Reverse Psychology (Part 2)
All right, here is the best way I have ever used reverse psychology:
It was about a year ago, and I bought myself a new bag for school. Nothing too fancy, just a plain black eastpack bag. Now, there's this guy called Jan in my class, and he likes to annoy, irritate and aggravate people. Why? No one knows. But it so happens to be that he bought the same bag as me. Now, with these types of bags, you can easily loosen or tighten the handles and those were exactly Jan's intentions. When I left my bag unattended, he would tighten the handles of my bag and than make a super knot, and as a result it would take me a whole period to untangle it. So, I began doing the same, since he had the same bag as me, it wasn't too difficult to learn. It was all fun in games at the beginning, but things started getting serious. After many days we developed elite knotting skills, beyond your imagination. From one period of untanglling knots, it jumped to 2 periods, than 3 periods of pure untangling knots. An Over exaggeration? perhaps, but my story has its purpose. Than one day, it was lunch, the bell rang and everyone grabbed their bags and headed off to class. My bag happened to be next to Jan's bag, but since their appearance were identical, I had to look inside, to see which one was mine. In the corner of my eyes, I saw Jan walking towards me. That's when the brilliant idea crossed my mind. Quickly, I took my bag, and ran away with it, acting like it was Jan's bag. Instead of Jan running after me, he went to his bag which he assumed was mine. (Still following?). I than shouted behind him and said "Dude, seriously, please don't tie a knot in it again! Come on!" and he took the bait. On that day he made a mega-super-ultra knot... in his own bag. I was just staring at him, holding in my laughter. For a couple minutes he was busy making the knot. At one point I burst into laughter and shouted out "Anyways, good luck untangling the knot out of your bag." He hastily looked into the bag to check if it was his. Well, you can only imagine his expression on his face that day, i'm the one that saw it.
And that's how reverse psychology can work to your advantage.
- DeBeer