so...a scruples question for you.
Say, you just got back to the main building after spending your lunch hour walking on the outdoor track, and you're now microwaving your Lean Cuisine in the office cafeteria, alone except for the caterer. It's a large Lean Cuisine, and takes nearly 6 minutes to fully cook. Since you just walked 2 miles and haven't eaten anything since breakfast, you're starving. You also lost your wallet sometime in the last 3 days, and have no cash or credit cards at hand.
Now suppose, just hypothetically, that as you were taking your lunch out of the microwave after the longest 6 minutes of your life, you lost your grip and spilled the entire meal on the cafeteria floor. Since the caterer is around a bend in the wall, there are no witnesses.
Do you just say, "Crap!", throw the meal away, and resign yourself to a hungry afternoon?
Or do you enact the 5-second rule, use napkins to scoop the mess back into the tray, clean up the floor (in other words, "destroy the evidence"), and slink back to your office to eat as much of it as you could salvage?
I think you can guess which one I chose. Hypothetically.
Posted by Joy at September 9, 2005 01:12 PMhmmm....lol, no way i'm eating off the floor at my job, NO WAY, lol....i think i'd starve first :)
Posted by: monica on September 10, 2005 11:15 AM