Showing posts with label social dilemmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social dilemmas. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

What Would You Do?



You are in Staples looking for photo cards and paper and some other things when all of a sudden you're hit in the upper chest with something, you don't know what, til you look down and see a Rubik's Cube size cube of Post It Notes rolling away from you. "Jeez," you say, "that hurt!"

You step out of the aisle and see a small boy running away followed by a smaller little girl. You call out loud after him and her, "Hey that hurt! Did you throw that? " You realize the cube must have been thrown from the aisle next to you, up and over the top. The children ignore you.
Some tingling pain lasts a few minutes.

You see the boy and girl later when you're looking at covers for your Blackberry phone. They are running again. You watch them go.

At the cashier's you see them again with their mother and father. It would be easy to tap either kid on the shoulder and speak to them

WHAT DO YOU DO?

  • Speak harshly to them and show them where a black and blue mark is already developing;
  • Speak to the parents and tell them what their kids (the boy who was the oldest was probably the one who threw the cube) did;
  • Tell the manager what the kids did;
  • Tell the manager and expect some sort of compensation;
  • Do nothing.

If you can think of something else you'd do, write about that...

Put you answers in a comment, okay? I will tell you what I did at the end of the day tomorrow.