Amy had learned a lot in her seventeen years on Earth, but on this day she learned something new.

It's hard to run in high heels. If she were wearing ordinary sneakers, she would be moving much faster.

When Amy got five houses away, she realized she forgot her umbrella.

The sky was still very gray and the wind was still blowing. It looked like it could start pouring again at any second.

Amy thought as she ran. What would be worse-not arriving at graduation at all, or arriving at graduation soaking wet? Both possibilities made her cringe.

She kept running. Better to show up soaked than not show up at all. Besides, she would probably be sitting still for an hour or so before she walked across the stage. Hopefully she would be dry by then. Hopefully.

It started to rain again.

Amy decided to move to the other side of the street, because it had more trees with longer branches than the side she was on.

She checked her watch. It was 9:11 AM.

Amy went past one stop sign in a residential zone. Than a second. Then a third.

Now there were no trees on either side of the street she was on. Worse, the rain was falling harder

Today was trash day, and everyone had their trash at the curb.

Then Amy got an idea.

She saw an empty pizza box in a recycling bin, and grabbed it, holding it over her head.

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

But it wasn't a good idea.

The wind picked up, pushing against Amy from her left, and Amy's mortarboard blew right off her head at a 90-degree angle.

Amy looked to her right. Her mortarboard was nowhere in sight.

She needed to find it. She couldn't attend the ceremony without it.

Just when she thought things couldn't possibly get any worse, they got worse.

She tossed the pizza box aside. If she found her mortarboard, she was holding onto it for dear life.

Amy turned to her right and began walking. Her eyes were shifting from location to location like a pinball bouncing off the walls of the machine./pp

Her mortarboard must either be under something or behind something. But what?

Another time check.

9:15 AM.

Is Amy Farrah Fowler doomed to miss her one and only high school graduation? Keep reading and see!