Law school teaches important life lessons.
For example, today in Evidence we not only learned the federal rules of evidence, we also learned the importance of checking out romantic partners.
Consider the following hypo. You've been dating a girl for about two weeks. Things seem great, she seems fantastic. One night you're just hanging out at her place, and she runs out to pick up a pizza, leaving you just hanging out. You're sitting there, watching TV, when you notice that there in plain sight on the coffee table is a journal. A journal with a lock that is very much unlocked. So, class poll, who peeks at the journal?
Most of us (myself included) raise our hands. The response?
"All of you get to live! The rest of you are dead!" Mass confusion.
"She's a psychopath! You open that up and it's all gee, that's the fourth boyfriend I've killed this year. I love the taste of blood. So you high tail it out of there! the rest of you? Dead."
Upon one of the people with moral scruples and privacy concerns raising their hand for a question -
"You can't ask questions, you're dead!"
After some more class discusion, "how many wouldn't at least google them?"
To the 5 still raising their hands. "I ought to kill you myself!"
When the idea that she may have wanted you to read the journal is suggested -
"Who plants a journal unlocked for you to read? sick, needy bastard"
The supposed point of all this was to introduce the propensity rule. What I got out of it was a hilarious class period, and a renewed curiosity about Zach's journal.
Do it. Reading my husband's journals was one of the most entertaining and englightening afternoons I've had. (With his permission, of course.) =)
ReplyDeletehahaha... I did a full background check on my husband, convinced I was going to marry someone crazy (again).
ReplyDeleteFor people who won't even google the person they are dating... scary.
That was hilarious...What a great class!
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