It’s important to teach your kid early that they shouldn’t accept any gifts from strangers…even a little kid can learn that easily. Learning when not to accept a gift from a friend is a lot harder, so you should leave that for later, when they’re a bit older…and it seems that, unfortunately, Gregory’s parents never got around to that part.

Not that Gregory stood much of a chance. The Professor is the Professor, after all, and thus an eminently trustworthy person by principle and profession – and in his current iteration he’s also blond, blue-eyed and has a cute smile. Gregory would have needed to roll a natural twenty to grow suspicious of the Professor’s motives.

With those odds, the Professor’s dastardly plan goes off without a hitch. Gregory re-hydrates and at the same time self-selects for the position of club president. But Gregory might actually make a pretty fine club president. It’s a well-known paradox of executive functions: those people who want them are, by evidence of that, the wrong people for them – the pursuit of power is not a good qualification for wielding power. By that logic tricking somebody into assuming an executive function they didn’t pursue has the potential for a better outcome.

Which is a valid consideration, but probably not actually the consideration that got the Professor to do this – but that will need to remain undisclosed for a while longer. Anyway…Congratulations, Gregory.

More on Thursday.