This is an anecdote for school.
"You Fool!"
Many kids often find themselves laughing when they see their friend getting chastised by an adult. Well, what if you see your friend, driving a car, texting, and their so-called "grandmother" ordering her to stop-all while watching an educational video for class? That is exactly what happened when I chose to make a talk show about Middle Eastern culture for history class last year.
My neighbors, Lydia and Sarah, had come to my house to help film and act in it. I wanted to make commercials for "The Chloe Lang Show", so Sarah and I came up with an idea. The best humor comes from spur-of-the-moment ideas. I was eating Twizzlers in the kitchen, and Sarah yelled, "You fool! Don't you know that eating too many Twizzlers could damage your brain function FOREVER?!" (You see, she is very imaginative.) That became the punch line for our series of public service announcements You Fool.
Using the Twizzler joke, Sarah and I sat on our front porch, me eating Twizzlers, and her with a curly, elderly, blonde wig placed on her head. She recited the lines, and the You Fool! series was a hit with my class.
Everyone know texting and driving is illegal. Well, so do grandparents. I was in the front seat, "driving" in my driveway, texting, and Sarah had her wig on again. Here is what we said,
Sarah: "You fool! How dare you text and drive!"
Me: "Grandma, we're stuck in traffic! This person in front of me WON'T. MOVE." (take note that there was a garbage can in front of me-we are in my drive way)
Sarah: "I don't care if you have to go to the mall. I don't care if you want your tube socks. I don't even care if they're IN!! Now, don't text and drive or something bad will happen. Something like a SQUIRREL might come!!!"
(insert my mom throwing my sister's webkinz chipmunk at the windshield, me "crashing" into the person in front of me, my head banging on the horn, Sarah screaming, and Lydia making "shhhh" sounds as if the camera is messed up.)
All that, and the moving text bar at the bottom saying, "This has been a public service announcement (hence the poor filming quality :P). Please do not text and drive, especially in places inhabited by flying squirrels and/or chipmunks."
See, public service announcements in the middle of an educational talk show about the Middle East can be funny, and inform you not to eat a lot of poisonous Twizzlers and not to text while driving, for rabid flying chipmunks may cause a car crash. :)