Testing, Testing... The Singles Forum REAL Personality Test!

[kinda]

2. Wait until your friend gets back, because you don't want to ruin their vacation.

Option 2, but there is no option 5. Let me add that option for a more realistic approach.


5. Refuse to look after the goldfish. What are friends for again?

Here is option 6:

6. Tell your friend, you love sushi.

Option 7....

7. Inform them you have no experience with owning pets and had trouble keeping goldfish alive as a kid.

 

[tourist]

Just for amusement purposes replace the goldfish with a piranha.

 

[tourist]

Just for amusement purposes replace the goldfish with a piranha.

Just kidding about that piranha thing.

 

[1christian1]

Cats? Is that how you got rid of the fish? Lol...

My daughter "wins" gold fish every year at the state fair. Not one has lived more than a week. I am positive
we won't be asked...

 

[BrotherMike]

I would let them know right away. I imagine they don't have a deep relationship with this fish and the earlier you communicate with them the less stress it would be for me until they get back. Is that selfish? lol

 

[zeroturbulence]

Hey Everyone,

This thread is a bit of an experiment. After spending some time talking with chat friends about the results of various existing personality tests, I was thinking about some of the "Getting to Know You" threads we've had here in Singles the past few months.

I thought it might be interesting to expand upon that and find out a little bit more about each other's personalities. However, instead of answering 500 rounds of ambiguous or questions such as, "I am generally sometimes most definitely a positively positive person," how about if we try seeing how people say they would respond to various situations instead?

I originally had an idea for 3 different situations for people to reply to, but seeing as the Zombie Apocalypse thread turned out more like a Spiderman movie sequel (way too many plots going on at once!), I'm going to try just one story line and see how it goes.

So here's the situation:

* You have been asked to look after your friend's beloved goldfish for a week. During the time this little finned fiend is under your care, it sadly passes on to a bigger pond.

Do you:

1. Let your friend know right away!

2. Wait until your friend gets back, because you don't want to ruin their vacation.

3. Offer to buy your friend a new fish regardless of when you leak the bad news.

4. Remove the evidence, get a new fish, then place it in the bowl and let it happily swim free as if nothing happened, passing off this new fish as your friend's original, letting your friend believe THIS is his treasured aquatic companion.

PLOT TWISTS:

* If choosing answer #4, would you be more or less tempted to try to pass off a new fish as the old one if the fish were all one color and easy to replace, rather than a fish that had unique colors or markings and would be impossible to duplicate?

* What if the fish died... Because you forgot to feed it? Would you confess this to your friend, or pretend you had no idea why the little guy didn't make it?

Feel free to choose any and/or all answers that apply, and tell us WHY you would choose those answers (in other words, what's your reasoning behind your answers?) These answers are not absolute, of course -- just give us your own version of how you would handle such a situation. Answers can be both humorous or serious, as long as they're honest!

And no worries about being analyzed -- it's going to be interesting enough just reading people's answers.

It wouldn't really work to buy a replacement because all the ones at the stores are very young so they'd be smaller than your friend's fish unless it was also very young, in which case your friend will not have grown attached to it yet... unless it was your friend's child's fish that they just got two weeks ago.. then you could just go buy a new one and tell your friend in secret that the real one died.

 

[JustEli]

I concur with Pipp.

 

[Lanolin]

Just ONE fish?

hmm never had that before.
I'm more of a eat your fish kind of person, though I've never eaten goldfish. So I doubt they would even ask me....

I have dog sat before but I am not doing that again (too much work). Cats ok. Fish...I eat.

 

[zeroturbulence]

Hey Everyone,

This thread is a bit of an experiment. After spending some time talking with chat friends about the results of various existing personality tests, I was thinking about some of the "Getting to Know You" threads we've had here in Singles the past few months.

I thought it might be interesting to expand upon that and find out a little bit more about each other's personalities. However, instead of answering 500 rounds of ambiguous or questions such as, "I am generally sometimes most definitely a positively positive person," how about if we try seeing how people say they would respond to various situations instead?

I originally had an idea for 3 different situations for people to reply to, but seeing as the Zombie Apocalypse thread turned out more like a Spiderman movie sequel (way too many plots going on at once!), I'm going to try just one story line and see how it goes.

So here's the situation:

* You have been asked to look after your friend's beloved goldfish for a week. During the time this little finned fiend is under your care, it sadly passes on to a bigger pond.

Do you:

1. Let your friend know right away!

2. Wait until your friend gets back, because you don't want to ruin their vacation.

3. Offer to buy your friend a new fish regardless of when you leak the bad news.

4. Remove the evidence, get a new fish, then place it in the bowl and let it happily swim free as if nothing happened, passing off this new fish as your friend's original, letting your friend believe THIS is his treasured aquatic companion.

PLOT TWISTS:

* If choosing answer #4, would you be more or less tempted to try to pass off a new fish as the old one if the fish were all one color and easy to replace, rather than a fish that had unique colors or markings and would be impossible to duplicate?

* What if the fish died... Because you forgot to feed it? Would you confess this to your friend, or pretend you had no idea why the little guy didn't make it?

Feel free to choose any and/or all answers that apply, and tell us WHY you would choose those answers (in other words, what's your reasoning behind your answers?) These answers are not absolute, of course -- just give us your own version of how you would handle such a situation. Answers can be both humorous or serious, as long as they're honest!

And no worries about being analyzed -- it's going to be interesting enough just reading people's answers.

 

[Dino246]

Cats think goldfish are food. Children think goldfish are food. Harried parents of small children think goldfish are food.

Only the cats are correct.

 

[Tinkerbell725]

I will break it to them gently and help them deal with grief by giving them a good book.

 

[Mii]

The life expectancy of a Goldfish is quite low. It could be something as dumb as it didn't like what you set your thermostat to for all I know.

We did have a Goldfish we got at a church fair event thing (Oct 31) when I was maybe 9ish and somehow it lasted for almost 6 years. You could even tell it was old because it's scales started to change colors toward white eventually.

We also caught a crayfish out of the creek (named catchess) and it also lived around the same amount of time in addition to a couple of minnow-like fish from said creek (which got rather large eventually).


Whenever my dad bought a fancier fish they all jumped out and died and it was only a tiny hole in the top with a lift flap that was always closed that I recall.



Fish sitting is a strange concept. If I did, err...I'd let them know for sure, but up front I'd most likely tell them I'll follow your instructions to a tee, but if it dies what do you want me to do? So much simpler that way.

That's how it goes with pet sitting, I ask what the worst case scenario would be and what to do.

 

[love_comes_softly]

Id definitely be honest and offer to either replace the fish or give them the money to compensate. Naturally I'd apologize a million times.

When it comes to when I tell them...If they ask about it while they are away...Id tell them...but if not I'd wait until they returned .

I completely agree with this! : )

I’d be stressed though and hope that nobody ever asks me to watch their fish, as I’ve never been able to keep one alive. The last fish I had was a gift named Lucky, from the preschool. The day after I received the gift the kids were all excited to ask about Lucky and I lied because for whatever reason, he didn’t live through the night. I couldn’t tell my 3/4 year olds that lucky died. He wasn’t so lucky after all.

 

[Prycejosh1987]

Do you:

1. Let your friend know right away!

2. Wait until your friend gets back, because you don't want to ruin their vacation.

3. Offer to buy your friend a new fish regardless of when you leak the bad news.

4. Remove the evidence, get a new fish, then place it in the bowl and let it happily swim free as if nothing happened, passing off this new fish as your friend's original, letting your friend believe THIS is his treasured aquatic companion.

It depends on how much a care about my friend, and how much they care about me, but most likely i would tell them straight away.