EQ Schmeeque

Before you read this post any further, try answering this Question first:

You’re driving a car and you only have space for 1 more person in the car. You have 3 options of passengers to pick up, i.e. a dying old lady, a friend who has previously saved your life and your life partner, whom you will never meet again. Who will you choose to pick up?

So who will it be???

What’s with the Q you ask? Well, I had a random online conversation with my colleague the other day at work and she posed that Q to me.  Though I hate trick questions (ok, maybe it wasn't a trick Q, but it sure felt like one to me), I was grateful for the distraction and I thought it was an interesting enough Q to post here (also hoping to give you some food for thought since I know most of my posts don’t require a lot of brain cell activity....my bad..heh)

Colleague : Moral question for u. U have only one more space in ur car and 3 options of passengeres to pick up : dying old lady, a friend who has previously saved ur life and ur life partner, whom u will never meet again. Who u gonna choose?

Me: Depends. Where am I going? and why is the old lady dying? from old age? or an accident?

Colleague : Some disease. She is in critical need of medical attention. So, what is ur pick?

Me: Critical need of medical attention there and then??

Colleague: Yup. U r picking the old lady?

Me: Like is she having an attack or something tht if u x rush her to the hosp she'll immdiately die? Or is it like, as long as she goes to the hosp for medical help, it shld be ok?

Colleague: No..she will make it! She won't die immediately

Me: Chehhhhh....and why won’t I see my partner again?

Colleague: It's like that...only one chance

Me: Then I choose my partner I guess, since the old lady isn't going to die there and then. U see, if she were in a car accident and she had to be rushed to the hosp emergency then I might have a problem deciding. And what did u pick?

Colleague: Haha...I thought of picking the old lady too but someone had a brilliant out of the box solution. Apparently, this was some EQ test for getting a job.

Me: I would call a taxi or someone else to pick the old lady up since she x dying there and then. Or suggest that someone ride in the car boot or sit on each others lap. Or I’d change cars and drive a bigger car, i.e. a van.

Colleague : Ride in the car boot?? u wana kill the old lady?! Anyways..the out of the box solution is this:  stop the car, get the old lady into ur car, get ur friend to drive her to the hospital, u stay back in the bus stop and wait for the bus with ur life partner!

Me: Ahhhhhhhhh....I see...Well maybe my life partner would have thought of that solution for me at that time...and no, I didn’t mean put the old lady in the boot. I meant put my life partner in the boot...hahahah

Colleague : and ur friend sits on the old lady and kills her?

Me: No....the old lady sits on my friend of course! So I take it I x get the job?

 

So how did you answer the question? Seriously, I'd prolly lose out on a lot of jobs if they start asking Q's like this during the interview. Apparently your EQ determines your job performance, etc. (though I'd like to think that I have a good EQ.....maybe I should take another test to prove this!).

Oh and I just realized that my colleague failed to mention in the beginning about all of us being at a bus stop waiting for a bus! (I was imagining that we were stranded at some god forsaken place and our only form of transportation was the car! ) Had I known we were at a bus stop, that would have changed my answer....no fair! Oh but I do think that my idea of letting my life partner ride in the boot while we drive to the hospital to send the old lady is genius, no? (I'm sure you wouldn't mind right Mi Amor? Now it's just a matter of whether you'll fit into the boot!)