Lecture Notes: Bad Ideas Story

Introduction

• Speaker talking about a series of bad decisions and events that unfold
• Setting: Train to New York, landslide hits, train stops moving

Urgent Situations and Bad Decisions

• Train Situation: Landslide

  • Engine quits, tracks blocked
  • No buses available, considering an Uber
  • Uber fare: $350, expensive
  • Decide to share Uber with a stranger
  • Concerns about safety and trust
  • Uber driver offers cash deal to drive all the way, suspicious circumstances (gun in trunk)

• Moving to Las Vegas

  • Spontaneous decision to go to Vegas with friend