A friend of yours has had a novel published, but the genre is one that you have a mild dislike of. Your dislike is mild enough that you could probably get through it if you wanted to, but strong enough that you would pass on it if you didn’t know the author. Would you read it?
Yes
No
It would depend more on the friend than the novel itself.
You are an Ob-Gyn. You are in a blue state. You read in the news one day that a pro-life red state is suffering a catastrophic health crisis due to the lack of gynecologists in the region - thousands of women suffering from dire conditions. Many of those women are pro-choice.
The clinics and hospitals in the red states are offering salaries and benefits that are substantially higher than what you earn in your blue state, and without gynecologists, these women will suffer greatly, and a significant number will die. But you will face substantially greater legal risk in that state than the blue state, due to the pro-life laws.
Excluding Aldi and club stores because of their unique setups regarding bags, and putting self-checkout out of your mind for this question, what is the custom in your area in regards to what you are expected to do, other than pay, after a cashier rings your items?
Note: Let’s go with the local expectations in your area just for an adult shopper who is at that time fit enough to bag items, not folks who need temporary or permanent assistance
I’m expected to bag my items myself
I’m sort of expected to bag my items, but the cashier will do it or help if I’m slow to
I’m not expected to bag my items if there’s a bagger, and am expected to when there isn’t
I’m not expected to bag my items, regardless of whether there’s a bagger, but the cashier won’t mind if I do
I’m not expected to bag my items regardless of whether there’s a bagger, and will upset the cashier if I decide to myself
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In case there are areas that are truly without fairly uniform expectations even after ruling out the oddballs, unlike here, I’ve made this poll mutiple choice.
You have a rich loner-hermit neighbor, named Bob. He is very nice but has a mental disorder of some sort. Everyone likes him, but he rarely talks.
One day, you see a landscaping crew on his property. Intrigued, you watch closely. Turns out they are installing a big man-made pond on Bob’s property. Aerators are installed, water is piped in, everything is set up, it looks beautiful. Job takes a week.
Weeks later, you see Bob with a fishing pole, tackle, bait, sitting at the pond all day. He does this every day, but never catches any fish. You can see he is getting forlorn and frustrated.
Suddenly, it hits you: Bob never put any fish in the pond. He doesn’t realize the connection. You feel bad.
What do you do?
kindly explain to Bob that fish have to be put into a man-made lake
secretly acquire fish and put them into Bob’s lake one night while he’s asleep
