200 WORDS OR LESS:
DECEIVED!
Today's question comes from Northwestern University's Freshman admission application:
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We are often misled by the appearance of things, of people, even of ourselves. Write about an appearance that deceived you and analyze its significance to you.
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When I was nine, I saw a leprechaun. Unlike some losers, however, I actually caught mine. I was walking through the countryside, enjoying my evening constitutional...
[begin flashback]
Harv: Look! A leprechaun! I'm gonna catch him!
[brief struggle]
Harv: GOTCHA! Now give me the gold, you rotten little leprechaun!
Leprechaun: Let me go ya freakin' lunatic! I'm not a leprechaun! I'm a llama!
Harv: Gimme my gold!
Leprechaun: Look, you psychotic retard, why don't you try reading the sign over there? What's that say?
Harv: Llucky Llarry's Lleprechaun Farm.
Leprechaun: Llama Farm! What's the matter with you, you illiterate feeb? Are you some kind of Massachusetts school superintendent?
Harv: Ha! If you were really a llama, I'd be able to milk you. I'm pulling, but I don't see any milk.
Leprechaun: I'm not female.
Harv: Oops. Sorry.
Leprechaun: Believe me, I'm not that upset. [wink]
Harv: Hmmm... so how come you can talk?
Leprechaun: ...
Harv: Well?
Leprechaun: Baaaa?
Harv: That's a sheep.
Leprechaun: ...crap. Ok, gold's behind that stump.
Harv: Sweet!
[end flashback]
Turns out the "gold" was heavily-corn-fed llama droppings.
Lesson learned: never trust a sober Irishman. Or an Irishman, sober. I forget which.
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