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A new credit card arrives for you, it’s actually delivered by a guy in a tuxedo who comes to your front door. The card has an unlimited credit limit and it works at any store or business. The only catch is that you can not make payments on it… with money. Instead you pay with time. Every $100 you spend is a minute off your life.
Do you find that kind of creepy and never use it or do you think about how much you could spend in all those minutes and go on a wild shopping spree?
You find a lucky penny. Really, it actually is lucky! Now, where do you keep it so you won’t be the next one to lose it and have someone else find that lucky penny? Keep in mind the penny is designed to be lost and there are endless ways to lose a small thing like a lucky penny: in the wash, in a drawer, on the windowsill… etc.
Where will you save it and not forget where it was?
Having the Midas Touch isn’t all you thought it would be. Sure everything you own is now made of solid gold, including your goldfish and the fish bowl. But you can’t touch anything without changing it. Putting on a pair of gloves is not possible, they turn from cloth into solid at the slightest touch of your fingers. Having to use the washroom is a real problem!
How do you ask the nice fairy to take away the Midas Touch, but let you keep the gold you have so far? After all, now that it’s here you might as well spend it. (Too bad about Great Aunt Geraldine).
You’ve got your treasure all locked up but the pirates are coming!
It’s just a tiny island, not much there but sand, water and plants. Where and how do you hide your treasure? You’ve only got a few minutes and that’s just cause all the rum you left out on the beach slowed the pirates down.
Type dirty to me… How many words can you come up with to describe male and female anatomy – the so called naughty bits? Don’t cheat and look up a list of words online. Just see what you have right up there in your own dirty little mind.
When you have a list, decide which of those words you would actually use. Sort them into categories for too explicit or rude, too cutsey and those you might actually use. Next time you write a steamy scene pull out your list of words. You’ll have a few to choose from and can avoid the run of the mill and overused words.
You go down to your laundry room. Carrying another load for the washer and planning to carry up a fresh load from the dryer. Just another ordinary day…
There is a huge puddle of water in the middle of the floor, spreading out to nearly the walls on two sides of the room. Your feet are wet. Plus you have to hunt for the mystery source of all the water. Worst of all, you’re hoping it’s not going to be something really expensive like the hot water tank, a broken washing machine and other things flashing through your mind.
Turns out it is something much simpler than anything you came up with. A fish is living in our laundry sink. The water which should have drained out from the washing machine, into the sink and down the drain has instead just been filling and then overfilling that sink. There is a plug in the bottom and a big silvery fish swimming around in the somewhat dirty, kind of soapy, water.
What kind of fish likes soapy water and why?
You’re competing with other chefs on a cooking show. The challenge is to make a really great buffet and the real challenge is how you will introduce yourself, your food and your personality to the guests, the other chefs and those who are there to judge you. What do you do in keeping with the kind of food you are serving and your own personality to really impress and make that first good impression? What great recipes/ dishes do you cook up and serve for that buffet?
You’re back in time, Moses is building the ark and the leprechauns are doing everything they can think of to get those darned unicorns aboard. Nothing is working. They just keep frolicking around and laughing about anyone silly enough to be afraid of a little rain.
How do you get the unicorns on the ark, saving the species and changing the outcome of that old Irish jig?
It’s a really long walk back through the jungle. The foliage is thick and the air is thicker. Hard to breathe.
Luckily you don’t see many snakes and other such creatures.
What are you out there walking around for?
Someone has downloaded a really gross set of roadkill photos onto the computers at work. No one is sure who did it but a few people are pointing a finger at you for your sick sense of humour. You didn’t! But they want to hang someone out to dry and you’re becoming an easy choice.
Can you find a way to show you didn’t do it?