Would you …
- – keep the money if a shop assistant gave you too much change?
- – lie to a friend if you were in a difficult situation?
- – buy cigarettes or alcohol for someone you knew was underage?
- – break the speed limit on a moped if you were in a hurry?
- – be nice to someone you didn’t like so that you could get something?
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Would you be nice to someone you didn’t like so that you could get something?
I think everybody has done this sometime. For example: to you brother or sister to convince them that they let you play with that nice toy, to your parents so that they let you go shopping with friends, your grandmother because you want HER TO give you money to buy sweets, to a friend so that he lends you his notes…
I have convinced a lot of people to help ME but I didn’t do it with ANY bad intention. However the birthday of my best friend WAS LAST MONTH and my mother punishes me because I didn’t clean my bedroom and I failed two important exams and I lied to her about the mark. Finally I convinced my mother and I went to the disco with my friends but I talked with my mother but WE didn’t COME to an agreement. It was very hard and I had to work and help my mother with the house during A week. I studied and I didn’t go out and had to obey my parents for five weeks.
LIE TO A FRIEND IF YOU WERE IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION?
I would lie to a fiend if it was necessary. I DON’T
usually lie, but if the situation was difficult I would tell
a small lie to help my friend, or make her/HIM happy.
-BUY CIGARETTES OR ALCOHOL FOR SOMEONE YOU KNEW WAS UNDERAGE?
I don’t think I would buy cigarettes or alcohol for someone
underage, for example my brother. I wouldn’t buy cigarettes
because they are bad. If I bought alcohol I would buy low
alcohol or beer 0%.
BREAK THE SPEED LIMIT ON A MOPED IF YOU WERE IN A HURRY?
I would break the speed limit on my moped if I was in a
hurry. For example if I was late for school or somebody,
a friend or my family, was in hospital.
WOULD YOU KEEP THE MONEY IF A SHOP ASSISTANT
GAVE YOU TOO MUCH CHANGE?
Hi Rosa!
I’ve choSEN this topic because I remember we discussed it one day in
class. We discussed ON how honest we are,and this question is related to that.
So, if someday I was in this situation I DON’T know what to do. Because, imagine you
are in a supermarket and once you’ve paid,you go to your car and drive off the car park and
when you arrive home, you realise that the shop assistant has gave you too much change. What
do you have to do? will you GO BACK TO supermarket and give her the money BACK? Or, will
you forget it and stay at home?
well, in my case I wouldn’t go to the supermarket, for the simple thing that I have
many things to do and I can lose my time going every five minutESs TO the supermarket to return
the wrong change every time it’s wrong.
In spite of this, if I DIDN’T return the money,I would feel really guilty and moreover, the
shop assistant could have many problems if her personnel manager discoverED that THERE WASN’T
enough money in the cash.
For that reason, I will return the wrong change
to the shop assistant.
WOULD YOU keep the money if a shop assistant gave you too much change?
I think that at the moment I would keep the money and I would think that I was a lucky girl,but later I would realise that the poor shop assistant had to pay it.So,I would give him or her the money back.
WOULD YOU buy cigarettes or alcohol for someone you knew was underage?
I would never buy cigarretes or alcohol for someone I knew HE OR SHE was underage,because I don’t smoke or drink alcohol and I don’t like when young people do so.I would feel very bad if I did it.
WOULD I Keep the money if a shop assistant gave ME too much change?
I don’t really know what I would do in this situation.
Actually, I think that the most probably thing I could do in this situation
is not check the change.For example, I remember one day when I was at
the disco, and I paIED for a little bottle of water, and it cost me six
euros.SIX EUROS!I gAVE the WAITER 10 euros, HE GAVE ME only four
euros CANCHE . But he MADE A MISTAKE and give me 15 euros! I know I could
return him the money that wasn’t mine, but I was very angry with their
prices and I decided to shut up and coninue dancing on the dance floor.
Despite of that situation, I think that I would probably return the money
to a shop assistant IF I WERE IN AN other situation.
WOULD YOU BUY CIGARETTES OR ALCOHOL TO SOMEBODY YOU KNEW WAS UNDERAGE?
