I was at an event where they had a few contests. One was where you had to guess the weight of a watermelon. The prize was the watermelon.

I don’t usually bother with such things but this was a charity event and someone was pestering me to do it.

I looked at the watermelon and lifted it and guessed that it was around 6 pounds so I wrote that down.

I noticed that my guess was the highest so far. I thought “If the watermelon was heavier than my guess, then I could win the watermelon.”

What was I going to do with a watermelon? I can’t stand the bloody things. They’re inconvenient to carry around and eat and even worse to taste.

I looked down at the sheet. It’d look bad if I just scratched out my name. So I wrote in a “2” in front of my guess so that it was now “26”

Disaster averted.