Don't Cheat on Me

大家好！Hello everyone!
In 8th grade, I had this awesome language arts teacher whom we will refer to as Mr.Wood. Moments before our first test in his class, he asks us "Why do men and women get upset when their significant other cheats? " Some responses included "because it hurts their feelings" and "because it makes them feel ugly". I said "People get upset when spouses cheat because it violates an agreed bond of monogamy and trust" (I was a mature 8th grader). He says "Exactly! So guys when you take this test, please don't cheat on me." I'll never forget that.

Today I took the SATs for the second time and there was a girl sitting next to me. During the test, I would catch her sneaking peeks at my paper. In an effort to deter her, I kept sliding my paper under my test book. She gets the message and stops...for a whole 5 minutes before I see her giving herself whiplash trying to look back at my paper. I think to myself 

This is a college entrance exam, why would she try to copy off of a stranger? Maybe she thinks I'm pretty and keeps getting distracted by my face...or maybe there's something on my face...wait, what am I reading again?

And the cycle continued through the first 3 sections of the test. I was trying to be patient and kind and forgiving because this stranger is clearly cheating on me, cheating off me, and doing it poorly at that; however, the last straw was when we were in the middle of testing for section 4 and I see the girl working on section 3 trying to adjust her answers to match my answers and giving herself extra time. That was the moment when I officially broke up with this cheating stranger; that was the moment when I forgot about my test; that was the moment when I looked her dead in the eye to give her one more chance to stop cheating and she looked right back as she erased and rewrote answers from previous sections. I raised my hand and wrote a note saying "Some people are changing their answers in previous sections" and drew an arrow pointing to her. The proctor comes over, looks at me, and says "it's okay, just erase it" and then winks. He starts walking around the classroom and catches her in the act. He takes her outside and asks if she understood the directions given before the test that explicitly stated that alterations of answers were prohibited. She said that she understood exactly what he said and that she didn't care. She said she wanted extra time and didn't care about the consequences. The moral of the story is to be honest and maintain integrity in all aspects of life; lying  is not a good look. I write this story as a request to my viewers; "Please, don't cheat on me".

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