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The Cash Your Brother Wants Back

Do you give him the money?

The Cash Your Brother Wants Back

Your brother gave you his savings to hold six months ago because he did not trust himself with it. He has been sober since. Tonight he turns up and asks for it back, calm, reasonable, saying he is fine now and it is his money. You think he will spend it in a fortnight. You have no legal right to keep it.

Do you give him the money?

Then ask

  • What does he say to you six months later in each version?
  • Who else in the family do you call first, and why them?
  • Have you ever been the one asking? What did they do?

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

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