Of course NOT.I have cousins younger than me, and some of them smoke,
obviously they sometimes ask me to buy their cigarettes but I NEVER buy
them.The reason is very easy, because I love them and I never will do
anything that I know could damage their health.
That would be in case that somebody of my family askED me to buy cigarettes.
but I don’t know if a boy or a girl that I don’t know askED me FOR IT…
I sopose that I will act IN THE SAME WAY but I’m not sure. It depends ON the
situation, and the age of the boy that wantED the ciggaretTes.
WOULD YOU BUY CIGARRETTES OR ALCOHOL FOR SOMEONE YOU KNEW WAS UNDEAGE?
It’s difficult to answer the question because I have never had to choose, but If I haD to do something, I WOULDN’T buy cigarrettes for someone that was undeRage.
Because I think that they are too young to begin smoking and drinking or alcohol.
If someone askED me,I WOULD tell him that I WOULDN’T like TO SEE A teenager smoking too early for my fault.
Would you keep the money if a shop assistant gave you too much change?
Well, thinkING about a thing like this now it’s difficult. Firstly I have to say that I never CHECK MY change, if he or she giveS more or less money I won’t know IT because I NEVER think that the shop assistant can MAKE A MISTAKE, I put the money in my pocket and I NEVER CHECK IT TO SEE if it’s RIGHT.
But if some day a shop assistant gave me more money I WOULD TELL HIM OR HER ESPACIALLY if it WAS a known shop or the shop assistant WAS friendly to me, if the shop assistant WAS unfriendly and COULD GET nervous I WOULDN’T say ANYthing. I know that IT is the OWNER OF THE SHOP who lOSES the money but the boss haS to know the people who IS working in his shop and if they can work being KIND TO THE CUSTOMERS OR NOT.
Would you keep the money if a shop assistant gave you too much change?
Nowadays the SHOP assistants USUALLY GIVE the CORRECT change , maybe because if they are wrong they might have problems with their boss or also because our economy is not good as few years ago (it means that we can’t waste money) . However, in case an assistant gAVE me a little bit more change I think I WOULD accept IT . Unless the change is much more superior than the real one I won’t say ANYthing.
Moreover the attitude of the assistants MAY influence a lot in this situation, for example, if they are rude and ungrateful the buyers will take the money and leave the establishment.
All in all I don’t know clearly the way to solve this dilemma I think that when you’re in the situation you know what to do.
WOULD YOU… KEEP THE MONEY IF A SHOP ASSISTANT GAVE YOU TOO MUCH CHANGE?
Well, I think that it is an interesting moral topic with lots of different opinions. Many people say that they would keep the money because with the IVA they are already paying much for things they buy. I don’t disagree at all with them, but I think that if the person who serves you is not the boss of the business, he won’t have the money he haS to have at the end of the day and his boss will probably think that he has stolen it; so he will be punished. That’s why I wouldn’t keep the money if a shop assistant gave me too much change, because I think it is unfair and we all make mistakes.
To sum up, I think it’s better to be sympathetic with shop assistants and give them back the money if they give us too much change.
Hi everybody!
I’ve choosen the dilemma: WOULD YOU BUY CIGARRETTES OR ALCOHOL FOR SOMEONE
YOU KNEW WAS UNDERAGE?
-First of all, there are a lot of boys and girls underage that sometimes
smoke or drink alcohol. What’s more, someone has to buy it to them
because they can’t buy it.
If somebody who’s underage told me to buy cigarrettes or alcohol I
would tell him/her NOT!
I neither smoke and drink and I never buy it because it can damage
my health. If I BOUGHT them alcohol or cigarrettes, I WOULD BE damaging their
health and this is the last thing I want. i
For thESE reasons, I would never buy ANY OF THOSE to ANYone underage.
I hope you agree with me.
Hi people!!
I’ve choosen another dilemma: WOULD YOU BREAK THE SPEED LIMIT ON A MOPED
IF YOU WERE IN A HURRY?
YES, I would, and I’ve broken it.
I know that breakING the speed limit is bad because you can have an accident
and injure yourself or crash into another motorbike or into a car and
injure other people. Also, you can die.
