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The ifs, the ands, the butts – at Shenkar College

After fruitful careers as a scientist and inventor I've gone back to what I love most - writing children's books Read More
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It was early morning at Shenkar College. Students had queued up at the cafeteria to get their morning fix of caffeine. They didn’t know what was in store for them.

A contest. Doesn’t everyone love a contest?

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Today’s contest was to estimate how many cigarette butts were on the ground of one of our adjacent outdoor patios.

Gal guessed 250.

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Yifat guessed 100.

Omer guessed 200.

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The ifs, the ands, the butts – at Shenkar College by Mel Rosenberg - מל רוזנברג - Ourboox.com

Hadar guessed 500.

 

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Dafna guessed 240.

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The ifs, the ands, the butts – at Shenkar College by Mel Rosenberg - מל רוזנברג - Ourboox.com

Ravid’s guess was 124.

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Irene guessed 221.

Yotam, the optimist in the gang,  guessed 20.

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Now, the only problem was to collect and count all the cigarette butts in the courtyard. That proved to be a major chores. At first, a group of students sitting on the patio were unimpressed.

“Why should we collect the butts?” they asked. “We didn’t throw them on the patio in the first place.”

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I explained that they weren’t required by law to help me. “I will collect them myself,” I told them.

After all someone had to it. How else would we determine the winner?

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I started getting down on my old knees, collecting butts. Suddenly they had a change of heart. They helped. And not only did they help, I think they actually enjoyed it. Some of them even smiled.

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But my biggest Shenkar hero of the day was Adam Efrati. He collected over 100 butts. He wasn’t even eligible for the contest prize! That is what I call a great guy.

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So, ladies and gentlemen, this is part of the haul. Tomorrow is a new day, and to be frank we didn’t finish collecting all the butts. But we will get to the bottom of it and announce a winner.

In the meantime, looks like Hadar’s guess of 500 is going to be the winner by a long shot.

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And what will we do with all the butts we collect?

Looks like Hen and Topaz have their work cut out for them.

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