The Bully and the Shutdown

So imagine there’s this bully see?

You are at school about to eat lunch.

This bully, let’s call him Biff.

Biff, he walks up to you and takes the bag of chips your mother (or father) packed in your bag.  He says to you, “Those chips, they are mine now.  You can’t have them. In fact, I just might throw them away.”

Okay, whatever.  You try to get them back.  You mention to the cafeteria monitor and they say they’ll look into the situation. They’ll get back to you on that.  Sixty percent of the kids notice and think to themselves, “Biff is just being Biff.”

A little bit later, before you eat your delicious black forest ham on whole wheat bread Biff comes along and takes it.  He says you can’t have it until you give him your mint condition Lebron James rookie card.

You balk at this and say “No way!”

A little while passes and the other kids in the cafeteria start staring at Biff angrily and he starts to sweat.  70% of them hate him now. He comes at you with a deal.

“Tell you want I’m gonna do.  I will give you your sandwich back.  I will give you your bag of chips back.  Well...I ate half the bag, but you can have it back.  I will give that all back to you for your mint condition Lebron James rookie card and also your mint condition Klay Thompson rookie card.”

And then the guy a couple seats down, let’s say his name is James Lankford says to you, “That sounds like a great deal!”

A couple other kids start to tell you that you are being unreasonable if you decline this offer. The school newspaper says that both sides share the blame in this.  

But you hold to your guns. Hoping that most those kids in that cafeteria realize that the deal is poison.  That it’s a horrible offer.