Ben Reed |
09-27-2008 02:25 |
Quote:
Originally Posted by nigafool
(Post 13746453)
i would wager that if you quit playing video games
and got a job that forced you to interact with other adults on some level (for instance not at a petting zoo)
life problems such as these would crop up less often
or when they did, you would have better solutions than "call mom and dad" and "ask the internet"
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I would agree with the first two (minus the "petting zoo" comment), and disagree with the second two for separate reasons.
I disagree with the characterization of this occurrence as a "life problem". My physical life is not at stake here. I have nothing to lose besides immaterial (and in many ways, replaceable) dignity from letting this thing run until morning. (I'm not letting it run any longer than that.) This is not a test of my totality as a human being. Nobody is going to come and whisk me away to jail because I didn't unplug a smoke detector, and am therefore an irredeemably pathetic waste of resources. This is a piece of circuitry, encased in plastic, malfunctioning for ostensibly electrical reasons. There's nothing more to it than that.
As for "asking the Internet", I didn't ASK TW for anything. I offered to share this little anecdote as an insipid little slice-of-life piece that we all adore, and to enjoy the meaningless gibberish that ensued. (I wasn't expecting it to go this far, but well, I guess the joke's on me.) I felt in no way paralyzed by this, because I had no intention of acting on any of TW's suggestions to forcibly unplug the thing. I did the battery removal, and on the off chance it would work, the vaccuuming. Anything beyond that, I wasn't going to do, no matter what.
And as for asking my parents -- I love and respect my family, and especially my parents, more than any other human beings on this earth. I trust their judgment implicitly and consciously. If it ever came down to following TW's judgment versus my parents' judgment (a false dillemma in almost every conceivable situation), I would defer to their judgment without a moment's hesitation. The way I see it, any fundamental failings I have, they had nothing to do with. I dropped my own ball, and it's my duty to pick it up again. Nobody can do that but me.
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