I believe I left off with them getting started. I hoped all one of you enjoyed that chapter.
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It didn't take long for the men to figure out that this activity was harder than it should be. So of course being grown men such as themselves, what would they do but solve the issues in a completely mature fashion? Whine like kid's who've had their candy taken away that's what. Thomas was getting increasingly irritated with his group, mainly Van. Hermann was doing well with Schubaltz and the rest of his group, but they weren't making much progress. The rest of the groups were in chaos everyone yelling at everyone else, some of the groups were turning against each other. Yes it was third grade all over again with heaps of blame flying in every direction.
Meanwhile Mixy and two other people who had shown up to watch the fun was enjoying a game of cards.
"Isn't it hard to play solitary with three people?" Asked Wolf with a yawn.
"Nope. Actually it's a lot easier." Replied a blonde girl who was at that moment in deep thought over a five of spades.
"Okay if you say so." Wolf rolled her eyes and turned to the other girl who had just started attacking her book bag. "Meso what are you doing to your back-pack?"
"It bit me!" Meso answered continuing to beat the bag.
"Okay, how exactly did the bag bite you?" Questioned Wolf hoping to God that Meso wasn't going insane, well more insane anyways.
"Actually I don't know, but it won't open." Meso threw the bag on the ground and gave up.
"Right. Loki why don't you just put the five with the six of hearts over there?" Asked Mixy starring at the card.
"Huh? Oh yeah that could work couldn't it?" Loki snapped out of her Trans and put the five down. "So how are the) Reperials doing? (ReperialsRepublicans and Imperialists together. REP-EAR-Y-ALS.)
"I think they're going to kill each other." Speculated Wolf eyeing the crowd below.
"Do you think they've had enough?" Mixy laughed as Van started yelling at Thomas.
"Yeah let's bring them in before they start crying." Meso laughed back.
"Okay men I'm sure you've all completed your task multiple times by now right?" Wolf said scanning the crowd for any signs of achievement. There were none. "You mean to tell me that out of all you strong intelligent men none of you could lower a stick to the ground?" Van felt the need to state his observations on this.
"The sticks were floating! How do you expect us to lower them to the ground of they only go up?" There were murmurs of agreement when Van was done.
"You mean to tell me that these stick defy the laws of physics and gravity?" Retorted Wolf, she was going to have fun with this one. "Mixy, Meso, Loki go collect these wonderful objects I want to test the break through my self." They did as instructed laughing all the way.
Once the stick were in her hands wolf went to the center of the stage they had been sitting on and dropped one of the sticks. It fell to the ground, but there was no floating, gravity took over and that was it.
"Okay now tell me again how exactly does this," she dropped another stick, "count as floating?" Without giving anyone a chance to interject she continued to speak. "This activity is called 'Helium Sticks' I learned of it when I was a freshman in High School. Do you want to know why you weren't able to get the sticks on the ground was?" Nobody answered. "The reason is you, not the stick you had. Look I'll prove it to you." Wolf dropped the reaming sticks one by one. Some of them bounced on the ground, but not a single one of them levitated. "There I hoped you were all paying attention because if you saw any of those float I want you to tell me for you need serious help." O'Connell spoke up with some very sensible words of wisdom.
O'Connell spoke up with some very sensible words of wisdom. "Isn't the reason no one could do it because we all were think what others were doing wrong and not what we could do as a group to fix it?"
"Yes I'm glad you learned something from this. What about everyone, what do you think was the cause of this incredible failure?" Wolf was pleased that the whole group wasn't made up of morons. "Yes Schubaltz what's your insight on this?"
"Everyone was yelling at people in their group, but they weren't saying anything." Replied Schubaltz.
"Yes, there you go. Communications is what Schubaltz says was wrong and he was exactly right. There was a whole lot of talking going on, but nothing was being said."
"What do you mean? That makes no sense." Fumed Van crossing his arms in frustration.
"What I mean is you were all saying thing that didn't mean anything they were just words of anger and disagreement. Nothing useful was coming out of your mouths." Explained Wolf as she walked to the edge of the stage and sat down cross legged. "Let me share something with you. Communications win and lose battles, possibly even wars, on false slip of the tong or misinterpretation and you just shot yourselves in the foot. You lose if you can't communicate that's all there is to it." Wolf had a deadly serious look on her face when she said this. She scanned the crowd to see if what she had said sunk in before she continued. "Okay so we know why we failed does any one have any ideas on how to make it so you could get this down?" Van raised his hand, but Wolf said nothing she just pointed to him signaling him to begin.
"Maybe if we counted down and all moved at the same time it might work better." Suggested Van timidly. He didn't want to sound stupid.
"That's exactly what you should have done," Agreed Wolf, "now what did you learn from this?"
"Fighting with people on your own side is of no use it only gets you into trouble." Stated Thomas when Wolf pointed to him. Irvine was pointed out next, even though he wasn't a soldier he was forced to do this all the same.
"Sometimes things get done faster when you are on your own." Revealed Irvine in his taunting manner.
"Yes that is true as well sometimes groups can only hinder your movement. Wouldn't it have been easier if I gave you each your own stick and told you to do this?" Wolf praised Irvine for his rare insight. "Unfortuneatly you'll be forced to work with people no matter what you do you have to be able to communicate and cooprerate with others there is no escaping that."
"I learned that it is a heck of a lot easier to do this when the sticks don't float, oh and that rules get in the way." Proclaimed proudly.
"Yes it would be rather hard to do this assignment if the sticks floated, but they don't, seriously though you are right about the second one. Rules do get in the way sometimes."
"Well I think you have all had enough for today. It's already bee three hours, so go and get some work done."
That's all for now I have to go and finish my home work. Read and review.
Shamanah: heheheh, van's a bit of a smartass...I like it.
Yes I like it too. No one ever has him as a smartass even though that's what he is so I though I'd change that.