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The Keys

Do you take the keys?

The Keys

A friend has had four drinks and is looking for their car keys. They've done this before and got home fine. If you take the keys you'll embarrass them in front of people, and they'll be cold with you for months. If you say nothing, most likely they get home fine again.

Do you take the keys?

Then ask

  • You've been in this room before. What did you do that night?
  • Whose disapproval were you avoiding, theirs or the room's?
  • What would have to be true for you to call the police on a friend?

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