Adventures in Keyboarding

In such a stifling class as keyboarding/documenting, one must make every attempt at silliness as possible. Here is an example of my escape from typing tedium. More will come as a feel like posting them.

A rare open-ended question in a typing exercise:

A student sees a designer jacket hanging over the door of a locker. No one seems to be around. The student tries it on; it looks great. He likes it and wants it. He reasons that if the owner can afford an expensive jacket, he can afford another one. So quickly the student puts it in his gym bag and walks away.

The student is absolutely within his rights for taking the jacket. One’s immediate reaction to this is one of disdain, but what is an expensive jacket to a rich owner? Clearly, it was unimportant enough to leave it lying around in a locker room where anyone of loose morals may pick it up. Suppose it didn’t belong to the one who left it there? Suppose it was borrowed, and now some poor guy has to pay for a brand new jacket that he was only borrowing for one reason or another? Well, that’s tough. He should have taken more responsibility with something that did not belong to him. Aside from the responsibility issues of the previous owner, one must also look at the moral vanity of ownership of the jacket. The student-gone-thief has actually done the owner a favor in taking away something so unimportant as a designer jacket. What is the significance of a jacket, anyway? Must one wear expensive clothing to be respected? In the loss of this utterly insignificant symbol of our materialistic culture, perhaps the previous owner learns that designer or name-brand clothing is not important, a valuable moral lesson.