Grocery Store
You are carrying a watermelon at the grocery store. As you turn the corner a man bumps into you and you drop the watermelon. It explodes and makes a big mess.
Problem: You dropped the watermelon
Solution: Get paper towels, tell an employee
You are babysitting and there are four children. It is 10pm and one of the children won't go to sleep
Problem: One of the children won't go to sleep
Solution: Call the parents, read them a story
You are eating pizza with your friends. The pizza tastes so good. In the middle of when you were taking a bite the power goes out in the store.
Problem: The power went out
Solution: Take your pizza to go, use a flashlight
You have an essay due that you worked all night to prepare. You reach into your backpack and you cannot find it.
Problem: Your essay is due and you can't find it
Solution: Ask your parent to print out another copy and bring it to school or email it to you if they are still at home, speak to the teacher politely and ask if you can bring it in tomorrow
You go to the video game store to buy your favorite video game. You are so excited to go and buy it. When you get there they are all out of stock.
Problem: They do not have anymore of the video game at the store.
Solution: Go to a different store, see if they have it online, wait until they get the video game back in stock
You are on the bus on the way home. You look in your shopping bag and you don't see the milk you bought
Problem: You're missing the milk
Solution: You can go back to the store
You are cooking chicken for dinner. You set a timer on the oven so that you will know when it is done. You come back to the kitchen and you see the oven smoking.
Problem: The oven is smoking
Solution: Turn off the oven, open windows, call 911 if there's a fire
You are eating pancakes. The waitress hands you syrup and you spill it all over your pants.
Problem: You spilled the syrup
Solution: Go to the bathroom to clean yourself off
You really have to go to the bathroom but there is cleaning sign on the door.
Problem: You can't use this bathroom
Solution: Go to a different one, wait for the cleaning to be finished
You are at the park playing baseball with your friends. You see the sky getting darker and it begins to rain.
Problem: It's raining and you're outside
Solution: See if there is a place in the park to stand where you won't get wet, call a parent to pick you up
You are in the grocery store and you see a 3 year old child standing in the aisle alone. She is crying a lot.
Problem: The little girl is alone and upset
Solution: Find an employee to help her find her Mommy
You get home from a long day of school and your brother is using the one TV in the house. He does not want to get up and let you use it.
Problem: Your brother won't let you watch your show
Solution: Watch his show, come back later to watch TV, tell a parent
You are with your whole family at a restaurant to celebrate your graduation. While you are eating the fire alarm goes off.
Problem: The fire alarm goes off in the middle of your meal
Solution: Call 911, leave the store
You come back from lunch and you see your best friend crying.
Problem: Your best friend is crying
Solution: Try to make them feel better, tell the teacher
You get to the grocery store and your realize you forgot the shopping list at home. You have your phone with you but you call and no one answers.
Problem: You forgot the shopping list at home so now you might not remember everything you have to buy.
Solution: Go back home and get the list, try to remember most items, try to call the house again
You are shopping and someone runs into you with their shopping cart. You hurt your ankle.
Problem: You got hurt
Solution: Go ask an employee if they have a first aid kit, keep shopping and try to ignore it
Your alarm goes off at 6:30 but you are so tired that you press snooze. You wake up again and it is 7:25 and your bus comes at 7:30.
Problem: You overslept and are going to be late for the bus
Solution: Get driven to school, hurry up and get ready super fast
The waitress brings you the bill. She charged you for two slices of pizza when you only ordered one
Problem: She charged you too much money
Solution: Ask her politely to change the bill
A student in your class has been absent for three days. He came back to school and does not understand the math lesson.
Problem: He does not understand the math lesson
Solution: Offer to help him, ask the teacher for extra help
You want to make yourself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch. You look in the knife draw and you don't see anymore clean knives.
Problem: There are no more clean knives
Solution: Use a fork, wash a dirty knife
You go to the grocery store to buy ingredients to make a cake for you brother's birthday. The store has all the ingredients besides the sugar.
Problem: The store is out if sugar
Solution: Go to another store, buy a cake
You have been looking forward to going to the mall on Thursday with your mother all week. On Thursday when you get home from school, your mother tells you that you can't go to the mall together because you didn't finish your chores.
Problem: You didn't finish your chores so you can't go to the mall with your mother.
Solution: Quickly do your chores, ask her politely if she can make an exception
You finished eating your meal. You reach into your pocket to pay the bill and realize you $5 but your meal was $10.
Solution: Ask a friend to borrow money, call a parent to drop off $5
Jane walking in the hallway on the way to her locker. As she is walking there someone calls her a not nice name.
Problem: Someone called her a not nice name
Solution: Say that's not nice, tell a teacher privately
You make a bag of microwave popcorn. You take the bag out of the microwave and see that the popcorn is burnt.
Problem: The popcorn is burnt and won't taste good
Solution: Make a new bag of popcorn, eat a different snack