The editors of SLAB, a literary journal, asked me: “You get a million dollars, but a snail follows you for the rest of your life. If the snail touches you, you die, and lose your million dollars. Would you take the money, why or why not?”
What’s your answer? Here’s mine.
“Yes, I would. A snail moves at .03 mph, according to Google, and a healthy night’s sleep is 8 hours. So, all I have to do is move just a bit more than .24 miles away from the snail each day before going to sleep. With a million dollars I could afford two houses a quarter mile away from each other.”
