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The Missing Item

Do you go back and pay?

The Missing Item

At the supermarket, you notice the cashier has missed the £40 bottle beneath your bag. Your receipt is already in your hand. Going back will make you late to collect your niece.

Do you go back and pay?

Then ask

  • Would you return if it were £4?
  • Would your answer change at a family-run shop?
  • If you keep walking, who have you decided should pay?

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 Pond
  2. The Deathbed Promise
  3. The Windfall
  4. The Payslip
  5. The Ring
  6. The Novel
  7. Who Stays
  8. The Will