I know I’m not alone in this. We’re all feeling a little needy[6]. Whom can we turn to? Friends and family always have their own agendas; therapists are useless. So, who’s left?
Strangers, of course. They’re everywhere.
“Excuse me,” I said to the woman behind me one morning in the queue at Dunkin’ Donuts[7]. “I’m currently asking strangers to make all my decisions. Would you mind picking out a dozen doughnuts[8] for me?”
“I’ll order two, but then you’re on your own,” she said.
“Never mind.”
Everyone knows the first two doughnuts are the easy ones.
“I’ll do it, but you’ll have to tell me what you like,” a gangly woman who had overheard theprevious exchange said.[9]
“Thanks, but that kind of defeats my purpose,” I responded. “As long as you’re paying,” a thick-armed guy shrugged[10] at me just as it was his turn to order.
He attacked the chore with glee.[11] His choices were a blur of glaze and frosting.[12] He stopped only once, looked back at me and said, “Sprinkles, two sprinkles,” and they fell into the box with the majesty of a fireworks grand finale.[13]
It was a win-win, a successful random act of indecision[14] (RAI). And I was striking a blow for[15] science. “Your experiment will reveal how much pleasure in a dessert[16] comes from it simply being a dessert, rather than a dessert that you would have chosen,” Plous had observed. “In many cases, the difference in benefit between two choices is smaller than we’d guess.”
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