It’s not easy to make up a story, it’s a chore to make up the bed in the guestroom, and it takes patience and forgiveness to make up after a fight, but sometimes the hardest thing to make up is your mind. Get ready to be decisive, because in this next scenario we’re going to ask you to do just that.
You’re seated in a quiet diner. You flip open the menu and are pondering your selection when the waitress arrives and asks if you’re ready to order. Without thinking, you order a sandwich and a cup of coffee. But after she leaves, it comes to you— you’re in the mood for hot chocolate, not coffee! What do you do next?
1. Keep looking through the menu and thinking about how good some hot cocoa would taste.
2. Look around to see if the waitress is going to come back.
3. Get up and find the waitress so you can change your order.
4. Give up and just wait for the coffee.
Answer Key
I don’t like coffee, so I would never...first place. If I did order it, though,
back.” *reads answer key* 8I