Context: This guy from my frat (Iβm in a coed academic frat) is really into geography, and heβs been trying to learn all the state capitals of Brazil. I happen to be Brazilian, so Iβve been helping him learn them along with pronunciations. One day I was eating a pack of m&ms and decided to quiz him. If he got the question right he got an m&m, and if he got it wrong Iβd eat it. Thus a tradition between us was born. If Iβm eating a snack Iβll quiz him a bit and give him a tiny treat if heβs right.
Anyways, today I was in our frat lounge eating some m&ms by myself, kinda minding my own business. I eventually got really bored and wondered what would happen if I gave everyone in a lounge an m&m except for him, so I did that. He noticed and then started dropping every Brazilian state capital he could think of, getting increasingly desperate until he just started naming random Brazilian cities. A few of them he repeated multiple times to get the perfect pronunciation. It was like watching a dog do every trick it knows in rapid succession, just hoping something would get a treat. I eventually gave him a few m&ms and started wondering what the hell Iβve done