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Shrewd Opportunist

Adrienne Baker
"I don't think your behavior fits into either of these categories. Instead, it was a symptom of the malaise of modern apartment living as was perfectly captured in David Cronenberg's Shivers. The reason you agreed to turn over the culprit is the same reason I answered your poll: simple boredom."

GMP
"While people who suggest you should have overlooked this woman's misuse of the washer have the best of intentions, they overlook the fact that they would not have the right to decide whether the misuse should be excused. That right belongs to the property owner."

Rodney Fink
"Rats go much lower than you."

David Bush
"Take the free nights and throw a huge party sandwiched between two nights with the girlfriend — chicks love hotel rooms, house-sitting joints and other places where they can smoke indoors. Also, invite Joey's wife. When Joey's wife shows, tell her you're sorry for being a rat fink and then hand her a Cadillac margarita. She'll be mad at first but then she'll settle into it once she sees you're willing to share your prize. Besides, you guys can talk about what a load Mrs. Johnson is."

Vanessa
"Three free nights will change a person."

Jeff Bender
"Joey is a stupid old fart and you have three free nights. What's wrong with that?"

Aaron Egleston
"You made a deal — you didn't have to sign it with your own blood."

David Thacher
"You're an opportunist, but I don't know how shrewd. Have you busted your toilet lately? Don't expect speedy service from Joey's crowd anymore."

Philip J. Ferguson
"If ya got no guts, yeel get no glory. In any transaction someone wins, someone loses."

Steven Cummins
"All entrepreneurs must tread on a few toes in the pursuit of greatness."

Bob Conrad
"I'd say you are even better than an opportunist. You are One Who Becomes Involved in Intrigue. I envy you. All I ever do is climb onto the rooftops of university architecture."

Mikey
"You were at the right place at the right time, as my grandmother used to say."

Mike Horan
"Every theft contributes to the higher prices we all have to pay."

Lennart Forsberg
"What Joey did was stealing. Who would call you a rat fink for helping catch a car thief?"

Wendie Dunn
"Bless your black little heart. What a sweet child to do such a thing for your mommy and daddy."

M. Martin
"You have an obligation to society to circumvent wrongdoing. That you were were able to carry out that obligation and profit is entirely to your credit."

Craig Howell
"You'd have never caught me."

Katherine
"You were doing your civic duty. I expect you'll be announcing your presidential candidacy soon."

M.B.
"You agreed to do someone else's dirty work for material gain, which makes you worse than the sort of tattletale who works from a fierce sense of morality, though better than the nyah-nyah, you're-in-trouble tattletale. It bothers me that you won one for the big guy instead of helping the little guy by warning Joey's wife and forgetting about the bribe. You didn't do anything wrong but you didn't do anything great either."

Lloyd
"There is no free wash."

Bill
"Joey's wife would have done the same to you, and probably for a lot less."

Colleen Walsh
"This world would be a nicer place if people were not afraid to help others, as well as knowing when not to get too involved. I hope your stay was nice."

Kevin Reilly
"All this rat fink business is a load of crap. You made the best of a slow night."

Melissa Rosen
"Do any of those suites have a jacuzzi?"

Robert Whitaker
"Honest people should do all they can to foil the dishonest."

DLight
"Honey, that you would even question your pretty little brain over this one makes me shake my head in wonderment. What is this world coming to? A bunch of youngsters with high standards and ethics? Heavens! Never turn your back lightly on free."

Lady Kathy
"As a lawyer I am well aware how much of life is negotiable. You made an above-board deal and kept your side of the bargain. If keeping one's word is tantamount to being a rat, a lot of assumptions that underlie our society are up for reconsideration. Think of what this would do to the Boy Scouts."

Larry Gilbert
"Ease up with the guilty conscience already."

Tom Turcich
"Trying to play policeman and confiscate the key would have been a bad idea as you had no warrant."

Melissa Vazquez
"Let her wash in normal washers like everybody else."

Bruce Giese
"I just call em as I see em."

Jennifer Williams
"If you can profit from someone's stupidity, good for you."

Freak
"If they weren't your friends and you told on them then you're not a rat fink."

Stephanie du Plessis
"You may be a rat fink, but Joey and his wife were scammers. I see nothing wrong with scamming a scammer."

Max the Avenger
"Hey, it's America, man."

J. Cain
"Do unto others. I would expect someone to turn me in if I had taken the key without permission."

Ron Smith
"If you'd refused her reward you'd be a Good Samaritan instead of an opportunist, but that's all semantics."

Brandy Collins
"If I were you I'd tell the lady to shove her three free days."

Rick Bruner
"Sounds to me like she hired you."

Dyslexia Effluvia
"I would have done the same damn thing. Thus, you are an opportunist, mostly because I wouldn't want to call myself a rat fink."

Steve Dube
"If someone gets fired or evicted, then you suck."

Eric Marlow
"Technically speaking, Joey was stealing from his employer. You'd inform an employer if an employee was stealing from the till, wouldn't you?"

Tony Greco
"You were protecting capital investment. That you can be bought for so little should be the subject of further reflection."

Ron Gatlin
"If Joey's wife hadn't been doing something she wasn't supposed to, she wouldn't have had anything to worry about, now would she?"

C. McKenna
"The only thing I see wrong is that you should have asked for the key to big washer yourself instead of three lousy nights."

Eric Hancock
"Screw the leeches. Bamboo under the nails, hot oil and Cat-o-nine-tails across the genitals. Take your three free nights and have a party with a $10 whore sans guilt."

Patrick Springer
"I say tough luck to Joey and his lying wife."

John Galt
"You have no cause for concern over your morals — as long as Mrs. Johnson is telling the truth."


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