! Even Green Bears Like Anecdotes About Them

Which college student would turn down even a few dollars? A notice goes, up, Dr. Wegner wants some volunteers for half-an-hour, most, in the Cognitive Research lab… so when it’s my turn in the queue, I go in and he says, now go in there for fifteen minutes, only one instruction, don’t think about a green bear… so, money for old rope, with bear attached, I go in there, check every few minutes that I haven’t thought about some idiotic green bear… come out, he’s sitting there with all his smug students and assistants, looking just as if I were some green bear, about to amuse them hugely… so to shut their silly faces up, I don’t wait, but say, if you’re going to ask me did I think about that green bear no I didn’t once I checked every few minutes to see if I’d thought about it no… and they all laughed…ticked the boxes, wrote in their don’t- I- love-my-Prof little notebooks with their smug little smiles to each other… now I go to sleep thinking of feeding them one by one to that green bear, wow they taste good… I mean, who in their right mind ever thinks of some green bear…