Joshua's Dilemma LbNA #30414

189. JOSHUA'S DILEMMA A CT mystery of the dilemma variety.

Checked 6 Oct 2011

Joshua was a hiker from way back who had tracked and trekked the many trails across the country before he stumbled upon the quaint little hobby of letterboxing, which he enjoyed for several years. Recently, however, he found himself on the horns of a dilemma. Letterboxing, instead of the hiking hobby he had previously enjoyed, had become mostly just a series of endless stamping parties with his new girl friend who hated to walk anywhere! In fact, just the other day she had informed him that if he were ever to take her letterboxing anywhere that involved a walk, he would have to pick her up in a limousine and take her out to a fancy dinner or a swinging dance party at the casino afterwards.

Well, what was poor Joshua to do? He didn't want to loose his brand new flashy girl friend with her colorful, pointy high heel shoes. On the other hand, he did not want to give up his hiking boots, and letterboxing as he had once known it, just to make her happy. He wanted to compromise and take her on a letterbox walk, so he went and picked up the limo, and then was on his way to pick her up. But the more he thought about it, he started to balk ...

So, what do you think he did? Did he A.) just keep on driving down to the river, hop up onto the northwest corner of the old cemetery stone wall, and decide to give up letterboxing to be with his girl friend? (After all, his life was just about over anyway, wasn't it?), B.) pick up his girl friend, deposit her at the north entrance of the casino in a wintery mood, and toss the ring he once meant to give her behind a nearby azalea bush, or C.) remembering the other dilemmas of letterboxers from the past who had also had dilemmas and seem to have left the hobby, did he just turn around the corner, ditch the limo in a lumpy little dirt parking lot by partner trees near a stone wall, and take off walking to Alaska?