Hey Buddy! I have a very cool question for you! Are you ready? Alright, here we go…
Have you and your coolest buddies from school or maybe in your neighborhood have fun when you play naughty trick on other kids? Or have you teased anyone these past days from school probably playmates in your neighborhood? C’mon, you can think if you tried one recently. Let me guess, you’d like to know if I have done naughty things with my CFE’s (oh, by the way, CFE is the short term for Cool Friends Ever), did I read your mind correctly? Tell you what, I have something to share about this but I need you to think of the most naughty thing you’ve ever done a couple of weeks back to anyone you’ve chatted with. Let’s see if there’s something we can both learn from our shared stories.
BUBBLE GANG! Don’t get victimized…
Every day I and my CFE’s namely Ashley, Keanne and Patty were really having fun in school (that’s why we call ourselves CFE because we believe that we’re COOL PRETTY GIRLS, yeah!). FUN is our game and COOL is our name, that’s our friendship tag line. By the way, we love bubble gum so you’ll see the four of us with different colors of bubble gum in our bags. Don’t you think it’s cool? Anyway, these colorful bubble gums have something to do with our story. It’s been our habit to chew bubble gum after every recess. Once these gums have lost its sweet taste, we stick it to other kids’ desks. Poof! Someone will yell and say “YUUCCKK!!! Who placed this chewed gum under my desk?” And we started laughing very loud.
It’s really funny to see their faces twist every time they touched the bubble gum under their chairs or desks!
The STINK GAME…
The most exciting time was after our playtime in school. After we played the games our teachers prepared for us, we get really sweaty! “It’s time to chase our victims! Yeah!!!” Patty yelled. We started running towards our “victims” – our classmates that were relaxing and very tired after our usual school activity. We’d run over to them having our sweaty bodies reeking with odor so it wafted into their midst! It’s really funny even though it sounds disgusting! You’ll see the other kids’ faces twitch because of the effect upon their olfactory nerves!
Well, these are just a few naughty things we’ve done during our breaks and playtime. But there’s one thing that came in that brought a valuable lesson to us CFE’s. Let me share the story with you.
CHALK that TALK…
Before our math class starts, my CFE’s and I did a very naughty thing to one of our classmate named James. He is short, thin and very quiet. We knew he’d not react to whatever naughty thing we did to him, so we did what we thought would be the best laugh. We put chalk dust in and around his desk because it was the last one so he didn’t have a choice but to sit where we’d planned the dirty deed! Almost immediately James started sneezing – “Aah hahh… CHOoo!!” And he continually sneezed 2x… 4x… 6x… and more than 10x. And every time he sneezed, we laughed and laughed unabated.
Later, James’ seat was vacant. And guess what? James was not able to come to any of his classes. When the bell rang to end class, a woman came in, it was James’ mother! Oh no! She was so tearful because James was rushed to hospital due to a severe asthma attack. Gosh! We didn’t know he had asthma. Oh poor James! What have we done to him? We felt really guilty and ashamed.
We visited James and his mother and said how sorry we were for all that we’d done to him. We also promised James, his mother and our teachers that we’d not do it again and not tease our classmates.
We realized that teasing classmates can be hurtful – and to be laughed at is not cool. And so I, together with my CFE’s, gained new friends when they knew that we are no longer misbehaved kids but will be there to help them whenever needed.
Now, it’s your turn kid! Would you like to be mischievous and have fun even if other kids may get hurt? Share your story and maybe we can all learn from this. Do you want to see others get hurt? I believe you don’t.
