Curtis Johnson was the cool kid in school—the one other kids followed. His smug grin tipped off alert parents who somehow knew that bad things would happen to kids who hung around Curtis.
He was always extremely polite around the neighborhood parents, but his act didn’t fool them. “If Curtis jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge,” parents asked their kids, “would you jump too?”
When Curtis did jump from the Golden Gate, parents questioned themselves.“Did our question about jumping off the bridge cause this?”
“Our hypothetical question wasn’t responsible,” one father said. But my shove was, he thought, satisfied.
Prompt: Under the influence
