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What Would You Do?

Give Them A Bed?

8 votes

Send Them Away?

8 votes

metirish Dec 24 2008 07:50 AM

If tonight there was a knock on the door and when you opened it there was a pregnant teenager with her boyfriend. Would you give them a bed for the night or send them away?

A Boy Named Seo Dec 24 2008 07:54 AM

Can't wait to hear this story.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 24 2008 07:55 AM

I think he's alluding to Mary and Joseph. It's probably a story you have heard before.

metirish Dec 24 2008 07:56 AM

Seo I'm dying over here , yes it's Mary and Joseph.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 24 2008 07:58 AM

I said send them away. I have two kids. No way I'm letting two strangers sleep in the house. Although maybe I'd let them sleep in the backyard with the donkeys and the sheep. Except we don't have any donkeys or sheep.

Nymr83 Dec 24 2008 08:09 AM

]Can't wait to hear this story. ]I think he's alluding to Mary and Joseph. It's probably a story you have heard before. Seo lives in CA where the 9th circuit has declared religion unconstitutional, this story is brand new to him! i'd help them out in some other way if i could, but strangers aren't staying over.

Centerfield Dec 24 2008 08:16 AM

I'd call my doorman and yell at him for letting them up. Then I'd demand he give me back his Christmas tip. Then I'd use that money to buy drugs.

Edgy DC Dec 24 2008 08:28 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Dec 24 2008 08:29 AM

It is widely understood that Joseph and Mary were married at the time they were bouncing around Bethlehem. In fact, Jesse Jackson's exhortations aside, her "betrothal" to Joseph made her his wife, according to Jewish law at the time, even at the time of the Annunciation. But they were not yet living together.* And I would think they were never boyfriend and girlfriend as we understand the terms. I'd get them in out of the cold and try to get them to a hospital. She could pop any moment, for Christ's sake. (I typed that last phrase before realizing how literally true it was.) * "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost." -- Matthew 1:18 (King James Version); <a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/1-18.htm" target="_blank">Other versions</a>.

cooby Dec 24 2008 08:29 AM

I have two kids too (well, three) and oddly enough they are Mary and Josephs' age. Of course I'd take them in.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 24 2008 08:30 AM

]And I would think they were never boyfriend and girlfriend as we understand the terms. You mean they didn't go to the movies on Friday nights and hang out at the mall on Saturday afternoons? I hope he at least let her wear his school ring!

metsguyinmichigan Dec 24 2008 08:31 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Dec 24 2008 08:33 AM

As long as they don't want to stick around until the wise men show up, I'd let them stay. I'd also ask if they were Yankee fans. I don't let Yankee fans sleep in the house.

metirish Dec 24 2008 08:32 AM

] It is widely understood that Joseph and Mary were married at the time they were bouncing around Bethlehem. I understood the opposite to be the view that was widely held.

TransMonk Dec 24 2008 08:33 AM

Haven't you guys seen this movie? I'd be skeptical.

soupcan Dec 24 2008 08:36 AM

The knee-jerk response is to help them out in some way by calling a hospital, shelter or whatever but not letting them stay in my house. Being that it is Christmas Eve though, I think I'd think twice about not giving them a bed. I mean I could be on the cover of People if I play my cards right.

cooby Dec 24 2008 08:36 AM

Yeah, but it would be 2000 years from now

Benjamin Grimm Dec 24 2008 08:37 AM

No, I haven't seen that movie. (The people look nice, though!) But just because a girl is pregnant it doesn't mean the guy she's with isn't dangerous. I'd maybe give them money for a hotel room or connect them with some help agency, but no way do they sleep in my house.

Edgy DC Dec 24 2008 09:06 AM

="metirish"] ] It is widely understood that Joseph and Mary were married at the time they were bouncing around Bethlehem. I understood the opposite to be the view that was widely held. Yeah, them's just igorant folk.

DocTee Dec 24 2008 09:14 AM

Not a chance. Unless the pregnant teenager was my daughter. And then only because it's the Holidays.

Fman99 Dec 24 2008 12:49 PM

I don't have a guest bed. But I'd let them stay in the manger we have. OK, it's actually a tool shed.

Kong76 Dec 24 2008 02:01 PM

I'd step outside and look up to see if there was gigantic star over the house and if not I'd likely send them on their merry way. If not, I'd ask them so many questions before they were even allowed in the door they'd walk away and try one of the neighbors. Pillow comes out of the blouse and the shot gun out of the duffle bag and next thing you know your handing over the jewelry and silverware. They could be organ thieves. I need both my kidneys, thank you. Getting chopped up and stuck in the spare freezer is not my idea of a merry xmas.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 24 2008 02:05 PM

Beat it, kids. Might offer them directions to a hotel or lend them a cellphone or something.

Frayed Knot Dec 24 2008 02:06 PM

="KC":350cqiqi]I'd step outside and look up to see if there was gigantic star over the house and if not I'd likely send them on their merry way.[/quote:350cqiqi] The planet Venus was large and high and bright in the southwestern sky the other day. One look at that and you might have been fooled. MFS62 Dec 24 2008 06:59 PM And, if she was riding on a camel, I'd call the FBI to check them out before I did anything else. Later