This happened a few years back.
I was having my fast food fix one afternoon, and a group of secondary school boys of five had just finished their meals.
Four of them just stood up and started walking off.
Only one student stayed back and started clearing the trays.
Two other students saw what their friend did, started walking back to help him clear up the trays.
Their expressions like how we walked out of our homes and forget our masks, "Shit I forgot!"
The other two students who walk out without clearing their trays, looked back and gave the three a look of disdain and continued walking out.
Then the funny (or sad) part occurred.
One of the two students who went back to help clear their trays, decided to join the other two students who walked out when he saw they didn't come back to help out.
I can see the vacillations on his face.
Instinctively, he knew what's the "right thing" to do.
If not he would have continued walking out like the other two boys.
I guess the need to "fit-in" with the other two boys has triumphed in the end. He quickly ran after the two who left.
I just sat there sipping my coke as I watched those two boys who stayed behind, cleared all the trays - their own and their friends' ones.
This happens a lot in our lives, doesn't it?
