Mixed Results
My friend instant messaged me this:
“There are bed sheets in your backyard drying in the sun, it suddenly starts raining, the doorbell rings, your baby child is starts crying, and the phone is ringing. Which one do you take care of first? There is nobody else at home that can help you.”
I started putting that in Formspring boxes … then I realized that “is starts crying” doesn’t make sense. I revised the question for another handful of folks. (This is all extremely, almost insurmountably important!) Anyway, here are some results to our situation at hand. I’ll put the linked usernames after each answer; I don’t want to assume that gender or age have to do with the answers.
“I have a child?! Who What Where When How?!
Um.. Well mulititasking of course :) Grab the baby, answer the phone, say hold on one moment then walk to the door answer that, tell THEM one moment, hand them the baby walk to the phone, end that conversation, hang up the phone go back to the person take the baby end THAT conversation then put the clothes in a clothes dryer.. hello ppl 21st century!” - angelibabii52
“We’ll. The bed sheets can just stay out there until it stops raining. And they’ll just dry again. Or I can just wash them again later. Fuck sheets. The person at the door can suck it for two seconds, and so can the person on the phone. If it’s important, they’ll call me again.” - xEternally
“i would take care of my child first. first priority. then the person at the door, - the sheets could dry in the tumble dryer and the person calling me could call back later.” - dizzieeprincess
“i look for the poptarts and have a damn snack right there” - tonyd2121
“The baby.” - boddahfly
“okay, id take down the sheets and wrap the crying baby in them, grab the phone & answer the door all in a matter of minutes. why? because im devon fuckin keenan.” - dkeenan
“wtf” - ashleyshimansky
“This is a retarded question, but first of all I wouldn’t have bedsheets in my backyard? And I’d take care of the baby I guess I don’t really know…” - allierusso
“my baby obviously. than i’d answer the door. cause whoever’s on the phone can call back and the sheets can be washed again.” - minacoogs
“Obviously I would take care of my child first..” - alltimelorraine
“ummm.. depends why the babys crying. like if its crying cuz it wants something, then ill go get the sheets first, then take the baby with me, and go answer the doorbell.. but if the babys crying cuz its hurt, obv the baby before anything.
bro wat kinda q is this? wth” - ballhogz23
“Baby, doorbell, then the sheets.
Bed sheets can always dry again. The person at the door can wait a few seconds. But baby comes first.” - hayyrae
“the doorbell to see if that person can help me” - zak412
“Grab my baby, make sure they’re alright, grab the phone as I’m checking the door, & then the sheets, because I can always wash/dry them a second time! (:” - faaaaith
“ahhh that kind of multitasking is NOT fun.
Get the baby,
sheets,
doorbell,
and then the phone.” - aanastasia
“The Baby.” - DorkasaurusRexx
