Sunday, May 01, 2005

Multiple Choice

Sometimes it is not easy to write anything. Sometimes you can stare at the blank screen for a long time and nothing will appear. Nothing appears because you have not written anything. You have not written anything because you cannot think of anything to write. Or maybe you have thought of something to write, but as soon as you have written it, it strikes you as very boring, and you know that there is more than enough boring stuff out there without adding to it. So you delete it. Banished! Good riddance! And the screen is blank once more. Perfectly white. No painfully boring sentences there any more. Just look at that white screen! It seems to glow. How enchanting it is! It must be so or you wouldn't be staring at it for so long, unblinking.
Must think of something. Now there's an idea! That's all you need to do. Think of something and write it down. It sure sounds like a plan. There must be something rattling around in that head of yours that you could write down. If you think back on the days' events as they unfolded, there may be a chance that one of them could prove worthy of being written down. It may even be entertaining for somebody to read. That would be an achievement, would it not?
Now you recall that odd thing that happened after you got off the bus. You were on your way home after conducting some business in town. You had gotten off the bus and walked up the street, around the corner, and just before you reached the corner of that street you noticed something sticking out from beneath a wooden gate on the side of a house. What was that thing sticking out there? Then you realised why you noticed it! It caught your attention because it was moving! It was a white dog's paw.
Stopping dead in your tracks, you look down at the dog's paw, wondering about it. Then you see a little black puppet thing with small stubby arms, well-chewed by the looks. Putting two and two together in a split second, you realise that the dog behind the wooden gate has inadvertently knocked its little toy beyond its reach. Still looking down at this scene, yet now with the mystery solved, you realise that you must make a decision.
This is a multiple choice question.
Do you:
A) Continue walking home, refusing to help the dog retrieve its little toy; or
B) Give the little toy a small kick back under the wooden gate?

4 comments:

BixBloc said...

I choose "B"...now you can analyze me.

Stratu said...

ok. you are probably NOT a serial killer.

BixBloc said...

OK...thank you, I didn't think I was, but now I have confirmation.

Anonymous said...

Anyone who wouldnt take the time to give a little doggy its toy back is human scum and should be flogged with rods of splintered bamboo.

Greg A