The Open Window # 1
Practical joke
Recently I played a practical joke on Sydney. It started at lunch when she had two cookies. She ate one of the cookies before leaving the room to get a drink of water. As she left the room, she told everyone not to eat the cookie that she left out in the open. But how could I not eat it? Sydney came back into the room to find her cookie eaten by yours truly. Then a week later she had the same type of cookie but took extreme precaution in guarding it carefully, but she couldn’t keep it safe all the time. When she was off guard, I snuck up behind her, reached over her shoulder and snatched the cookie and ate it. In the week following, Mrs. Monts was handing out cookies to the Gr.7’s. Since those children are picky, one of them didn’t want it and casually handed it to Sydney to eat. Before she could even accept the cookie I snatched it out of her hand as I formerly did and ate it. Mwahaha the cookie monster strikes again! Later on the same cookies were distributed throughout the art class near the end of the day. What happened next went in a flash. Wyatt thought he would be cool and take a bite of Sydney’s cookie sitting on the table, then I came up and realized that Sydney, again, left her cookie unprotected. So as I reached down to eat another cookie, she threw the piece of stain glass, which she was currently engrossed in, across the room and it shattered to pieces. No… what actually happened was she dropped it out of shock of another stolen cookie and it broke in two. Although my joke was kind of mean and sent Sydney into a constant state of paranoia and lead her to break her glass in two, it still was not as mean as the joke Vera played on Mr. Nuttel in the story The Open Window by Henry Gilfond. Vera’s joke involved her telling a false story to Mr. Nuttel, who is a unstable and very nervous man, and scaring him away. Vera’s joke definitely worked better than mine since her joke had an actual purpose of scaring him away, whereas my joke just gained me a couple of cookies and unintentionally made Sydney angry. Both of the jokes were similarly bad since they both ended up negatively for both of the people the jokes were played on, although Vera’s was a little more to the extreme.
Practical joke
Recently I played a practical joke on Sydney. It started at lunch when she had two cookies. She ate one of the cookies before leaving the room to get a drink of water. As she left the room, she told everyone not to eat the cookie that she left out in the open. But how could I not eat it? Sydney came back into the room to find her cookie eaten by yours truly. Then a week later she had the same type of cookie but took extreme precaution in guarding it carefully, but she couldn’t keep it safe all the time. When she was off guard, I snuck up behind her, reached over her shoulder and snatched the cookie and ate it. In the week following, Mrs. Monts was handing out cookies to the Gr.7’s. Since those children are picky, one of them didn’t want it and casually handed it to Sydney to eat. Before she could even accept the cookie I snatched it out of her hand as I formerly did and ate it. Mwahaha the cookie monster strikes again! Later on the same cookies were distributed throughout the art class near the end of the day. What happened next went in a flash. Wyatt thought he would be cool and take a bite of Sydney’s cookie sitting on the table, then I came up and realized that Sydney, again, left her cookie unprotected. So as I reached down to eat another cookie, she threw the piece of stain glass, which she was currently engrossed in, across the room and it shattered to pieces. No… what actually happened was she dropped it out of shock of another stolen cookie and it broke in two. Although my joke was kind of mean and sent Sydney into a constant state of paranoia and lead her to break her glass in two, it still was not as mean as the joke Vera played on Mr. Nuttel in the story The Open Window by Henry Gilfond. Vera’s joke involved her telling a false story to Mr. Nuttel, who is a unstable and very nervous man, and scaring him away. Vera’s joke definitely worked better than mine since her joke had an actual purpose of scaring him away, whereas my joke just gained me a couple of cookies and unintentionally made Sydney angry. Both of the jokes were similarly bad since they both ended up negatively for both of the people the jokes were played on, although Vera’s was a little more to the extreme.