Saturday, May 31, 2008

At least you're not stoned...

I have this friend from school, her name is Bob (Barbara). She had a very unique experience recently and I felt it was worth sharing with my viewers, few that there are. Bob is a straight A's student who is in the Girl Scouts, in Governors school and can do no wrong. However the other day her life came crashing down, in a slightly humorous way of course. Two years ago Bob went to India with her Girl Scout troop, and while there she bought a colorfully woven bag with a swastika woven on the front. The swastika originated in India and means peace and happiness, the Nazi's just stole the symbol to represent their organization, and unfortunately many people associate the Swastika with the brutality of the Nazi's and with antisemitism. But Bob, being educated knew what the symbol really meant and loved the bag, and she promptly began using the bag as a backpack. Last week while walking through the hallways of Massaponax High School, Bob was grabbed by an administrator and told that she was in big trouble and was dragged by her arm to the office. Finally upon reaching the school's office ob was informed why her arm had been pulled from its socket in the rush to get the office. Apparently the administrator had caught a glimpse of Bob's swastika bag, and found it highly offensive and so obviously against the code of conduct. Bob promptly explained what the symbol really meant and that she wasn't going to come to school someday with a gun and shoot all of the minorities, which the administrators actually told her they feared. However while the principle "deliberated" Bob was sent to sit out in the office with all of the other delinquets that exist within Massaponax. Bob sat down in the only available seat and promptly realized that the boy next to her reaked of pot. The boy quickly turned towards her with blood shot eyes and asked why she was in trouble. Bob quickly, not wanting to keep the conversation going with the scary high kid, showed him her bag. He laughed quickly, than looked straight at her and said,"At least you're not stoned, hahahah."
Bob was quickly returned to class after her ordeal and told that she might be given in-school-suspension for her offending bag, even though it wasn't really offensive to any well-educated person, which apparently Massaponax High School lacks. I came to find out later that on top of all of this Bob recieved a ticket while picking up her sister because she only had her parking lights on. And all of this happened while her parents were out of town. This story will forever make me proud that at least i'm not stoned, I do have that much going for me.

3 comments:

Molly said...

At least we're not stoned! We found a really cool poster here. Did you know there was a Prohibition in the Soviet Union, too? The poster is from back then, and all it says is "Het!" and it shows a guy turning down a drink. We got a magnet of the poster to send to you guys and your goofy collection of magnets.

Emile Gibson said...

Hey, so I have a blog too. We should be blog buddies!

mightymuffin said...

Just say no...