Chapter 3
The next morning, Phil, Tyler, and Joe entered the school with a card table and set it up along the side of the hall. They placed hundreds of composition notebooks, which, of course, were the high-school survival guides. Ned, Cookie, and Moze set up a stand directly across from Phil, Tyler, and Joe. They also had high-school survival guides.
A student passed Phil's stand. "Excuse me, sir, but won't you buy my high-school survival guide? It has high-quality tips that are sure to help you succeed," Phil said.
"I heard that dude over there is selling them," the kid said, pointing to Ned and his crew.
"He is, but his survival guide is unfairly biased and full of completely useless information. My staff and I have confirmed that everything in this set of survival guides is one-hundred percent correct. Not only that, but we are selling them for $10, whereas Ned is selling his for a whooping $20."
"Sold!" the kid said, handing over $10. Phil handed him a set of composition books.
"Have a nice day!" Phil smiled. Then, he smiled smugly at Ned, Cookie, and Moze. "You guys don't stand a chance."
"We'll see about that," Ned said. "Hey, guys!" he shouted. "Buy my survival guide!"
Nevertheless, it did get the students' attention. However, they looked rather frightened by the incident. Phil said, "Why would anyone buy a survival guide from someone who cannot act professional? Would you expect such a person to write a well-thought out survival guide? I think not." With that, people swarmed over to Phil's stand to buy all his survival guides. Phil, Tyler, and Joe were getting richer by the second, while Ned, Cookie, and Moze just sat glumly across the hall watching the other side's success.
As the crowd thinned out minutes later, Phil, Tyler, and Joe closed their stand to head off to class. "Well, we sold every last one of our guides," Tyler sneered. "Perhaps you guys should be better at marketing." With that, Phil, Tyler, and Joe laughed. But they weren't laughing for long.
Mr. Matzger stormed into the hall. "Phillip! Tyler! Joseph! You guys are in big trouble!"
They gulped. "Wh-wh-what did we do?" Joe asked nervously.
"You sold high-school survival guides!" Mr. Matzger snapped.
"So…" Phil asked.
"The school charter clearly forbids students to sell items without expressed permission from a school administrator!" Mr. Matzger exclaimed.
"Oh…" Tyler said.
"Come with me…you're going to detention for 5 straight weeks!" Mr. Matzger said as he literally dragged them to the detention room.
Ned, Cookie, and Moze howled in laughter. "Whew, it's a good thing we didn't sell any survival guides," Cookie said.
"Yeah," Moze said. "Otherwise we'd have detention, too."
"It's good that Phil, Tyler, and Joe got what was coming to them. They deserved it after acting so superior to us," Ned said.
"So, what do you say we close this stand and go to our classes?" Moze suggested.
"That's a good idea," Ned smiled.
The End