Thursday, August 6, 2009

Human Torso

I walked into my Biology II classroom today and I noticed a box.
It was just a long cardboard box that was loosly closed. It was sitting in the spot where I usually put my books, so I was going to move it.

My first thought as that it must be filled with the extra frogs from disecting last week. It didn't smell like fermaldihide so I thought that maybe it was just stuff from around the classroom.

As I aproached the box I noticed, written in permanent marker, "Human Torso". I stopped dead in my tracks. I was so scared that it wasn't even funny. I knew that in Biology you were expected to disect things, but to me this had gone just a little too far.

I gathered my wits and walked to the box and hesitantly grabbed a corner of one of the flaps. I slowly began to open the box. As one of the flaps was completely open, I could see a human torso.......

I saw intestines, the liver, and then noticed that these all had numbers written on them, and that there was a glare on them as well.

This torso was just a model we had been using only a few weeks before this to identify body parts.

I sighed in great relief to find that it was just plastic.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

haha that was so funny i really believed you when you said it was what it said it was: a human torso. and then you described the falseness of it and also sighed in relief. i love you jessica, keep writting

Jessica Eileen Willis said...

thank you Jordan!!
Oh, could you tell me your URL?

Laura Willis said...

You are very brave, you could have asked one of the boys in the class. Then you are very smart too, heaven only knows what they would have said. =)

Jessica Eileen Willis said...

I was alone....and there is only one guy in the class...and he would soooo have made fun of me. lol

Mike and Marisa Compton said...

Bah! Thats awesome! Sometimes our minds make the worst out of a situiation. Thats positivly hillairous.

What I want to know is what would you have done if it was a cadaver?