You think you're having a bad day now!

Sometimes, little decisions, made in haste to get you through a tiring day with minimum hassle, can have life altering consequences. Here's a good example. Six years ago, a visitor from Fargo, North Dakota, hunting in Saskatchewan stopped for lunch at a restaurant. What could have been a pleasant meal turned instead into life-and-death struggle for the hunter and a five-year nightmare for the former owners of the restaurant and the waitress who served the hunting party.

What would you do in this situation? Would you take the time to get your facts straight before answering a customer's question, or would you make your best guess and leave it at that? How would you handle the situation if the restaurant is crowded, full of noisy families with screaming babies demanding your attention, and you're tired? Would you really make the effort? Would it occur to you how badly things can go if you make the wrong judgement?