Please pass the chopsticks. . .

Our family has a mealtime game that we like to play. It's a simple game in which a person comes up with a hypothetical scenario that has a moral/ethical dilemma and everyone else gets a turn coming up with a good solution. Kind of like WWJD?, just not in bracelet form.

While having dinner at the home of some friends, we thought it would be a fun thing to play our little game. We took turns coming up with various scenarios--a lost child, a burning building, etc.

Our friend offered a final scenario: You find a $20 bill on the floor at a store. What do you do?

Very quickly our oldest child, the one born with a canonized moral compass, jumped in and answered that he would most certainly take the $20 bill directly to the "store man" and tell him that he found this money on the floor and ask him to keep it until the owner comes to claim it. Perfect! Morally sound, good display of problem solving skill. . .all in all, a tight answer.

Now, usually, this is precisely when our middle child--thank God he listens!--basically repeats what his older brother offered mere moments before, just switching some phrases around so that it sounds a little more original and off the cuff. But not this night. Oh, no. No sooner had No. 1 finished his saintly solution when No. 2 excitedly blurted:

"I'd go buy Chinese!"

A little disappointing, but totally worth the added hours of catechises!