Pop Quiz
QUESTION: You have a small-but heavy box (twenty pounds, say) and an uncovered paper cup of hot coffee to carry through a parking garage and up a flight of stairs. Along the way you will pass through two heavy combination-locked doors, the first of which opens away from you and the second towards you, and one lighter key-locked door. You are already carrying a laptop bag on one shoulder and a purse on the other. Should you
(A) cradle the box on one arm and carry the coffee with the opposite hand, or
(B) balance the coffee on top of the box so you can carry it with both hands?
ANSWER: You are a moron. A moron in a dry-clean-only shirt.
October 26th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
if the situation presents itself unexpected I would try to hold the box under my left arm against my body (if it first) and hold the cup in my right hand.
However, if I planned it and know the box is that large and heavy, I think my stack-habbit will show up and I like to stack stuff so put the cup on top and hold it with both.
So all in all I think B is a safer and wiser choise.