But I’ve done it. One day, in april, while I was having lunch,
my mother ASKED me if I WASN’T goING to school. Suddenly, I remembered that
thAT afternoon I had to go to school, but there was a problem, I was 5
late. I stopped having lunch and I went to school by moped. I was in a
hurry, and I had to break the speed limit.
I always try to not to break it but sometimes IT is IMPOSSIBLE.
WOULD YOU LIE TO A FRIEND IF YOU WERE IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION?
Obviously, I won’t do it. I’ll never lie to a friend! It’s the worst thing you can do. If you do it, your friend will never trust you again. And if it’s actually your friend I think you have to be really honest with him. If not, you aren’t a good friend and, what’s more, you don’t deserve his friendship.
Would you keep the money if a shop assistant gave you too much change?
First of all, I would not realize because I am so absent-minded and I would put the money into my pocket.WITHOUT CHECKING IT-
However, if I realized that this WAS happenING, obviously, I WOULD return the money THE shop assistant because I am honest and I prevented???? that the shop assistant was working out affected of the situation.
Moreover, I would be happy for my act and the shop assistant would be grateful.
But, I also think that everything dependS on the situation because not all shop assistant DESERVE IT.
Would tou keep the money if a shop assistant gave you too much change?
I’ve choosen this dilemma and I think that there are many diferent
opinions. Firstly, I never CHECK the change the shop assistant gives
me, although people tell me I should ALWAYS CHECK MY change! But, if
someday in my house I see that this person GAVE me more money, I WOULDN’T
return this money. Well, it depends on the sum of money. On the other
hand, if the shop assistant gives me less money and I am in the shop AT
thAT moment, maybe I WOULD ASK FOR it.
Actually, I wouldn’t know WHat to do because I have neveR been in a
similar situation.
Although I don’t have a moped, I’ve chose this dilemma because I have already discussed it with some people.
First of all, we need to know that although there are lots of controls, radar machines and things that remember us to drive under the limit, many people often don’t pay attention to them.
I think that, if someday I have a moped or a car, I’ll always drive under the speed limit, not just for my own safety, but for the other’s.
But, in case I were in a hurry, I would drive a little bit faster, but always carefully.
Sometimes drivING faster is not drivING in a dangerous way.
WOULD YOU BUY CIGARRETTES OR ALCOHOL FOR SOMEONE YOU KNEW WAS UNDEAGE?
No. Why? BecAuse I’m underage and during my short live I had to pass shame???? buying alcohol, and I think that if you are man enough to drink alcohol, you are man enough to have the courage to buy it. For that reason, I never ask nobody to buy alcohol for me.
Would you buy cigarettes or alcohol for someone you knew was underage?
This is an actual moving moral. I wouldn’t buy cigarettes or alcohol for ANYbody. If they want to drink it’s not my problem. I think in one way or another they will get it. Internet is a good solution. Many Web sites ARE attracting young people to buy these substances, then they will consume it. It’s a fast way.
Parents don’t control what their children ARE doing. If they don’t know what they are doing, I think they never won’t know if their children ask someone to buy cigarettes or alcohol.
It’s difficult to talk about this. Do what you think and simply be happy.
WOULD YOU BREAK THE SPEED LIMIT ON A MOPED
IF YOU WERE IN A HURRY?
That’s an interesting question and its answer is very difficult.
I WOULD break the speed limit if someone of my family or some friend had an accident and he or she needed my help. Obviously, I would go quickly until the place of the accident. IT would not matter if I EXCEED 70KM AN HOUR in a place where the maximum allowed speed WAS LESS but if I would keep an eye on the street SO NOT OT have an accident.
However, I never break the speed limit but if I was in a hurry FOR SOMETIHG REALLY important I WOULD break it.
WOULD YOU BUY CIGARETTES OR ALCOHOL FOR SOMEONE YOU KNEW WAS UNDERAGE?
First of all, I am underage too but I am a 17 years old and if my mother needs cigarettes I buy THEM FOR for her. And here there is the question. Why shop assistants let buy cigarettes if you are underage? The situation isn’t controlled YET.
However, if I had to buy cigarettes FOR PEOPLE underage people, I would not it ALTHOUG He or she WOULD ask help TO other people.
Would you lie to a friend if you were in a difficult situation?
