One time we came across the movie Sahara starring Brook Shields. It was already the evening when we began watching it and by the time it ended and we continued killing time just hanging out, it was close to midnight. I offered to drive everyone home afterwards.

As we piled up into the car something occurred to me. “It’s pretty late and we’re probably gonna get stopped and asked where we’re going. If I say I am dropping you guys off he’s gonna wonder what we had been up to this late. We can’t say we were watching an illegal movie. So we need to get our stories straight.”

“No one’s gonna be stopping us,” Ardi said. “Let’s just go.”  

“Ok but if we do get stopped, let’s say we were all playing a computer game. There’s nothing illegal about that.”

“Fine,” Ardi replied.

“Wait,” I continued. “What if they ask us what we were playing? We can’t have different stories. We have to coordinate this.”

“No one is gonna ask us these stupid questions. The cops probably don’t even know what a computer is. Just let it go.”

“There’s no harm in playing it safe,” I argued. “If they ask we’ll just say we were playing the Flight Simulator game.” I shut the car door and started the car.

“Wait,” Kamyar said, his voice dripping sarcasm. “What if they ask us how many points we each got?”