Moral dilemma: Little Jake hit the neighbor's car. Now what?

Perhaps you can help us settle a moral dilemma. (Yes, they asked.)

Here’s the story.

Brand-new driver Jake backed his parents’ car out of their driveway – right into the back of the next-door neighbor’s car, which happened to be parked there.

This was a simple bumper-to-bumper bing. Jake jumped out of the car to inspect the damages and spotted a scratch on his own family’s vehicle. The neighbor’s car had plenty of rust on the bumper, but no visible new marks.

Jake climbed back into the car and drove off to pick up his girlfriend for a Saturday evening movie date.

Discovering the bumper scratch the next morning, Jake’s mom asked the teen what happened and learned the story. 

What should Jake’s mom do?

1. Send Jake over to apologize to the neighbor.

2. Accompany Jake to visit the neighbor and explain what happened.

3. Call on the neighbor herself to discuss the matter.

4. Leave a note in the neighbor’s mailbox, or make Jake do it.

5. Call the cops to file a police report.

6. Notify the insurance company.

7. Take secret photographs of both vehicles, just in case.

8. Ignore the situation, as no visible damage occurred to the neighbor’s car.

9. Put the house on the market, and move.

10. Other: __________________.

(Note: Jake's mom happens to be a single parent. Otherwise, additional options might be listed.)

What would you do, if this were your family’s concern?

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Zoophobia: Fearsome phobias from A to Z

Visit a local zoo, and you will likely find lots of visitors that “Ooh” and “Ah” and “Wow” about the feathery, furry, or scaly residents in each enclosure. Look around until you spot a school field trip or another group of guests, and you may see some folks who are standing back a bit and looking rather uneasy. They may have zoophobia.

Zoophobia is the fear of animals.

It’s not just holding animals in awe. This is abject terror of any or all beasts. Plenty of people are legitimately scared of birds, bugs, crabs, elephants, fish, goats, horses, kangaroos, lions, lizards, monkeys, snakes, turtles, or other creatures. This may be zoophobia.

A person with zoophobia is not likely to enjoy a trip to the animal farm, aquarium, bird sanctuary, circus, nature conservancy, wildlife reserve, or zoo. And they probably won’t cozy up to your pets, either.

They’re not animal-haters. They are simply afraid. And this phobia is very real.

 

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Ynottaphobia: Fearsome phobias from A to Z

Sometimes a fear is not a fear at all. Why not?

Ynottaphobia is the fear of fearlessness, the fright of having no fright. It’s the terror of being terror-free.

OK, it’s really not. Ynottaphobia is not even a real word. At least, I’m pretty sure it’s not. It’s just that I was leery of not having a fear starting with “Y” for the April A to Z Blogging Challenge this month.

So why not Ynottaphobia? 

Hey, it sounds almost credible. Why not have a phobia about having no phobias? Maybe that'd be less scary than being afraid of fear itself (to paraphrase part of a famous quotations generally attributed to 32nd U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt)?

Sometimes ya just gotta … 

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