What Would You Do If...

What Would You Do If ...

By asking homely questions of passersby, and reporting their homely answers, the New York Daily News' Inquiring Photographer, Jimmy Jemail, knocks together a fascinating column. The things that people tell him are usually things that thousands of readers have been thinking but not telling. One day last week he asked: if your house caught fire at night, what would you grab before trying to escape?

Answered a Manhattan cafe hostess: "I'd take my most gorgeous negligee from the closet, don it, go to the window and wait for the firemen. . . . I'd risk a few minutes of my life to be seen as I always want to be seen in public, glamorous."

Said a Bronx waiter: "First I'd grab my false teeth. . . . If there was time, I'd then put on my pants. And if I still had a little time, I'd kick my mother-in-law in the shins so she couldn't escape. No, that's not cruelty; that's justice."

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