27-ABBIE

“Time's up, everyone put down your knives.”

I dropped the knife as soon as Louis said it, and I started to wipe the river of tears that ran down my face.

This was stupid.

Jerry, one of my classmates, was the stupidest.

With the comment of "I'm the fastest chopper in the class, teacher, do you want to see?"

Louis had taken it literally, so he made us all compete to see who chopped the most onions in brunoise. The result? Twenty tear-eyed people trying to decently slice onions without cutting their fingers in a minute.

As it turned out, Jerry wasn't the fastest chopping onions, he even came close to being.

"Your cut is sloppy and inconsistent, Jerry, did you spend that long chopping an onion and a half? I thought I was a good teacher, now your result makes me feel mediocre.” was Louis's final decision.

In the end the winner turned out to be Ligia, one of the quietest girls in the room who managed to chop almost four onion