Situation Ethics: You Decide

Your neighbor shovels your driveway while you’re at work. He’s retired, owns a snow blower, and insists he loves the fresh air. Though you work, don’t own a snow blower, and hate the cold . . .
Do you return the favor next time it snows, or feign a slipped disk and let him shovel your driveway the rest of the winter?

You’re a sixty-year-old man en route home after a taxing day at the office.
Do you give your seat on the bus to the buff twentysomething woman leaning over your shoulder, or keep your nose in your magazine and pretend you don’t see her?

A rude clerk mistakenly hands you $10 more in change than you have coming.
Do you politely call attention to his mistake and hand back the overage, or pocket the windfall and hope the jerk gets the ax when his boss checks his receipts at the end of the day?

Your co-worker keeps saying “her and I,” “anyways,” and “I could care less.”
Do you correct and probably embarrass her, or let her babble on with her unintended impersonation of Mammy Yokum?