It's just like life! Except with more rockets!
When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin.It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air......You suddenly know what you are hoping for!
For some reason I have the feeling that everyone was invited to some event (probably all fugitives or something of the like). At this dinner/supper of sorts all the food was poisoned excluding that of the person who poisoned the food/ordered the food to be poisoned. Our thief stole that person's food and ate it instead of his own, perhaps switching his with the non-poisoned food. Thus, when everyone but our thief ate their food they died. -nods-
Superman got it almost exactly.Our peasant thief was actually quite young. He stole some food from the village store and when his parents found out they sent him to bed with no supper.Subsequently, the whole family sat down for their evening repast which had included a variety of freshly picked wild mushrooms. Unfortunately, the meal contained many poisonous ones and, due to this taking place pre-medicine, the whole family died. excepting of course, our little thief.Yer-Up Supe!