A very wise man once said: “There’s an old saying in Tennessee – I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee – that says, fool me once, shame on – shame on you. Fool me – you can’t get fooled again.”
So, yeah…Gregory shouldn’t have fallen for the same trick again, but it happens. I know it happens in Texas, probably in Tennessee. And it happens in Canadapan, obviously. No biggie, just a little stupidie.
And, in Gregory’s defense, the second strike came wrapped in some highly distracting camouflage. Disguised as an offer of grey-area illicit alcohol from a person of (highly questionable) authority. Yeah, all of Maru-maru’s points stand…there’s never been any mention of the drinking age in Canadapan, and how any such barrier would apply to somebody who’s younger than he used to be is far from obvious. So perhaps he simply is allowed to drink in the first place. But on the other hand, he is a high-schooler in many regards (for example the one of attending high school, which is pretty central to the whole concept)…and a high-schooler being offered a drink by a teacher is bound to feel a stressful amount of temptation. So, yeah…it was stupid to fall for this again, but it wasn’t as stupid as accepting another bottle of sports drink from the Bratessor would have been. You could say he hasn’t really been fooled twice, but only 1.75 times.
Oh…and when I said that Maru-maru’s points stand, I meant those in panel three. Those in panel four are really pretty desperate. XD
More on Monday.