Deciding the decision to not decide.

For one reason or another, Friday was spent unable to decide things. I didn't even really know what I wanted to eat for lunch (I ended up with 1/2 bowl of soup and a vegan cookie.) This made me think about a book I read a few years ago, "The Dice Man". In this book, the main character decides to turn his life over to the roll of a die. The book is pretty crazy, in that he does some things that wouldn't fly in these days, and were probably pretty out there for the 70s (when it was written). Anyway, after a little discussion with some people who sit near me, I might try to make a "Dice Woman" thing and do a road-trip solely based on the dice. I need to figure out some guidlines, but think it might be interesting. In order to prepare myself for handing over all decisions to randomness, I'm going to spend the next week letting Heather decide for me. We made up some rules about how this is going to work:

Social Experiment 1: A prelude to Dice Woman.

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1. Decisions made by the ‘decider’ can not harm the ‘decidee’.
a. This includes physical, mental, or emotional harm.
2. Decisions can range from the minor and mundane (eat out for lunch, or bring lunch?) to the more exotic (school follow-up, etc.)
a.The decidee can, however, make some of the minor decisions without involving the decider. (leaving the office, etc. etc.)
b. Decisions will be ‘mostly’ restricted to those during the work day.
3. Situations can not be constructed solely for the ‘decision’ opportunity.
a. Decisions must naturally arise (within the 8-530 time range) to be considered.
4. There is an open-ended “opt-out” for both parties.
a. If the decidee determines that the decisions stifle civil liberties or cause undue mental or emotional anguish, or just ‘don’t work’ then she is able to withdraw herself from ‘not deciding.’
b. If the decider finds that her own decision-making skills and mental taxation withhold her from making decisions for the decidee then she can defer all decisions back to the decidee.
c. In either case, the week-long deciding ceases and does not come back into effect if either party is ‘wishy-washy’ or ‘vague’.
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I'll let you know what happens.