Honestly, Abe / by Courtney Mehlhaff

A couple weeks ago, I was playing a game with my sister and some friends where we all logged into a Playstation console with our phones.

We were partway through a sort of murder mystery challenge when the following problem appeared on the TV: “If none of you pushes the button, you all survive. However, if one of you pushes the button, everyone else will die.”

I turned to my sister to strategize, “Well, obviously nobody should push the button . . .”

I was interrupted by the sound of everyone’s characters immediately dying on the screen.

“I pushed it,” my sister said, nonchalantly. Then she began laughing hysterically. “I pushed it before you even finished talking!”

Every avatar for himself, I guess. You’ll be pleased to know I exacted my revenge later that evening, when we switched to a game that required us to fill in the blanks of this statement: “Abraham Lincoln referred to having sex as ______.”

I wrote “the Ejaculation Proclamation” and I think I won at life.