It’s a complicated dilemma. But I wouldn’t lie to a friend, because in my opinion if I am in a difficult situation I will tell to my friend WHAT WAS happenING , and I’m sure that my friend gets on me.
I think that lYING to a friend means that there isn’t confidence between us. And this is an important thing to have FOR a good friendship.
I would never be nice to someone I don’t like just to get something I want. I’ve never done that and I’ll never do it.
There are a lot of people who act that way, but they just move for self-interest and they are lying to other people, their “victims”.
I find it kind of ridiculous and terrible, sometimes they even play with the emotions of their “victims”, and then they don’t care about anything else.
Probably they don’t have true friends and they manage to get things from other people, without caring about how and why.
WOULD YOU BUY CIGARRETTES OR ALCOHOL FOR SOMEONE YOU KNEW WAS UNDERAGE?
Firstly, I hate cigarrettes and alcohol and I would never buy them for me or other people, especially if they were underage.
I think that if you are eighteen or older you can do what you want with your body.
On the other hand, if you are underage, you should follow the advice given by doctors and parents.
WOULD YOU KEEP THE MONEY IF A SHOP ASSISTANT GAVE YOU TOO MUCH CHANGE?
I don’t usually check the change after buying something. However, if I did that and noticed the assistant gave me to much change, I would think about telling him/her or not. If he/she gave me a lot of extra money, I would tell him/her the truth. But, if she/he gave me a little extra change, for example one euro, I would keep it.
LIE TO A FRIEND IF YOU WERE IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION?
I would never lie to a friend because things and relationship would go wrong. I think it’s better to be sincere from the first moment. Also a small lie could become the worst, and every time it would create a major conflict.
If you start a relationship telling THE truth, it’s possible that your friend would get angry depending on the situation or what you had told him, but he will know the truth. But, if you keep saYing a lie, it would become worse, making that lie bigger, and your friend would finish finding it out, and getting very angry with you, and it’s the worst thing.
Well, I would never be insincere to achieve something even I would be in the worst tight corner.
Firstly, because I can’t be nice TO a person who I DON’T LIKE, my face looks really tense and the person realises that it’s not Patry who is talking with him or her.
On the other hand, I think that it isn’t honest being somebody you aren’t. It’s the worst thing you can do IS TO lose your identity. You are what you’re, you DON’T HAVE TO to try to be different, you are good, you are yourself.
In conclusion, I’ll never be different to get something, it’s a miserable thing, you have to fight to get whatever you want not asking to another person to get it!
-Would you break the speed limit on a moped if you were in a hurry?
I think that I WOULD never break the speed limit on a moped because I don’t like mopeds and because I am afraid of THEM.
If I have a moped in the future, I don’t think I WILL, I WILL never break the speed limit, I don’t like mopeds but I love SPEED, but if there is a limit is TO respect this.
Christian
I choose the dilemma: Would you break the speed limit on a moped if you were in a hurry?
At this age it’s difficult to follow the rules. If there are road signs advising you to
drive under eighty and you are in a hurry you probably break that rule. Because
you are more worried about being late than about the speed limit.
In my personal experience if I were in this situation I think I would break that rule.
Many people break road rules every day!
-Would you buy cigarettes or alcohol for someone you knew was underage?
I HAVE never bought cigarettes or alcohol for an underage and I will never do IT, because I am a boy who loves his live and I think that I must RESPECT OTHER PEOPLE’S LIVES.
Cigarettes and alcohol are bad for our bodies and we must avoid drugs, because cigarettes and alcohol are drugs and PEOPLE SHOULDN’T TAKE DRUGS.
– lie to a friend if you were in a difficult situation?
It depends on the situation. If possible, I think you MUSTN’T/DON’T HAVE TO lie to a friend, but if it’s necessary, you can.
However, if a friend lies to you, you’ll be angry so if you don’t like they lie to you, I think you shouldn’t lie to them.
Anna
WOULD YOU BUY CIGARRETTES OR ALCOHOL FOR SOMEONE YOU KNEW WAS UNDEAGE?
Yes, why don´t do it?
I believe IN WHAT people say, is IT necessary to help the others, OR noT?
