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Every day is filled with terrible dilemas.
For instance, I was speaking at a well-to-do Sydney school today. I my talk I planned to make a joke about punching old ladies in the kidneys. Then the school headmaster arrived. What to do? Would he approve of such jokes? Would the pay off from the students (it’s the funniest joke in the talk) outweigh the potential distaste of the headmaster? Would he think I was encouraging his students to go on a senior citizen kidney punch rampage? Would I actually encourage a kidney punching rampage? It’s quite the dilemma. My job is stressful like that.
I made the joke. I don’t know what the headmaster thought. He did however shake my hand at the end and say something positive. I also didn’t see any students go out to punch old ladies, so I think I got away with it.
Then later at the office I was given a hollow chocolate egg. I ate it, but some of the chocolate escaped when I broke the egg and landed on my chair. I didn’t see this, and sat on the chocolate melting the chocolate to my bum. The dilemma then is, do you leave it and have brown stuff on your bum (bad look) or do you go to the bathroom and try and clean the chocolate off your bum by awkwardly rubbing it off your bum, while trying to look at your bum in the bathroom mirror. It’s a shared bathroom with the all the offices on our floor (bad look). Tough dilemma, poo pants or public restroom bum rubber.
I left it on. When I got home I couldn’t really see much chocolate staining. I think I made the right decision.
If I was good at writing I would have a third dilemma here to put here, but I think I only faced those two dilemmas of such magnitude. So I’ll just list the two. Except say when today while driving I had the chance to turn right through a gap in traffic and potentially hit two pedestrians, or I could wait longer for a pedestrian free gap. Obviously it’s not much of a dilemma. I took the gap and hit the pedestrians. It was an easy choice to make.
Did you have any dilemmas today?
Tomtime 2000 