"Well why don't you come down here and hand it in?"
"Because the guards aren't letting me in."
"Well why don't you just hand it in through the window?"
I went to remove the screen that covered the window, the only obstacle keeping my essay from the Prize Office. The security guards standing behind me had been talking animatedly with Dean Epps for the past five minutes. But when I started removing the screen they stopped.
"Hey what are you doing? You're not allowed to remove that screen! That's defacing public property."
"But that man in there said I should hand in my essay through the window."
"Well you can't remove the screen."
I was exasperated. "So what can I do?"
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