Acknowledgements:
Omi as always
The BTN8rs - with apologies
The BTN Chatters - for their support
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only my own writing and characters.
"Standing in the quad in just a bathing suit with an umbrella over your head."
Marshall shot Habib a look of disapproval that had him cowering.
"That's not random, that's sheer idiocy," he scoffed. "We need random, like a non-sequitur."
"But it can't be verbal only," Charlie reminded him. "The assignment was..."
"The assignment is even more idiotic!" Marshall railed. "Why is a physics professor giving us this inane homework when we have some of the most brilliant minds at Princeton? We should be using our intellect to discover new theories not absurdities!"
"I think it's one of those thinking outside the box exercises," Yi Wang mused. "And Professor Fleinhardt's pretty far outside the box."
"He's out there all right," Marshall grumbled. "Out of his head."
"I like him," Charlie said, tapping a pen against the still empty page in his open notebook. "He's an interesting thinker. Eccentric, yes, but so many of the brilliant ones are."
"I'm not," Marshall retorted.
"Exactly." Charlie grinned into his drink as Marshall huffed. "But we still need an example of a totally random event that could happen in the world or did."
Their waitress, who had been hovering nearby, came over with her drink platter in her hand only instead of taking their empties away she showed them what the platter had on it: a single slice of cheese.
"Rhinoceros," she said with all seriousness, then walked away.
As everyone else stared after her, dumbfounded, Charlie put pen to paper writing it down.
"Homework... Done!" He looked up with a goofy smile on his face. "I told you I loved this place!"