Hey, Mr. Feeny.
Something I can do for you, Mr. Matthews?
En, yeah. Er, actually, I want to talk to you about summer school.
What about it?
You know the test I’ve been taking where, you know, suddenly it looked like I was doing so much better and-It was too good to be true?
Was it?
OK, OK. I feel better. Thanks.
Chair.
I cheated, Mr. Feeny. I had the answers of the test written on my hand.
And you only managed an A-?
I sneezed off a couple of the answers.
Alright. Who gave you the answers?
Oh, er, why would you have to know that?
Because two people are involved in this and if I punish two instead of one, I get a bonus at the end of the week.
A guy in your Class last year. He sold me the answers.
Why did you do this, Mr. Matthews?
I don’t know. I really wanted to go to Europe this summer and I guess I saw my whole trip slipping away.
That’s superficial, Mr. Matthews. Perhaps it’s something a little deeper?
It’s no deeper with me, Mr. Feeny. I am not a good student. Just an average guy who can get by on a nice smile. I’m never gonna get an A, never gonna make the honor roll. That’s who I am. Why don’t you just accept it? I have.
The only thing that limits you, Mr. Matthews, is your laziness. I mean you are just looking for an excuse to never get the grades that I know you are capable of getting.
I’m not capable. And they are just grades.
Just grades. Oh, well. Fine. It’s just Europe. And there are just girls. And it’s just a beach unless you happen to know that on that beach in June of 1944 one hundred and fifty thousand troops landed and began the liberation of Europe, so that 50 years later those girls could run around on that beach in freedom.
1944, that was Q. I put L.
Am I interrupting?
Oh, Miss Heart, please come in.
In a way, this involves you.
It does?
Yes, Mr. Matthews just dropped by to confess that he has been cheating on his tests.
He has?
Yes. And since you’ve been tutoring him, I assumed…
Did he say I gave him the answers?
As a matter of fact, Mr. Matthews claimed that….
I can’t believe you, Eric. I just tried to you help you. How could you do this to me?
I didn’t.