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Sunday, Sept. 07, 2003 - 9:28 pm

random thought: saturday scruples


Your bicycle has been stolen. At the police station you're shown an identical bike that isn't yours. Do you claim it?
hmmm... since it's "identical" i'm assuming that means there's no way i would know if it was mine or not, so i dont understand the part that says "isn't yours" because how would i know? either way, i'd claim it... when they found my bike, the person who lost the one i claimed could have it. lol

You're standing on a corner. Someone in a car smiles and waves at you. You don't have a clue who this person is. Do you smile and wave back?
i smile, but don't wave. you see... if you wave back, you risk being caught waving to someone who was really waving to the person directly behind you. i've done this. you look stupid. so if i dont recognize someone, or i dont really know someone well, i just smile and/or say hi - this way it's on them. if they were really talking to the person behind me, then they can wonder why they heck i said hi to them, or they just think i was politely smiling and saying hi in passing. if they were realling waving to me, then they can rest assured that i acknowledged them properly.

this actually reminds me of something that happened a while back, i'm not sure if i wrote about it... i'm too lazy to look. anyway, i went to the wawa and some older man standing next to a verizon truck yelled out to me. he said hi, asked how i was doing in school and what not. i was polite in responding and then entered the store. i was very reluctant to exit again because i was afraid of having to continue the conversation. when i did exit, the man came over to me. [i should interject that i DID work for verizon one summer and thought perhaps it was one of the guys i worked with, but i couldn't place him at all]. when he got over to me, he said, "you dont know who i am, do you?" and instead of acting like an idiot, i admitted to not knowing him. then he confessed he was lauren's father (a girl i went to school with, grew up with, used to play with, learned a lot from). anyway, as soon as he said it, i could picture him a little younger, when i last would have encountered him. it was still a little freaky though as it was night time and weird people lurk at the wawa at night.

You're buying a car from someone who has lost his job and needs to sell. Do you offer much less than it's worth?
hmmm. this is tough. i really dont know that much about cars, so i would probably have done research before going to buy this car about how much it'd be worth. and i think i would offer a little less than that as i'd want to make a deal, but not significantly less.