Sunday, June 15, 2014

Orange

Remember being in public school, and at the beginning of every year the teachers would do fun little games so they could get to know you a little better (they still do this in high school) and one of the questions were always'What's your favourite colour?' ?
The kid next to you is furiously filling in the questions in a messy scrawl, and you look back at you're your own paper, and you've only filled in your name. The first question just happens to be the colour one. At first you write in orange, then after a minute, you erase it and fill in another colour, and erase that. Then ten minutes later, it's back to orange.
Then you move on to the other questions, each one taking several minutes to answer. When you look around the room, and you are sighing with relief that you aren't the only one who didn't only take ten minutes on the sheet. The teacher sees you and smiles, and you think that she's hoping that you take another ten minutes on it so she can avoid trying to get the class's attention for a few more minutes.
As you get older, the question doesn't get any easier, and every year it starts to get a little more annoying to come up with the answers. By the time you reach high school, you're now just scrawling answers in, trying to make it seem like you are sincere in your answers. But the truth is, they have over used the questions. But throughout the past ten years, orange was always your favourite colour.

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