Then to do something for the people who request it TO YOU. I do not believe that this is bad, another thing is to buy illegal products, like drugs or another type of illegal things. But the alcohol is legal, just as tobacco, I do not believe that IT was bad to do it . Before buying it to him/her,I would explain to him/her that those things do not have of being routine for as young boy/girl as him/her.?????????
Would you keep the money if to shop assistant gave you too much change?
If an employee GAVE more change to me of the account, I would said it, for the simple reason that when you sometimes go away and you forget your change the shop assistant always warns you BY TELLING “sorry, YOU ARE LEAVING YOUR change”. I thinK that this is the reason WHY I would not take that money, the difference of money that you can leave winning is enough, however for the employee is a hardship because soon it must guess that it has happened with that money and I would avoid the bad moment to her.??????????
BUY CIGARRETTES OR ALCHOHOL FOR SOMEONE YOU KNEW WAS UNDERAGE?
No, of course. In my opinion, this is a stupid accion, because if we buy alcohol or cigarrettes to an underage, we contribute to damage his or her health, and,if we buy this thing to an underage, we brEAK the rules of the government, and we are exposeD to a fine.
But, this is an interessesting question, because a lot of people BREAK thESE rules every day, but the shops that sell this products, don’t do ANYthing, I thinK because wirh this, the shops earn more money, but this is inmoral.
LIE TO A FRIEND IF YOU WERE IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION?
I think, LYING to a friend is horrible, because if he or she is my friend, it’s my friend for all, no for SOME SPECIFIC situations.
If a friend lieD to me or to someone who consIderED his or her friend, I WOULDN’T THINK that this person WAS a real friend.
Friendship IS fantastic, because FRIENDS can talk EACHother SINCERELY DESPITE OF NOT BEING FROM the SAME family, a friend is a person whoM you CAN trust in. and if a friend lieS to you, IT is NOT a real friend.
It’s true that if I don’t like to explain all my personals experiences or things to a friend, I say “small lies” to HIM OR HER, but NOT when it is an important thing.
Would you keep the money if a shop assistant gave you too much change?
I think that It depends ON the situation, First OF ALL I WOULDN’T PROBABLY realize, and if I NOTICE that the shop assistant HAS MADE A MISTAKE. I WOULD keep the money IF IT WASN’T MUCH, for example 1€ , but if the quantity WAS highER I think that I WOULD sAY SOMETHING, because I WOULD fEEL BAD.
WOULD YOU KEEP THE MONEY IF A SHOP ASSISTANT GAVE YOU TOO MUCH CHANGE
i HAVE BEEN GIVEN TOO MUCH CHANGE SEVERAL TIMES AND I HAVEN’T SAID ANYTHING and I HAVE kept the money. Most
people only complain when they give them less change. If they give them more, they don’t complain.
I only complained once because the shop assistant was returning to me less change . I remember she had to give me 12€ back and she just gave me 6€ in coins. The woman said to me that she thought that she had given to me six coins of 2€. But, in fact, she gave me six coins of 1€. Them, she gave me my money back.
But, wheN I worked in a supermarket in Roses as a cashier in the summer, many people came back to tell me I had given them too much change.
It depends on person. Sometimes they give it back, sometimes not.
I choose the dilema: Would you buy cigarretts or alcohol for someone you knew was underage?
It is a difficult dilema. To give you a good answer I had to be in the situation. It depends on different points.
-First, If he or she was a good friend of mine I would probably bUY it.
-Second, If he or she WAS ABOUT the age I would help him or her to buy it.
Finally, If it was a person that I DIDN’T KNOW much and that person WAS UNDERAGE, I wouldn’t buy it.
WOULD YOU LIE TO A FRIEND IF YOU WERE IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION?
Once, I Lied to a friend…
A Saturday evening a friend of mine called me and asked me if I wanted to go out. The problem was that I already had a date, so I said to him that I couldn’t because I had to take care of my little sister. He was angry at me and hung the phone.
At 10 p.m. I went for dinner with a friend to a chinese restaurant. When we finished we went to a pub called Sperpentik. There I met the friend I HAD lied to before! How embarassing!
When he saw me he came straight to me. I didn’t knew what to say. He asked me what I was doing there and I explained it to him. At the beginning he was angry at me, but them he told me that we could have gone all three together to have dinner.
