Donations vehemently accepted.

Here's something to try if you're feeling rather bored of life.

The next time you're walking around at school or around town and you see some sort of group settled at a table - the school Drama Club, the Red Cross, the Kumquat Society, Future Mold Growers of America, or what have you - and they have these little homemade chocolate chip cookies wrapped in pink plastic wrap next to a sign that says "Donations Welcome"...walk up to them and take one or two of the stacks of cookies and walk off.

Seriously, has anyone ever done this before? I'll be honest. I haven't ever had the cajones to consider doing this. But, I mean, technically, these cookies are free. There's no price for them, and the cost? Oh, only your dignity, reputation, and good name...if the particular group knows who you are. Peanuts.

Most people are wimps like that. "I would feel terrible if I did something like that," you might be saying. Why would you feel terrible? Because those people at the table representing their Snail Appreciation Club would get angry at you? Or the World of Warcraft society would mess you up (they're all bark, you know)? Do you think somebody might stop you, mid-grab? Or follow you around all day? You don't really know what they're going to do, do you? That's because you've never done it before. It's completely illogical for you to feel terrible about it. So do it!

But just once. I'm not an advocate for mean-spirited behavior or anything. It's just something that might be fun to try. Be sure to let me know how you made out; your results, your earnings, your lacerations, your whatever.

But I digress. So yep, people are soft! They look at the sign - Donations Welcome - and their guilty conscience pipes up.

Come on. Just a buck. Or even those two quarters you were going to use to buy a soda. Okay, whatever assorted pennies and dimes are in your pants pocket. What, are they going to ask you for more money than you gave? They won't!

That would be a great thing to see. Some guilty guy throwing a quarter and two dimes into the donations jar and the lady sitting at the other end of table going, "umm...that handful looked a little light. Come on...cough it up! That was like the cost of five chocolate chips. Don't jack us!"

But I do agree that it would be kind of dumb to just walk up to just any group sitting at a table with baked goods and walk off with a handful of stuff.

You probably shouldn't take baked goods from:

1. Tables that have a sign reading DONATIONS ADVISED.
2. Tables that have a stuffed open-mouthed grizzly bear head instead of a donation jar.
3. Any club or organization with the slogan "fat free is the way to be" or mentions the virtues of imitation soy.

And this is a no brainer...do NOT perform this experiment with any organization with members who are blind. This is supposed to be fun, not something to risk going to hell over.

Just some stuff for you to think about.

'Til next time!