{"id":2267,"date":"2002-07-18T10:36:39","date_gmt":"2002-07-18T15:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2002-07-18T10:36:39","modified_gmt":"2002-07-18T15:36:39","slug":"twiddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/18\/twiddle.html","title":{"rendered":"Twiddle"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s The Thursday Thumb-Twiddler<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1. One hot summer afternoon, while walking through a parking lot at a large shopping mall, you notice a dog suffering badly from the heat inside a locked car. What would you do?<\/b><\/p>\n

When I ran across this question, it resonated with me in the context of this story<\/a>, so I wanted to include it.<\/p>\n

At a mall, I’d try to contact security, either to see if they could find the owner, or else if they could open the car at least to get some air in.<\/p>\n

If there was no way for that to happen, and I really felt the dog was in imminent danger … I’d like to think I’d break the damned window.<\/p>\n

2. You are in a restaurant rest room. You notice an employee leaving without washing his\/her hands. Do you bring the matter to the attention of the owner or manager? If so, do you do it publicly or privately?<\/b><\/p>\n

I <\/i>would probably not say anything (and would probably try to rationalize not doing so), but Margie probably (rightly) would, though privately.<\/p>\n

\n3. What is one item you own that you really should throw away … but probably never will?<\/b><\/p>\n

I have all the correspondance I’ve ever had with anyone in various boxes. That includes past romantic (and marital) involvements. I keep them not out of any sense of romance, mind you, nor even of nostalgia per se<\/i>, but from a sense of History. On the off chance that I should become famous, for example (not that I can think of anything I should be famous for), it’s material that biographers would want access to. Or maybe my grandkids, or theirs, would find it of interest.<\/p>\n

Or maybe I’m just a pack rat. <\/p>\n

Or maybe my memory is so bad that, if I throw out stuff like that, it’s like throwing out concrete reminders of who I was. Heck, I wouldn’t go back and edit stuff out this blog, would I, if something were to happen to dramatically change any of the relationships I talk about here?<\/p>\n

I don’t read those letters. I don’t talk about them, and I really don’t even think about them. But I would be loathe to throw them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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