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

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1. An eccentric millionaire offers to donate a very large sum to a charity of your choosing (other than you) if you’ll step, completely naked, out of a car onto a busy city street, walk four blocks through the noontime traffic, and climb back into the car. Knowing that you would be in no physical danger, would you do it?<\/b><\/p>\n

Assuming “physical danger” includes arrest … yeah, for a frickin’ large donation, sure. I’m conversant enough with dissociation to simply buzz my way through the spectacle.<\/p>\n

Hope I’d get a month or two of advance notice, though, so that I could shed a few pounds …<\/p>\n

(How much is “frickin’ large”? No clue. Knowing a bit about charitable outreach budgets, I know how much good $100K could do for some of those organizations, even though that feels like it would be cheap to do it for that little.)<\/p>\n

2. As a follow-up to the above, how would you rank the follwing in terms of relative unpleasantness — (a) a nude stroll in public, (b) being spat upon by a crowd of people, (c) being arrested for shoplifting at a crowded store, (d) begging for money in a public place.<\/b><\/p>\n

Unpleasant for me? (d), (c), (a), (b). I’ve dealt with public scorn, and while I’m not exactly proud about my body, I’m not that timid about it. But things that I would feel to be shameful, that would be asking others to judge me and my worth, that would show “how low I’ve sunk” — those would be by far the hardest.<\/p>\n

(I don’t think that’s necessarily reflected in my feelings toward folks who are panhandling, just in how I would feel if I<\/i> had to panhandle.)<\/p>\n

3. Enough unpleasantness. If you could travel back in time to meet anyone in your family’s history, who would it be?<\/b><\/p>\n

Jeez, any number of people. I’ve some family three or four generations back who were founding members of Tucson, and I’d love to learn more about them. My great-grandfather on my dad’s side is a dead end, so far, genealogically, and I’d very much like to learn more about him. And, on the other hand, I’d love to meet my mom’s folks when they were a lot younger. (Heck, I’d love to meet my parents <\/i>when they were a lot younger.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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