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Someone who doesn't smoke knocks over an ashtray. Who do you think should pick it up? Person who smoked or the person who knocked it over?
Someone who doesn't smoke knocks over an ashtray. Who do you think should pick it up? Person who smoked or the person who knocked it over?
If an ashtray is knocked over by someone who doesn't smoke...
Who should clean it up?
The person who smoked all those cigarettes and left a full ashtray on a table inappropriately.
or
The person doesn't smoke but happens to be bump that ashtray that was left full inappropriately placed.
who do you think some clean it up?
The reason I ask is because I am using it as a metaphor for something that happened today.
A friend brought over three slices of cake for herself and another friend.
I did have a bite.
She ate two piece and the second friend ate the third.
Now hours later I wake up in my computer chair and notice white stuff trailing on my shoes as I walk.
Its the whip cream that was all over the cakes.
I told the person online about it and asked her when she comes by in the morning that I would appreciate it if she helped me clean it.
and she got defensive saying I am claiming something that she didn't do and I am coming off hard.
That she was trying to do something polite and I am being mean about something that anyone of use could have done.
For one I was just asking politely to help me cleans it since it was everywhere and I was helping her in the morning by doing something for her.
and two it was most likely her since she had the most cake, sat in the place where most of it was stepped on, and brought it over. Not to mention she is even an admits that she is the biggest klutz I know.
She said "i dont mean this offensivly but i think sometimes u come at ppl the wrong way".
She took a IM conversation WAY to serious.
Since you can't tell sarcasm over the internet.
I thought she would have gotten the sarcasm since she has known me for years and we always jokingly blame things on each other. especially since she is an admitted klutz.
I don't know - what do you think?
If an ashtray is knocked over by someone who doesn't smoke...
Who should clean it up?
The person who smoked all those cigarettes and left a full ashtray on a table inappropriately.
or
The person doesn't smoke but happens to be bump that ashtray that was left full inappropriately placed.
who do you think some clean it up?
The reason I ask is because I am using it as a metaphor for something that happened today.
A friend brought over three slices of cake for herself and another friend.
I did have a bite.
She ate two piece and the second friend ate the third.
Now hours later I wake up in my computer chair and notice white stuff trailing on my shoes as I walk.
Its the whip cream that was all over the cakes.
I told the person online about it and asked her when she comes by in the morning that I would appreciate it if she helped me clean it.
and she got defensive saying I am claiming something that she didn't do and I am coming off hard.
That she was trying to do something polite and I am being mean about something that anyone of use could have done.
For one I was just asking politely to help me cleans it since it was everywhere and I was helping her in the morning by doing something for her.
and two it was most likely her since she had the most cake, sat in the place where most of it was stepped on, and brought it over. Not to mention she is even an admits that she is the biggest klutz I know.
She said "i dont mean this offensivly but i think sometimes u come at ppl the wrong way".
She took a IM conversation WAY to serious.
Since you can't tell sarcasm over the internet.
I thought she would have gotten the sarcasm since she has known me for years and we always jokingly blame things on each other. especially since she is an admitted klutz.
I don't know - what do you think?
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First thing I think... The question is VERY hard to follow.
In regards to the ashtray it's irrelevant if you smoke or don't smoke if you knock something over you clean it up.
I don't think it's a good analogy for your situation.
In your situation yes, if she made the mess she should clean it up. It doesn't work for your analogy because I'm amusing you meant I didn't eat cake/ I don't smoke. However in your analogy the person who didn't smoke is the one that made the mess. She made the mess not you, she should clean it. As a friend though, cleaning up a little mess on your floor isn't a big deal. Is it really something to fight over?
In regards to the ashtray it's irrelevant if you smoke or don't smoke if you knock something over you clean it up.
I don't think it's a good analogy for your situation.
In your situation yes, if she made the mess she should clean it up. It doesn't work for your analogy because I'm amusing you meant I didn't eat cake/ I don't smoke. However in your analogy the person who didn't smoke is the one that made the mess. She made the mess not you, she should clean it. As a friend though, cleaning up a little mess on your floor isn't a big deal. Is it really something to fight over?
It was unfair to choose no best answer
I may be biased as I was the answer-er, but I felt his question was answered completely and even followed up on.
I may be biased as I was the answer-er, but I felt his question was answered completely and even followed up on.
You make the mess - you clean it.
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The analogy associates with the cake being left in a place for the person to make then mess.
the mess didn't come form the cream that fell on the floor.
It came from me stepping in it then dragging it all over the place before i realized.
I made the mess because she dropped the cream on the floor then I smeared it by accident from walking all over the place.
The cigarette analogy coincides with something another friend of mine side.
he was smoking a bunch and left an ash tray of cigarettes on a stool in the middle of the floor.
I went to clean it up but he stopped me and said no no don't i smoked it and left it there so I should clean it up.
Because I don't smoke and let people smoke in my room.
So does his thoughts on the mess he contributed too, work with the mess that she contributed too?
I don't smoke and I don't eat cake.
both wouldn't have happened if they didn't do it in my room.
So should I clean it or make them handle there own habits?
That is why I chose no best answer.
We weren't fighting over the fact of cleaning it up.
It was the idea of who should.
Not our relationship.
Two complete strangers enter a house
One person spills a drink.
the other person drags the spill all over the floor.
Who cleans it..
You talked about the argument and not the idea that both caused it and both should clean it.