It’s not unusual for secret messages to get passed around in schools.
As is so often the case, this may involve love notes. In the case in question, these messages had been passing between several pupils for a number of weeks. It involved six of them. Three girls, Maggie, Sally and Annie, and three boys, Micky, Arnie and Reggie. One of these boys, Micky, decided that it was all becoming much too complicated. In fact, as to who actually liked who was so complex it had become very hard to follow. He decided that they should all meet up in the undercover shelter in the far corner of the playground at lunchtime to get it all straight. Despite it taking several days to convince all of them that it was a good idea, they eventually agreed to get together as proposed.
Sounding very grown up, he began, “We all know why we’re here.”
After a bit of giggling, whispering and finally a few nods, he continued. “OK. I like Maggie, but she likes Arnie, Arnie likes Sally, she likes Reggie, but he likes Annie and Annie likes Philip.”
They all looked at one another.
Annie put her hand up and asked, “Who’s Philip?”