How did you cheat?

I read this today:

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/02/kids-howtocheat-vide.html

Basically it's about kids posting videos on YouTube about how they are able to cheat. LOL as if looking up answers from Wikipedia and Yahoo answers wasn't enough, here comes YouTube to the lazy ass kids' rescue. I have not watched any of these demos but I had my share of cheating back in school. I'm not a master of cheating, to be honest. I just looked over people's papers when the teacher wasn't looking. But there was this one incident that stands out.

I had this classmate named Kaye in grade school. She was seated next to me because our seating arrangement was made according to the alphabetical order of our surnames. I was the last of the A's and she was the first of the B's so there you go. She came across as confused or troubled (just like me, but I sorta got away with the academic part). And she wasn't really good with her Math skills. We had a test coming up and she begged me to help her. She asked me so many times if she could copy some of my answers. I was the type who couldn't say no probably because I was so insecure and bullied back then and having someone like her (she was kinda popular... because she... I actually have no idea why she was.) to ask me a favor was a fresh of breath air. And I hope you noticed I switched the two words.

It's odd that we were allowed to share pens and pencils and stuff during tests, you know, that kind of communication during examinations even though you are not talking to each other. The teacher didn't even consider it suspicious.  So we had a plan. WE'D SHARE A RUBBER ERASER. A frikkin rubber eraser.

So the eraser was with me then I'd solve a problem first while she waited and tried to act busy with her own paper. Then I'D WRITE MY ANSWERS ON THE RUBBER ERASER USING A PENCIL. The eraser was this small:

So I'd try my hardest to write the whole computation on that eraser. Then I'd give the eraser to her and she'd start copying the answer from the eraser to her paper. As she did that, I was busy working on the next problem, or problems because it took her a long time to understand what I just wrote. (LOL what's the point of copying it eh??)  When she was done, she'd rub the eraser with her finger so she could erase the writings on it. So you can imagine the pile of lint on her table. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA!

The eraser went back and forth and I actually finished the test despite the distraction aka my classmate. She didn't and we already had to pass the test paper. For some reason, she was still fussing about the test that the teacher noticed us and she went, "What's the problem?" and her voice sounded so authoritative. Being the Oscar winners that we were, we acted like innocent girls and we were so convincingly innocent you would have thought that we just came from our mommies' gina. So there, we got away with the cheating.

She flunked the test.

AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!

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