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The First Drink

Do you challenge them at the table?

The First Drink

Your closest friend quit drinking after losing their marriage. At your birthday dinner, they order a whisky and ask you not to make a scene. Everyone else carries on talking.

Do you challenge them at the table?

Then ask

  • Who would you risk embarrassing to stop them?
  • How many drinks would you wait?
  • Why might you stay silent?

The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.

More at this level

  1. The Better Life, Plugged In
  2. The Voice That Stays
  3. The Promise You'd Take Back
  4. The Teleporter
  5. Seven Seats
  6. Before You Knew Who You'd Be
  7. Name the Other One
  8. The Last Conversation