Another day, another dollar...

So hypothetically speaking of course...

This one is short and sweet, but your responses don't need to be.

Every kid dreamt at some point of what they wanted to be when they grew up. You have your typical firemen and ballerina's. Lets say that in fact now that you are all grown up, and reading the blogosphere, you HAVE that job you once dreamed of doing.

For the sake of this not going totally out of control, no Superman's or Catwomen.

Do you think you would be happy working at your first dream job? Are you currently working your dream job? Do you think you'll ever get to work that job? Has your dream job changed from child to adult? If so, what is it now? This, and so much more.... in the comment section.

Posted by JCH

RIP Dolly (the sheep)

So, hypothetically speaking, of course...

Let's just set the record straight: everyone knows that ever since they cloned that sheep, the government has been cloning humans and putting them in strange situations to see what happens.  This one may not be so hypothetical after all....

So you're seeing this person.  You've been with them several years and you're hoping to be engaged VERY soon.  Things are going great, but an accident happens and they pass away.  You're obviously devastated.

At the wake, people are clearly upset and many are drinking heavily to ease the pain.  You're in a discussion with their best friend from college and they feel they need to come clean with you on a secret about your former significant other.  Something that they've NEVER told a soul, but because you were so close, they felt you needed to know.

In college, your significant other participated in a government cloning program.  The government takes people at different times in their lives and clones them.  They move the clone to another part of the country to live a similar life and then monitor the progress of both to see how each turn out (is a copy as good as the original?).  There is a clone of your deceased significant other living across the country.

This is shocking news to you, as they had never mentioned it before.  It's a top secret government project.  You decide its best to leave your memory of your partner alone and not to disrupt any grieving by trying to meet the clone.

A year passes and you're on a business trip on the other side of the country when you completely randomly run into the clone at a coffee shop.  It is a spitting image of your significant other and you can't believe it.  You CANNOT resist the urge to say something, so you sit down with them and tell them about it.  The clone is nearly EXACLTY like the original in every way.  Same looks, same sense of humor, same job, etc.  Naturally, you hit it off.  You have to get to a meeting and they have to leave for work, but you exchange numbers.

What do you do next?  You just got over your loss.  This clone lives on the other side of the country, but is EXACTLY like the person you've lost.  Do you pursue or back-off?

My comments post on Friday in the comments section.