Monday, February 09, 2004

Music: Green Day - Redundant
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Hello, Moral Crossroads. How are you?

Remember that toilet thing I mentioned in the last entry as the reason why Mr. Cuervos and I are in a fight? It's a full blown jihad now.

Look. I know that it's easy to have a little too much and when that happens, getting sick really is the best thing for it. The fact that this person missed the bowl on part is, sure, mostly their fault (or toilets *are* a big oddly shaped), but when I found them in there they felt so bad that I didn't have the heart to get mad. I just gave them some saltines and sent them back upstairs to get some sleep. I knew Buck (our custodian) would be pissed when he went to clean the bathrooms on Monday, but there was nothing for it. It was 3 a.m and I wanted to sleep.

Fast forward to this morning. I am a total coffee drone, so I was washing my thermos out in the kitchen sink as usual when I run in to Buck. We say hello and he asks me if I knew anything about the mess in the bathroom.

Thank God I'm a pretty good actress when I want to be. I said no I didn't, I must have been really asleep when it happened (Buck knows I'm the one closest to the bathroom) but the mess had been there for awhile. He sighed and told me that he was going to have to write this up and send in for charges, and those charges meant that the *first floor* would be picking up the tab for the damage.

Now here's my problem. The person responsible was not from the first floor. None of us had anything to do with it, except for me who helped the person responsible feel better. I really don't want to have to pay for something I didn't do *and* prevented from getting worse. Technically I should just turn the person in, right?

I can't do that. (1) They're a friend. (2) I promised I wouldn't say anything. But the real clincher is that (3) the charge would be university record. With that on record as an alcohol related incident, the University could use it's new overly-strict alcohol policy to suspend or even expel this person. That's right. For getting sick the person could be expelled. I can't have that on my conscience.

All I can think to do now is maybe try to get Buck to charge the whole house instead. He can't pin it on just the first floor. I know it seems shitty, but having 20-something people, among whom is the guilty party, get charged less than a dollar seems more fair to me than having 4 innocent people be charged the whole cost.

My biggest worry is that Buck knows I know who it is. He's, like, ex-military and I'm not so sure how well I'd hold up under interrogation.

This really sucks. And so does the fact that I have to go to class now :P

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