I was at my bus stop, watching
as my friend tried to get one of the passing buses to run over a soda. As she
tried and failed time after time to move that soda to the appropriate point in
the road, several people looked on in amusement, but not one teacher noticed. Eventually,
my friend told me that I should go and try to move the soda a little so that
the next bus would hit it. I thought about it. I didn’t want to move it, in
case I would get in trouble, but I really wanted to see what happened when a
bottle of soda got run over by a bus. I tried to say no anyway, but my friend just
pushed me out into the road and told me to move it quickly. So I did. I went
and moved it. Naturally, although the teachers had miraculously not seen my
friend on any of the more than five occasions she moved that bottle of soda,
they noticed me immediately. Although I tried to explain that I was just an
innocent spectator who had been pushed into the road and told “move the bottle!”
my friend denied it and the teachers didn’t buy it. So, I had to go and get the
soda out of the road, and the teachers all scolded me, “Bad girl, Abby,
accusing your innocent friend just to get out of trouble! Bad girl, Abby,
trying to get a bottle of soda run over by a bus!” My friend thought it was
absolutely hilarious, and knowing her, she probably pointed me out to those
teachers.
I think we have all learned a
valuable lesson in gullibility.
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