Situation Sunday

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#1} Someone has left a small baby on your door step. The note says that the baby is 6 months old and they can not raise it any longer; a brain tumor is consuming the mother and she has nowhere to turn, she feels that a orphanage and the courts system will not help, and begs in the note for you to raise [the child]. She has enclosed 1/4 of a million dollars in cash to help......What do you do?

In the real world, I'd call the police and work through the legal system to do as she wished. In the real world, I wouldn't stand a chance in hell and all that money would be used for the court battle.

In fantasy land, I'd just raise the baby. Hope it's a cute one! :-)

#2} A parent has passed away; you are one of the siblings that have inherited the monetary amount of their assets. You and two other siblings have equal share. There is a fourth sibling that received nothing but a mention in the will; the mention is that the parent has given so much to the fourth child over the years as they blew all their own money on drugs. The parent has supplied cars, food, paid the bills, covered the mortgage. All of it is there in the will, and all have received a copy of it. Also by now the fourth child has cleaned up their act and has been drug free for 1 year. What do you do, or react, or say to the fourth child?

I'd be really tempted to hand over, pass through, my entire inheritance to a charity, maybe a drug-rehab program in this case. Since there's NO WAY this will happen in my real life, that's my answer. I can't imagine being in this situation at all. Sorry.

#3} You are hiking alone, up a dried ravine that you have stumbled across. As you start to explore and go farther along....a boulder falls and lands on your right leg. Try as you might you cannot free it. You have no cell phone, and no-one is around for miles. You wait 3 days hoping someone would come by...no luck. Could you use your pocket knife and cut your leg free? What do you do?

No, I couldn't cut my leg off. I mean, quite literally, I could not. Especially if it were the femur. That is pretty close to impossible, it being the largest bone in the body, not to mention cutting the femoral artery would cause immediate bleed-out and death. I have to say, though, that I would not, as an adult, EVER go hiking alone without leaving my general whereabouts with someone back home. This would simply not happen. They'd find me before a day went by.

Why do I know this? Because I used to wander around the mountains when I was growing up, doing some really incredibly stupid things. I wouldn't do those things again. But my parents always knew where I was going before I left. That was a completely unspoken but firm rule.