Finally, we had a drink together and went home.
[b]Would you keep the money if a shop assistant gave you too much change?[/b]
I would like to tell you A story; my Granddad told me it one day, a few years ago…
“One day, when I was young, my mother ASKED me to go to a bakery and buy some bread. I paid with a coin of two hundred pesetas and when the shop assistant gave me the change, I took it, without checking IT, and I left. When I was returning at home, I took the money of my pocket and I saw that I haD two coins of five hundred pesetas. At that time, honey, a thousand of pesetas was a lot of money; and I decided to go back to the shop. When I arrived, I said to the shop assistant: “Excuse me, I think there is and error with the change…”, then she answered very angry: “Sorry, but I can’t accept any complain after you have left the shop”. “Well, ok, you have already lost a thousand of pesetas” I said angrier and I left. And, since that day, I never check the change”.
Well, I have learnt FROM my Granddad: I never check the change.
Would you break the speed limit on a moped if you were in a hurry?
Well, I know (like Gemma has said) that there are lots of machines to catch the people who break the speet limit, and I know that it’s very dangerous breakING it… But I have to confess that I sometimes break the speed limit on my moped, because I am usually in hurry (because I usually get late).
Would you be nice to someone you didn’t like so that you could get something?
I think that if I NEED something VERY MUCH, yes, I would be nice to a person I dIDN’T like, not being too much friendly because I don’t want to be hypocritAL, but I’d act just kind and pleasant.
would you buy cigarrettes or alcohol for someone you knew was underage?
I’m sure I would never buy cirarrettes or alcohol for someone who was
underage, I haven’t have this necessity, the necessity of helping
someone to do something illegal, and that could damage his or her health
I prefer to say NO, and it doesn’t matter if he or she gETS angry,
I will feel better if I do things well.
WOULD YOU KEEP THE MONEY IF A SHOP ASSISTANT
GAVE YOU TOO MUCH CHANGE?
WHO
Well… I think not returnING the money in that situation is not a crime. If I were in that situation I think I would probably keep the money if it’s not too much money. Perhaps it is something bad or immoral, but in my opinion is shop assistants fault because they ARE RHE ONES must give us the correct change.
BREAK THE SPEED LIMIT ON A MOPED IF YOU WERE IN A HURRY?
I think that people who drive must respect the laws because it is very dangerous go too fast for you as for another people who ARE On the road. But also I admit that if you have an emergency it’s possible to do an exception, but you have to go with a lot of care. I’m sure of that if I WERE some situation like thAT I WOULD exceed the limits without thinkING any more, but in thESE EXTREME circumstances I’m sure that I would break the law.
would you keep money if a shop assistant give you too much change?
Well… that is the situation which i can talk about easily because
it HAS happened to me more than ONCE.
I remember ONCE when I was shopping with my mother and we bought
a pair of trOUSERS and two t-shirts,THEYcostED a hundred euros,
and we payED with a note of two hundread euros, the shop assistant returned
us one hundread and fifty euros .
My mother, wanted to say it to the shop assistant but I TOLD her NOT TO BECAUSE
it WAS shop assistant’s fault.
And finally, I’m going to try to answer the last question;
WOULD YOU BE NICE TO SOMEONE YOU DIDN’T LIKE SO THAT YOU GET SOMETHING?
The better answer for that question is: OF COURSE NOT! I’M NOT A FALSE
PERSON! I WILL NEVER DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT!
But when a person is in a difficult situation and he or she needs to get
something, HE tries to get it and it doesn’t matter how.He will do all the
posible things and I sUpose that BEING nice to get something,
because EVERYBODY has SOMETIME OR AN OTHER done IT. Pherhaps sounds a quite selfish
but that’s the truTH.
– break the speed limit on a moped if you were in a hurry?
I wouldn’t break the speed limit on a moped if I was hurry because, first I could have an accident, second the police could fine me. If i had to hurry I would NEVER break the speed limit because I would put my live in danger.
– keep the money if a shop assistant gave you too much change?
No, because I don’t like keepING money if IT is NOt mine.
I would feel bad, because the boss from the shop could fire the shop assistant.