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Our school got new washrooms with automatic hand-dryers over the summer break. Us boys liked to aim them down our shirts and pants, feeling the warm air as our clothes bubbled and ballooned. It made for good times, so we told the girls. They claimed to have new hand-dryers, too.

“How many do you have?”

“Two,” Ashley said.

“We have three,” Noel declared triumphantly. “Way more than two!”

Since we were in the third grade this year, this statement was profoundly true.

“Oh yeah? Well our washroom has a couch!”

“Does not.”    

“Does!”

Noel shuffled his feet. “No.”

“Yes it does,” chimed Elisia, Ashley’s best friend. “It’s super-comfy, too!”

The girls giggled and pranced away, leaving Noel and I dismayed. A couch in the bathroom? Suddenly our hand-dryers didn’t seem so special, even if we did have an extra one.

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