A man was walking down the road, when he came across a box sitting in the middle of it.

There was a piece of paper on it that said,

Whatever you do, don't, look inside.

But of course, being told not to do something makes people want to do it even more.

In any case, he picked the box up and took it somewhere more private.

He reached his hand out towards the box, but then he stopped to think.

What if it's a bomb?

If the box was a trap, it wasn't outside the realm of possibility that there was some type of trick to it. He thought.

He wanted to see inside, but just on the off chance.

He was scared.

Then, he had a brilliant idea.

He would ask someone else to open it for him.

He went and put the box back. At the same time, he heard the sound of someone walking down the road towards the box, whistling. I'm gonnae. The Hey guys.

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