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January 23, 2006 |
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The 10 Million Dollar Quiz
FOUND by Markus Kolic
in Fergus, Ontario
I found this in a desk at my high school. There's something poignant about it; it almost made me cry.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
that was the best :O
Call me an old cynic.... but I think this was the answer to a school exercise with a title like "if I had a million dollars". How nice would everyone think he was with
this !!!
Whoever was checking it does not love their parents.
I want to know what the back of it says.
It sounds to me like an exercise guidance counsellors (used to) have students do to make career choices. The idea is this: if you didn't need the money (e.g. you won ten million dollars) what would you do to occupy your time? The problem is most kids just say they would lie on beach. I said I'd be Indiana Jones.
part of the back says "Mission Not Impossible" :)
Another two parts of the back say, "Scenario I." and "You should do something you like for..." Maybe it really is a career-determining test.
I took this and reversed it, then darkened everything to make it easier to read the backside. Other phrases are:
(at the bottom)"Personal management skills" and what could be "re-revolu"-something.
(between the second and third lines) "Scared", with what could be 'scared' before it and 'nightly' after it.
(under "where I help people") the word 'walk'.
The top line has what looks like "steve", and is dated April 05.
That's all I could make out...
It makes me sad that whoever filled this out doesn't love his/her parents.
Salesman or Fireman. You can't get more opposite than that! Firemen help people, whereas salesmen don't help anyone and don't make anyone happy or satisfied! I think they hate their parents too, though
m in Chicago - I'm sorry you think salespeople are so worthless.
Ha, I think its some punishment by the parents.
"you know what I would do if I had a million dollars?
Two chicks at the same time."
- "you'ld do two chicks at the same time?"
"Yep."
hahaha, awesome...
How does this list say that this person does not love his or her parents? Just because it isn't checked? Maybe someone else did the checking.
I would love to find something like this from one of my children.
No one else thinks it's weird that this is called a "quiz?" The checkmarks make it seem like a teacher or counselor is grading it or assessing it in some way, which just strikes me as wrong. Are there incorrect answers? I hope it was just checked for completion and the "I love my parents" line was simply absent mindedly missed...
Someone bound for a "helpful" career in outbound telemarketing.
This is what I make of the "quiz" part. It's not judging the student of what they think, but is a quiz for an advanced ESL learner. The English is well written and there are no real "right" answers for the imagined questions. ESL I say!
I wonder what's on the other side?
Ah, yes. The salesman, our cultures most underrated civil servant...
To me this seemed like a writing assignment, like teacher gave a topic (What would you do with $10 million?) and the students had to respond with a certain number of statements to make a complete paragraph or something. So this student said he/she would give all the money to their parents. I've done a lot of grading in my time, and sometimes I've used checks to indicate they made an accurate point (so it's a positive, not a negative, that the check marks are there). I think it's nice.
This young person may be a foster child or simply may not have parents for one reason or another.
Call me a shallow, heartless, cynic but why would anyone cry at finding this?
I agree. This person should be ashamed that they didn't check I love my parent. And furthermore. Lets be honest. If ANY of us won 10 mill. none of us would be getting a career of any kind. I do volunteering but not a career.
"I love my parents" IS checked off!!! That's only the first part of the sentence. No need to check off each line, because I'm only checking each complete sentence once.
But that begs the question WHY anything is checked off. Is this a rough sort of outline for a homework assignment, and the author checked off each statement as it was worked into the final paragraph? They do sort of run in a logical sequence.
since it says quiz, i think that these are answers to a seperate paper that had questions on them. He probably answered "i love my parents" to a question and just got whatever the question was incorrect. His teacher probably marked everything.