You drop a bagel, what would you do?
Maybe a weird question but this just happened to me.
I was at the grocery store getting a dozen bagels, none for myself, and one slipped out of my hand and bounced a few times on the floor. It was barely down for two seconds before it was back in my hand, but then I was stuck. What do I do with it now?
Do I just put it in the bag with the rest of “my” bagels? Put it back in the bagel rack/basket?
I wound up throwing it away.
But then I got to the cashier, and I was stuck again. I’m not paying with my money, but I basically took 13 of the store’s bagels.
So do I tell him I got 13 bagels? or just the 12?
I wound up just paying for the 12 I had in the bag.
It’s not like the bagel was expensive or anything. I just had no idea what to do.
What would you do? If you dropped the bagel? (It’s fine if you don’t answer totally serious : )
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The store would consider the dropped bagel as operating loss. They would not expect you to pay for it.
In your situation, I would have put it in a separate bag and taken it with me to the checkout, paid for it and then thrown it away.
If it were for myself, and unless it landed in mud or water or something equally obviously distasteful, I’d simply brush it off and include it with my own purchase for my own use. I agree with @iamthemob on this. Since it was a purchase ‘for others’, then I would not include it, and would throw it away (on the store’s nickel) as part of their loss. Look at it this way: they saved on packaging by providing the bagels in bulk for you to sort and package, and in this case they lost that bet. They still come out ahead in the long run, and they should not expect you to pay for an accident such as this.
I’d put it in my own bag. I might even wrap it in an extra piece of paper so I could eat it on the way to wherever I was going.
You did more than the right thing.
I think the only wrong answer to that one is putting it back on the rack. Either way, don’t loose sleep over it.
To be honest, I would most likely just leave it on the floor for the clean-up crew to deal with. I wouldn’t want to buy it but I certainly wouldn’t put it back on the shelf.
Ah – the Bagel Dilemma! I remember reading about it in my Hellenic philosophy class. What was the answer?
Isn’t that the Bagellian Dialectic?
You know that author of the great novel, “A Bagel Speaks?”
He was bread for it.
Oh hail! Take the thing home and toast it and eat it!
It is so refreshing to find another honest person, we are so rare. Put it in a separate bag and explain what happened. The clerk will be happy to discard it for you, without charge.
Depends. If the floor seemed seriously gross I would tell a staff member. Otherwise, pick it up and blow on ti and carry on.
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