I don't know why I was thinking of this....
John, I want to say when he was 12 or 13, was hit in the head with a brick. I don't remember the details of what he told me happened, exactly (and actually, now that I think about it he probably doesn't remember them either). Apparently, he and his friends were messing around and some how this brick-hitting happened. His friends thought he was dead, but he wasn't and they took him to the hospital and when people asked him what happened he said he fell. Now, the truth is, one of his mates was responsible for the brick-hitting. John said that when people asked him about what had happened he thought about his friend's parents and how good they had been to him. He didn't want to see them hurt by anything bad happening to their son, so he said he fell.
Now, for some reason, the truth of the situation came out, as it always does in big situations like this, and his mate's parents made his mate go and apologize for all the trouble he had caused. John's parents had only heard John's story so when his mate turned up to apologize to them for hurting their son they were perplexed. If I remember correctly, John then got into trouble for lying.
I was thinking about this while I was walking home today. You know how random stuff just pops into your head. I was listening to The Barenaked Ladies If I had $1,000,000 and singing along while I walked down the street. Its weird how stuff can just pop into your head sometimes. So, I texted John a line from the song, "If I had $1,000,000, I would buy you a monkey". When I see him later, I'm going to ask him if he knows where its from. Then, if he doesn't, I'm going to play it for him.
