I know I’ve read about this somewhere else, but I can’t find it with a search. If this is a repeat, I apologize.
Suppose you and your SO are kidnapped and brought to locations where you have no contact with the outside world, including each other. You and your SO are both told the same thing: you will be held without any outside contact until any day of your choosing (within one year). On that day, you will be taken to any place on Earth of your own choosing. If you and your SO are within 100 yards of each other, you will both be set free. Otherwise, you will be killed. If you have not chosen a day and place within 1 year, you will be killed.
This sounds like some kind of Ultimate Newlywed Game or something.
“What would your wife say is her favorite place in the whole world?”
“Uh… Paris?”
“Sorry, she said Rome. Rome is her favorite place in the whole world.”
kabloom
“Next contestant.”
Seriously, my wife and I travel so much I doubt we share the exact same opinion of what our favorite place is. And I’m not sure if I should try to guess hers, for fear that she might be trying to guess mine, and we still end up in different places.
The date would be easy enough–our wedding anniversary.
Location would be tough–either our house (most obvious) or the base of the Eiffel Tower (since Paris is her favorite city, and le tour is the most obvious/iconic spot). I would have to go with the former but I may not be so lucky.
Place would be okay, it would be home. Geez, I hope someone fed the cat while we were gone.
Date would probably mess us up. We disagree on what is the most important date to us. You would think that would be obvious, but he thinks the most special date is the anniversary of our first date. Anyway, I’d get caught up going back and forth between “is he going to pick the date that is most important to him, or is he going to think that I will choose the date most important to me so then he will change his pick to that date? Or will he assume that I will change my pick to the date most important to him?”
But I guess we’d be okay either way, because any date is within a year of any other date, right? Or am I missing something?
I am definitely going to ask when he gets home from work so we can be prepared.
She didn’t say only married couples. So anniversary sure isn’t going to work for me.
I don’t see why today and home wouldn’t work. If you’re not counting those answers and it’s only location…yeah, we’d find each other, I think. We’d both guess around the Albany area, which after all, is home.
If you’re adding a random day within a year, no chance - except we would both take the shortest time frame. So if you said, “You have to wait a month” then it would be a month and a day, wouldn’t it?
Again - everyone would do this. So I’m not sure how this is hard.
That’s for people who are lucky enough to live with/ be married to the love of your life. Not all of us are that lucky.
I gues if I had to gamble, I’d gamble on the Borders in Concord where we met. I’d have to think he’d be thinking the same thing. Although we have a lot of special places.
You and your SO will need to choose a date and a place. You get one chance only. If you say today and home and your SO picks May 25th and home, you both lose.
While it is interesting to see the mix of answers between anniversary/now and home/place of first date, I’m much more curious to know if anyone actually posed this to their SO and if they matched up or not.
Anaamika - look at the variety of answers to see why this is somewhat hard, especially for married couples. Many of the responses refer to anniveraries and special places, while others take the approach you did and said today and home. It is actually pretty evenly split so far. In other words, based on the statistically completely insignificant results we have so far, there is a 50/50 chance of meeting up with your SO!
Not for us – neither me nor my husband can remember our wedding anniversary. I can’t remember it right now – it’s either the 22nd or 23rd of February. Personally, I’d go with ‘home’ and ‘today.’ I’ll try to remember to ask my husband tonight when he calls.
