I wasn't using a digital tuner to scan the radio dial two days ago, so I'm not sure if I heard a clip of our NPR affiliate or the religious station after it. I did hear, however, someone who sounded like a minister possibly giving a fire-and-brimstone sermon. The only sentence I heard was, "He had to make the most consequential decision of his life!"
I wonder who this tormented soul was and what life-changing decision he had to make. Was it to accept or reject a particular religion? Was he vacillating about donating a kidney to a friend or relative? Or, was he steeling himself up to get out of purchasing a timeshare property?
All three of those scenarios, in my view, warrant the speaker's exclamation point. In fact, the possibilities intrigue me as much as those in the first Context? entry I ever wrote.
