Multiple Choice
Participants
Man No. 1
White, silk, long-sleeved shirt
Red with small gold paisley pattern silk necktie
Black dress pants of unknown brand, but most assuredly, very expensive natural materials
Black, polished leather shoes (unknown at Pic-Way or Shoe Bazaar)
Hair on his head, most certainly a hairpiece because the color in the bright morning sun does not quite match the hair just above his ears
Clean-shaven face
Man No. 2
Eastchester Dragons faded baseball cap
Faded, drab green, 3-button placket polo shirt (as seen in 360° mirror on "What Not To Wear")
Old Navy blue jeans (torn at right knee)
Beat-to-hell fisherman's sandals
Bald
Beard and moustache
Location: Starbucks
Time: 7:10 a.m.
Man No. 2, with one Venti Mocha in each hand, approaches the only door of the establishment to leave.
Man No. 1 closes the driver's side door of a black BMW 325i and strides quickly across the parking lot driveway, stopping a Lexus SUV in the process, and hops up onto the sidewalk in front of the clear plate glass door of Starbucks.
Man No. 2 pushes the door open with his right foot and catches it with the back of his left hand, which holds a venti 3-pump Mocha.
Man No. 1 steps in front of the doorway inside the radius cut by the open door, blocking Man No. 2's path out of Starbucks.
What happens next? (Choose one only -- explain your rationale.)
A. Man No. 2, showing due deference for the obvious societal status of Man No. 1, holds the door open for Man No. 1, who does not, because of his station in life, thank Man No. 2.
B. Man No. 1, realizing that he should be polite, holds the door open for Man No. 2, who thanks Man No. 1.
C. Man No. 1 stands in the doorway, apparently waiting for Man No. 2 to hold the door open and yield, whereupon Man No. 2 says to Man No. 1, "Excuse me, chief, you're in the way," and starts toward his white VW Beetle with a black "The Who" sticker on the back bumper, to which action Man No. 1 responds by backing out of the way. Man No. 2 then thanks Man No. 1.
Posted by Bill at June 24, 2004 01:18 PMIt is C. I am right, aren't I, aren't I, aren't I *smiles*
Posted by: Michelle at June 24, 2004 01:37 PMHmmm. This is a tough one. Okay, it's NOT B, because Man No. 1 would not be polite, due to his obvious societal status (ooh, that was bad).
BUT, history tells me that Man No. 2 wouldn't show any due deference for societal status of Man No. 1, eliminating choice A.
Therefore, by process of elimination (and because Man No. 2 showed some attitude, which I believe would be pretty much right on), it has to be choice C. I gotta agree with Michelle.
Do we win a prize if we're right? I gave reasons. :)
Posted by: Keri at June 24, 2004 07:31 PMOk...I'd love to play along but I can't stop laughing at your code error.
Ask Stacey to fix it and I'll come back when I can see through these damn tears of laughter.
;)
Posted by: Kathy Howe at June 24, 2004 11:56 PMOK, you almost lost me by throwing in those gratuitous venti mocha whatevers, but I think I've got it. C. Beacuse anyone who drives a white VW beetle with a black "The Who" sticker don't defer to anyone, nor does he put up with any crap from pretty boys.
What was the code error?
Posted by: TW at June 25, 2004 09:42 AMI was going for A but you are not a walkover like me. They do it in their cars too
Posted by: Anji at June 25, 2004 11:54 AMThe code errors were difficult to read around, but they didn't make me cry... It IS a lot easier to read now, however. Did Stacey really have to fix it for you? That's cute.
Posted by: Keri at June 25, 2004 04:02 PMthe really funny thing is that the ONLY COMPUTER THING bill is anywhere near better than me at is html. i do very, very, VERY little of that.
true story: i had to show him a couple weeks ago all the things you can do/access by "right-clicking." a COUPLE WEEKS AGO.
Posted by: Stacey at June 25, 2004 05:44 PMROFLMAO at Stacey's comment!
Posted by: Kathy Howe at June 26, 2004 12:59 AMOf course it was "C". Choices "A" and "B" were obviously thrown in simply to confuse the casual reader.
Posted by: Philip at June 26, 2004 10:04 PM