Five pre-IB students were on their way out after school, and passed by two things of equal significance:
1. A guy and gal, sprawled out on the tile floor next to the wall, making out
2. A piece of yellow chewed-up gum stuck to the wall above them
A boy who dresses and acts like an eerily accurate representation of my father when he was in high school was very passionately explaining the upcoming election in India to Martensen, who loves every single living being on the planet (minus his father) more than he loves this boy. This boy hates every single living being on the planet (minus his father) more than he hates Martensen. Which is always hilarious to watch, a hateful person loving a loving person who hates them.
Two short and wonderfully odd choir girls, one obsessed with theory of religion who carries a mug everywhere, the other obsessed with marine biology who wears a pin on her backpack that says "Day of SHADY," walked with us as well. Both are equally obsessed with each other. This is also hilarious to watch, because they interact as if birthed from the same womb or buried in the same coffin or somehow simultaneously both at once.
So we passed by objects 1 and 2, as the boy went on about the electoral scandals and Martensen pretended to listen. The girl with the mug pointed a small, enraged finger at the gum on the wall (object #2), and shouted very loudly, "THIS IS WHY SOCIETY IS CRUMBLING!"
The guy and gal on the floor very abruptly sprung apart from their embrace, frightened and shocked at the high-pitched, kind-throated voice of justice that had just awoken them from the euphoria of each other, accusing them of the entire fall of all of society as a whole.
The mug girl, still furious, still pointing at the gum, did not recognize the mistake at all, and neither did the two boys enthralled in Indian parliament. Marine Biology girl and I were the only ones to witness what had happened.
I, laughing to pieces at such outrageously beautiful timing, and realizing the herd was hurrying onward, dragged the angry mug-clutching girl away by her backpack straps. As we left the scene, I shouted to the poor couple that it was the gum, and not they themselves, that was responsible for the crumbling of society, and that they may continue if they so desired.
1. A guy and gal, sprawled out on the tile floor next to the wall, making out
2. A piece of yellow chewed-up gum stuck to the wall above them
A boy who dresses and acts like an eerily accurate representation of my father when he was in high school was very passionately explaining the upcoming election in India to Martensen, who loves every single living being on the planet (minus his father) more than he loves this boy. This boy hates every single living being on the planet (minus his father) more than he hates Martensen. Which is always hilarious to watch, a hateful person loving a loving person who hates them.
Two short and wonderfully odd choir girls, one obsessed with theory of religion who carries a mug everywhere, the other obsessed with marine biology who wears a pin on her backpack that says "Day of SHADY," walked with us as well. Both are equally obsessed with each other. This is also hilarious to watch, because they interact as if birthed from the same womb or buried in the same coffin or somehow simultaneously both at once.
So we passed by objects 1 and 2, as the boy went on about the electoral scandals and Martensen pretended to listen. The girl with the mug pointed a small, enraged finger at the gum on the wall (object #2), and shouted very loudly, "THIS IS WHY SOCIETY IS CRUMBLING!"
The guy and gal on the floor very abruptly sprung apart from their embrace, frightened and shocked at the high-pitched, kind-throated voice of justice that had just awoken them from the euphoria of each other, accusing them of the entire fall of all of society as a whole.
The mug girl, still furious, still pointing at the gum, did not recognize the mistake at all, and neither did the two boys enthralled in Indian parliament. Marine Biology girl and I were the only ones to witness what had happened.
I, laughing to pieces at such outrageously beautiful timing, and realizing the herd was hurrying onward, dragged the angry mug-clutching girl away by her backpack straps. As we left the scene, I shouted to the poor couple that it was the gum, and not they themselves, that was responsible for the crumbling of society, and that they may continue if they so desired.
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