Comments on: Ethics question

By: pat

pat — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:52:31 +0000

when i was in new york there was a little tour guidebook on an information desk. along with maps and brochures and that kind of stuff.

so, yah, i took one. then when i was outside looking in vain for an entomology museum, i saw on the cover: $4.95.

er, whooops.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:17:46 +0000

I’ll have to try that! Saying, “It’s just my mind-control implant,” usually gets me strip-searched. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that…)

By: Leslie

Leslie — Mon, 18 Feb 2002 19:47:42 +0000

Nope, checkers are supposed to “check” your items. That means they are supposed to look. If I get to the car and find they didn’t ring up the fifty pound bag of DogChow on the bottom of the cart (that they always tell you in snippy tones NOT to lift up, they can see it) I figure the dogs will enjoy free food all the more!

By: Mig

Mig — Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:27:19 +0000

it was too late to share because gamma ate her pudding right away – she’s too smart. and melly, you know i wouldn’t play favorites with my girls. i love them both equally.

this was gamma’s first shoplift in a long time. we went through a phase when she was about two when she’d throw a big fit in the store, and everyone would sort of ignore her, and when we got home she had a couple things we never paid for, that we’d then return with apologies.

this time, we were sort of, eh, she’s already eating it; and as well, that store has sold us spoiled groceries so often, and always makes a fuss over taking them back. “What, so two eggs were rotten? But you want a refund for the entire half-dozen? How do you know the other four were rotten?”

By: melly

melly — Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:33:38 +0000

I hate parents who pick favorites.
For shame Miguel, For shame!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:54:56 +0000

Gamma clearly earned her pudding, the whole entire thing, every last bite.

Next time just be sure Beta forgets she’s got her favorite delicacy up *her* sleeve.

By: sue

sue — Mon, 18 Feb 2002 05:45:17 +0000

It wasn’t pudding, but I set off the alarm at a university library. Seems my briefcase had something in it that I had had on reserve–and was magnetized. No proble–I’m faculty, but it got pretty funny when it took almost ten minutes for them to figure out how to unlock the gate so people could leave.

As far as the pudding goes, Gamma should share the purloined pudding with her sister.

By: kittenesh

kittenesh — Mon, 18 Feb 2002 03:39:40 +0000

take 30 puddings, dude. pudding a day, man. pudding a day.

By: kd

kd — Sun, 17 Feb 2002 23:25:47 +0000

i’ve been quite absent-minded recently. twice, in the last few weeks, i’ve gone through the checkout forgetting an item that was in the top part of the basket, by my purse. twice, the bagger has noticed & said something like

By: space

space — Sun, 17 Feb 2002 13:44:14 +0000

“Quinn, let me put it this way: is there ever a bad time FOR PUDDING?”