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June 15, 2009

Creative thinking

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I've sat through my fair share of graduations. Eighth grade. High school. College. Grad school. Law school. Other peoples' graduations. And, all of them were boring to tears. My DePaul one, especially. Our speaker was the author of the V.I. Warshawski detective novels, and her speech went on for about 45 minutes. It was excruciating. Law school graduation was tough, in that I had that disastrous head injury the week before. College graduation? Pretty sure I was drunk.

Anyway, one lady found a novel way to get her graduation over with quickly. This is a solution that was not available to me:

Expectant mother Dawn Thompson Ester thought she had gone into labor during Friday’s commencement at Columbus State University. So, she was moved up from No. 749 in the order for receiving degrees to first place in line.

Ester got her diploma and then rushed off the stage with one hand clutching the document and the other on her swollen belly. A medic with a stretcher was waiting to take her to the hospital.

Oh, giving birth, are we? You can't fool doctors that easily, lady! They busted her right away:

But it turned out the pains were just a false alarm, and the hospital sent her home.

They should have made her go back to the end of the line. Cheater!

entry no. 1389
Posted at June 15, 2009 03:12 PM

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