't really care.
3. Yes. Sorry, dude.
Posted by: Fash | February 2, 2003 1:04 PM