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240 Social Promotion High School — "Where Success is Automatic!" ™

For Tuesday, August 27, Day 240 of the 2024 Story-a-Day Challenge

By Gerard DiLeoPublished about a year ago 2 min read
"Whatever!"

This is my third year at Social Promotion High School. I don't know what I learned the first two years, but I know my third will be just as important. This year I've signed up for the following courses:

  • Sleeping In, from 8 AM to 10 AM
  • Coffee and Energy-Drinking, from 10 AM to 11-ish
  • Lunch-and-Carbs, from 11-ish AM to Whenever
  • Live Television, from Whenever to Whatever
  • Rap Poetry Masters, from Whatever to 2:30 PM-ish
  • Drunk Driving Course, on Friday afternoons, extending into the weekend

I play on SPHS's football team. We're the Spuds. The "Fightin' Spuds." We have a perfect record, but it's not wins.

GO SPUDS!

Guaranteed! https://www.cafepress.com/shop/DiLingo

Today, during Live Television, we saw some really cool products on the Shopping Network. There was this gun that looks just like a real gun. I think it's because it's a real gun. I can't wait to see the hysterical expressions on the cops' faces. You print the bullets with a 3D printer, which is way cool.

Today's Friday, so it's my Drunk Driving Course. This week I'm learning weaving, texting, and sexting. My instructor is this sexy babe, Borrelia F'spot. How do people get apostrophes in their names? I knew an O'Connor once. Weird.

Borrelia doesn't speak English, but I don't speak it no good neither. Last week she picked me up for instruction and she said, "Sorry...I'm late." But she was on time, so I didn't understand.

"You will when you have your own," she said after that. I didn't understand again. So weird. Sexy, though, and sometimes she drives naked below the waist where other traffic can't see. Cool.

On a Proud Parent's Trans-Am

I failed my Pedantic Poetry course last year, but they promoted me anyway.

Don't they always! Just like all the participation medals I've gotten for D&D and the Shoplifting Club. This year, our Strip Bingo Contest is sponsored by Blown Away Hospital, the place they take you when you get blown away. Or almost.

Tonight after Drunk Driving I'll be drunk when the Fightin' Spuds play the Visitors at Low Life Stadium. If we win...then we finally have. So cool.

When I grow up, I want to help people, work for world peace, and kick ass!

"Dang! Maybe I should grow my mullet back. Or another tattoo."

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AUTHOR'S NOTES:

For Tuesday, August 26, Day 240 of the 2024 Story-a-Day Challenge

366 WORDS (without A/N)

Accompaniment photos were AI-generated but the promotions were not.

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THIS CHALLENGE MARCHES ON, 366 COOL VIBES AT A TIME..

There are currently three surviving prolific, royal, Vocal legumes still trading cows in the 2024 Story-a-Day Challenge:

• L.C. Schäfer, (Originating Challenger)

• Rachel Deeming (Unchallenged)

• Gerard DiLeo (Challenged)

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About the Creator

Gerard DiLeo

Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

Make me rich! https://www.amazon.com/Gerard-DiLeo/e/B00JE6LL2W/

My substrack at https://substack.com/@drdileo

[email protected]

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  • Cindy Calderabout a year ago

    There is absolutely no doubt that cynical, satirical writing is your strongest asset in your array of creative efforts. Really liked this piece as social promotion is indeed an existing problem in most educational systems.

  • I'm not sure if I wanna go to this school 😅 Loved your story!

  • L.C. Schäferabout a year ago

    Drunk driving course had me snorting hot chocolate out of my nose! 😂

  • D. J. Reddallabout a year ago

    HA! Searing parodic satire that makes me dread the looming fall semester.

  • John Coxabout a year ago

    Profoundly cynical and uproariously funny, Gerald!

  • C. Rommial Butlerabout a year ago

    Well-wrought! "This Might Be Satire": https://youtu.be/-iZNkI1Iuok?si=TFTymxB9yJqE_83g

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