A moose once bit my sister.
Yikes. I’ve been bitten by a mouse. A goose bit my pants and my shoelaces, but she didn’t get me.
I’ve told my “pet goose” story a number of times - suffice it to say that during our “play,” that mean sucker bit me more than once. Before my parents killed and cooked it.
My exact thought on this.
I’ve been bitten by a number of cats and an occasional dog.
Luckily (though it hasn’t all been luck), almost none of them really meant it.
When I first met my gf she had a domestic goose named Guzman. He was 20, which is getting up there for a goose. He was friendly with her, but would attack me. He once snuck up, grabbed my thigh, and twisted really hard, giving me a nasty bruise.
He went on to live 8 more years!
Why a duck?
The taking-a-job-with-no-training-or-experience poll needs a “none of the above” option.
I’m somewhat unnerved to discover that some of us think they could do a good job as SCOTUS judge with no training or experience. I suspect people are thinking of a specific decision or so that they disagree with.
I’ve met a lot of CEOs in my life and a disturbing number of them suffered from serious delusions of competence. I’m not saying I’d be a stellar one but given some of the people actually running corporations I could likely keep an already-functional company afloat without too many issues.
Because the chicken was already spoken for.
Agreed - I fail to understand CEO worship. The number of entrepreneurs who completely fail to run a sustaining business is astounding. I’ve met four different CEOs (for my same employer), and was not impressed by three of them. The fourth founded and grew the company, knew that his skill set was building but not sustaining a business, and sold it off.
That’s not the way I read it. I interpreted the question as asking “Which of these would you be least incompetent at, if you had to do one” which is not the same as claiming to be able to do a good job.
Supreme Court cases take months or years to process. If I’m only there a month, the court will be no worse than if there had been a vacancy for a month. If the issue is obvious, I can vote. If it’s too complicated, I can recuse myself. At worst, the court will have a 4-4 tie, and they will have to try again next year.
Cabinet positions often have vacancies longer than a month. If the assistants are competent, we can tread water until my replacement takes over.
As for the CEO job:
I really hated being unemployed.
I would not want to be responsible for firing people.
If I wrecked the company, I might be responsible for hundreds of people becoming unemployed.
That would really suck.
Hmm, i guess i could also just refuse myself from every supreme court decision. I thought we had to do at least part of the job too count, though.
I took it to mean “no additional experience.” I’m well trained to do the job with no further training and would excel at it. After a month I fully expect I’ll get a lifetime appointment due to my exemplary temporary service.
I suppose it would depend on the company whether I could come anywhere near pulling it off. For one thing, I am running a company – a very small one, currently consisting, as far as humans go, of me myself and I. For another, for some companies, if the CEO just stays out of the way and refrains from actively messing anything up, things will run pretty well for a month on that basis – though even then, it might depend on the particular month; what if there’s some unexpected crisis and that technique won’t work?
I was assuming it would be CEO of a large company, not a small one where the CEO does more than manage. My husband’s company, for example, has four working co-owners, and the place wouldn’t run for a whole month if one of them was incompetent because they all fill important roles aside from management. In a big enough company, the CEO has enough sub-directors and assistants that the place should be able to coast for one month with someone at the helm who does nothing but take good advice.
I also think I could act competently, but acting is one of those professions (like teaching or writing) that everyone’s seen done enough that we’re generally overconfident about how well we’d do. I got wonderful reviews in my school play back in 1977!
re: ice cream trucks - I miss Choco Tacos. 
Yeah, I did OK in drama club back in high school. But I’m not sure that now I could even stand to sit still for the makeup and hairdo crew. Which, come to think of it, we did very little of back in high school.
Easy peasy. I’ve acted in school plays, been on TV as a presenter/lecturer/demonstrator, and have been a teacher in a classroom for the last 36 years. Unless I’m being dropped into the daily grind of soap opera lead, no problem. I’ve worked crew, too.
As for President…well, the bar got a lot lower on that one in the last 6 years or so.
Request clarification on the definition of “broken heart.”
Consider the “Jesse’s Girl” situation:
A loves B.
B loves A.
C loves B.
Now, technically, B has never actually rejected C, but C knows full well that B would.