Question of the Day | 06/23/2009 11:00 pm
You are walking in the woods and a UFO lands near you. Nonthreatening aliens offer you a ride. How do you react?

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The only think I would want to know before boarding their craft is
Do you have a bathroom aboard………that’s all I’d be worried about.
Off we go…………..what a trip that would be. I hope my kids don’t worry.
Something similar happens out at my cousin’s ranch a few times a year, except the aliens are from Earth. So let’s rephrase the question:
You are walking in the desert with a pistol in your holster and two pitbulls by your side, and the dogs flush about 100 illegal aliens wearing all-black out of the scrub bushes on your property. The aliens are waiting for the coyote (human smuggler) to show up, pack them tightly into the back of a delivery truck and give them a ride past the border checkpoint. How do you react?
Answer: React the same way as last time it happened, and the time before that, and the time before that - Call Border Patrol again.
Well , being an avid sci-fi reader … I am gonna agree with the character Trisha McMillian , by Douglas Adams … there are times when you just dont go back for your bag , and when an alien offers you a lift , thats one of them. Hopefully , I will be armed with all I need. But it makes me wonder if I should be carrying around a towel now …
No but seriously … I think it would be fitting of me to leave with aliens … I dont think anyone would doubt I did it…
I would probably go if I felt that the beings truly were not a threat. (If I thought there was going to be any sort of "probing" questions, I’d take a pass!)
I think I have a residual Close Encounters of the Third Kind condition. Whenever I feel down, I watch that film. The final scenes never fail to restore a sense of wonder and adventure and the idea that keeping an open mind is the real passage to happiness.
I would call my girlfriend (she reads a lot of Science Fiction books) and ask her what to do (hopefully my cellphone would work in the woods).
If I wouldn’t be able to reach her, I would hitch a ride, I hate being in the woods by myself.

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