Clareified

I thought last week’s project went well.

Today’s endeavor is a puzzle of sorts that I got from Karol a few years ago. I found it in my draft folder and figured I’d dust it off and publish it in these times of blogging famine. Comment your answers in the comment section.

A man (M) and a lady (L) who are very much in love and devoted to one another, are separated by a river with no way of getting across to the other side. On L’s side of the river, there is a boatman (B) who is able to take her over to the other side of the river but refuses to do so unless she pays him $20, twice his normal fare. L has no money. Another man (S) then tells L that he will giver her $20 if she sleeps with him. L agrees to do so and on receiving the $20, pays B who takes her over to the other side of the river. She is reunited with M and they are very happy together. However, a friend of M (F) finds out what L did with S and immediately tells M. On learning the news, M finds L and ends things with her, stating that he wants nothing more to do with her. Your task is to rank these five people, M, L, B, S, and F, from best person to worst person.
UPDATE:

WHAT IT ALL MEANS:
The story features five characters each representing certain traits. How you ranked their goodness from 1 to 5 reflects how much importance you place on these things in your life. For instance, my ranking B, F, M, L, S. Says that I place most emphasis on Business (or money), then Friendship, then Morality, then Love and lastly Sex. Which, if I say so myself, is pretty much exactly me. Likely due to my being an only child raised Catholic and living in the ghetto.

First, the rules:

The Rules are: Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.
Now, between you and me AND ARI, not only has she done this meme before, but she’s already forced me to do it before, though the last time it was only five things, don’t really see how making a meme longer is an improvement.
But I can’t think of anything better to write about, though some very funny stuff did happen in Maryland and I should stop being so lazy and write about it…especially since the overwhelming theme of the trip was “come on, Dawn, stop being such a lazy ass and use the talents God gave you to do something you love and live a happier life.” Which, as an aside, may sound like a super positive encouraging thing to say to someone, but really, the next person to tell me that should be prepared to duck.
Ah, but I digress, ok…weird things about me…eight weird things? That don’t repeat any of the five weird things I wrote about before? Let’s see:

1. All my clocks are set at least 30 minutes fast.

2. I do my best deep thinking at the poker table. Unfortunately, I play my worst poker when doing my best deep thinking. Thank God for low stakes home games.

3. I love routines, traditions, customs. To the point where anything done once becomes something I assume will be done again, in the very same way, at the same time, into perpetuity. And if it doesn’t, I’m disappointed. You know, like I assume Ari will tap me with this meme every year until she dies.

4. I will always buy whatever costs the most because I assume it’s the best. And so it was that Dawn became the only person to pay for yahoo’s premium email service. And Live at the Bike. Groan.

5. I can and have listened to one song on repeat all day long. For weeks at a time.

6. I’m an unrepentent snoop. I can’t help it. I crave information.

7. I am obsessed with death and dead people and how they died and how their families are dealing with it and whether they’ll be remembered and whether it was painful or whether they saw it coming or how they would have done things differently, if… It’s a sickness.

8. I use the word dude for everything.

I tap Weenie and Gertie because I think their answers will be funny.

Well, due to a devasting lack of content that won’t make you cry, I’ve decided to do that for which I have been tagged. Of course, since I’ve had a blog for almost four years now, there is a reason you don’t know these things about me. So, in order to sorta keep it that way, I’m doing a variation on the meme called six truths and one lie.

1. I auditioned for the Spike Lee movie Crooklyn.

2. I’ve been arrested on weapons charges.

3. I got married in Virginia, the summer I turned 20, because I didn’t believe in pre-marital anything.

4. I won’t get divorced because I don’t believe in that either.

5. I had nine different on-campus jobs in college. I never quit any of them, I simply didn’t go back and figured they’d take the hint.

6. All the only children in my family are girls.

7. I will never ever confirm the lie in this post.