A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

A scenario: A person, we’ll call her “Ruth”, is boarding a jet plane for some locale. Ruth is not old, but she does suffer from arthritis in a number of her joints, so whenever Ruth travels by air, she makes sure to purchase an aisle seat, which provides her with the greatest flexibility and ease of getting up and stretching during the flight, should the need arise.

Her fellow passengers board, including a husband who is sitting in the middle seat of Ruth’s section and his wife, who is sitting in the aisle seat directly across from Ruth. The wife asks Ruth to switch places with the husband, with the husband taking the aisle seat and Ruth taking the middle seat, so the couple can ‘sit together’. Ruth, citing her arthritis and the fact that she specifically paid for the aisle seat for specific reasons, refuses.

Was Ruth rude to refuse?

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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

This question came up over on the FSM boards, and I actually found it interesting, so I’ll post it here.

You buy a CD. Some time later, it doesn’t matter how long, you rip the CD to your computer’s hard drive for your own personal use, either to burn a new copy to use in the car or to put on your MP3 player or to listen using your computer speakers or whatever. Some time after that, for whatever reason, you decide to sell the original CD.

Should you then delete the ripped music files from your computer?

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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

After a conversation on Facebook this morning about how cool US Route 20 is (US 20 runs from Boston, MA to Newport, OR…and right past Casa Jaquandor…and through the part of Iowa where my college is), here’s the question: what’s your favorite road and what’s so great about it?

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