EXERCISE: More Dilemmas!

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Original posting 8 Jan 2012

Yeah! Pick a number from one to six, okay?

No, really. Pick that number now. We're waiting.

Got your number? Okay, here's your dilemma:

1. By mistake, a large department store has failed to bill your account for a VCR. Do you notify the store? (feel free to update that expensive piece of electronics -- DVD recorder, maybe?)
2. You are a homeowner. A social agency wants to establish a residence for seven retarded adults next door. Do you sign a petition opposing this step?
3. You want a child but your partner doesn't. Do you stop using contraceptives without your mate's knowledge?
4. A friend offers to hook you into pay-TV for $2.00. He says the risk of being detected is slight. Do you tune in?
5. You owe the bank $4,000 from a student loan. You have moved and the bank has failed to trace you. Do you repay the loan?
6. A co-worker at a large company is stealing from petty cash? Do you warn him to stop?

There you go. Six little problems, from ordinary life. Money, neighbors, secrets, pirate access, loans, and petty theft? Now, your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to add characters, setting, and all that good stuff, and tell us a a story, a tale of how someone faced temptation... and gave in? Or perhaps decided to stand firm for the right? What happened that night?

Go ahead, write it up!