selecting C

SIR PIERRE

A Sad Story of a Student

By Izzy Ess of Messiness

Selecting C, Pierre went on to question 22, selecting C, again.  To answer question 23, he did again select the C, and C, again, for questions, 24 to 84.  He handed in his paper fully ten minutes before the time was up.  Professor Abercrombie looked quickly at his template for the answers and was pleased that Sir Pierre scored 85, where heretofore, his highest score was 29, no more.  Pierre was pleasantly surprised at his high mark and thought that guessing C for everything was tantamount to cheating, yet he’d scored the highest mark in his whole class of genii, who’d scored no more than 51, on average, for the difficult examination on the subject of, “Transfiguration in the Ancient Grecian High Society.”  Pierre was lauded loudly by Professor Abercrombie during afternoon instructions for the reading to be done by the next day, regarding “Sexual Dysfunction in Egyptian History.”  Pierre ignored ‘most everything that the Professor said.  A pop quiz on the Monday that was next, gave Sir Pierre the opportunity to try his trick again.  He duly marked the C for everything and got the highest mark, again, at 92, while all the other genii scored only less than 49 and some scored only 22.  Next week, the topic was, “Cats in Old Babylonia.”  Pierre performed his act, again, and scored a 9, the lowest ever mark recorded in the history of Abercrombie’s long career.  The answers where all choices of an A, for almost every question. All Cs gave Sir Pierre only 2 of an 100 questions.  The genii around him scored an average of a 66, with a range of 56 to 69.  Pierre surrendered and relinquished his huge bursary.  He transferred to the smaller College of the Eden Garden, where he barely made a passing grade in “Basket Weaving for Americans.”

THE END

© izzy sommers, md

Welland, Canada

Septembre Dix-Sept^ieme, 2013, ACE