Would you rather be crushed by a snake, eaten by a crocodile or sat on by a rhinoceros? And would you rather have supper in a castle, breakfast in a balloon or tea on the river?
These tricky questions are posed in my favourite book for 3 to 6-year-olds, Would you Rather by John Burningham. In each case, I find one needs to deliberate quite hard to discover which is the least nasty of the three nasty things or the nicest of the three nice ones.
Last week, British Airways came up with its own would-you-rather dilemma. It asked its employees if they would rather work for a month on full pay, work for a month on no pay at all, or take a month off on no pay.