Archive for May 29th, 2012

Moral Dilemmas

We had a nice Memorial Day weekend, visiting my sister and family. But the drive home presented me with two moral dilemmas.

Moral dilemma #1 occurred at the gas station. I had just started reaching for the gas pump when I heard someone call “Sir! Sir!”. I turned around to find a shorter, stockier man approaching me, asking if I had a tire iron. He proceeded to explain that his tire almost came off on the highway because the lug nuts were not tight enough.

While he was talking, I was thinking to myself “Where is the tire iron in the van?” I know where it is in my car, because I’ve had to use that one. But the van? I didn’t know exactly.
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