… it must be time for The Thursday Thumb-Twiddler.
1. Would you rather die peacefully among friends at 50, or painfully and alone at 80? Assume that most of those thirty years would be “good” ones.
I’ll admit that I’m chicken. In a vacuum, I’d choose the former. Unfortunately, I have a commitment named Katherine, and I am (ahem) way too close to my 50th birthday to check out that soon.
Isn’t that noble?
2. Your teen arrives home one night with a big dent in his car fender. You find out the next day there was a hit-and-run in the neighborhood. Would you try to find out if your kid was involved? If you found out s/he was, would you notify the authorities? What if there was a death from the hit-and-run?
That’s a tough one. There’s a real “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” strain in me — but also a desire to be honest (and raise Katherine the same way).
So, yes, I’d try to find out. And … yes, I’d report it.
And if there were a death involved? Hrm.
Secrets like that always haunt. The more they’re kept secret, the more harm they do.
Yeah, I’d have to.
3. What would the title of your autobiography be (not including your name)?
Hopefully something clever. Hmmm. Maybe that’s not a bad title. Hopefully Something Clever.