I decked him with a single blow.
Of course they arrested me, but there was justification and surely the court will understand. It went down like this:. last year I enrolled in a genetic survey. Dr Franklin told me I carried a hereditary predisposition to obesity, so I joined a gym. Hour after hour of weights. How I hated those workouts!
Today, Franklin revealed it had all been a joke—or, as he put in, I was in the control group that received a fake diagnosis.
Wouldn’t you have decked the bugger?
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Friday fictioneers is a weekly challenge set by Rochelle Wisoff Fields to write a 100-word story in response to a photo prompt. You can find other stories here
Neil MacDonald Author 
The placebo did not work for you, or more for the doctor? He got socked, and you got arrested 🙂
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A reflection on research ethics
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Dear Neil,
Dr. Franklin has a warped sense of humor. Although if the narrator is in better shape. to deliver the wollop….:)
Shalom,
Rochelle
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An unintended consquence
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Yep, I would have definitely purchased a pie just for the joy of smashing it into his face. Good one! Now, go have some sweet treat!
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Thanks so much, Bear
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More than once! 🙂
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He had it coming
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Oh dear, this was funny.
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Thanks so much
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Yes, absolutely! He deserved every thump
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The judge may not see it that way
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They so often don’t!
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Gym’s are my least favourite thing. You did well to only sock him
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He thought so too
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I bloody well would!!
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He may call you as a witness
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And with all of the muscle they had developed, I’m sure that punch packed a wallop. I love the sense of irony in this, Neil.
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There is a sort of poetic justice in the muscles
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Not sure, if I ended up losing weight and getting in shape I think I would laugh and say ‘jokes on you’.
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I can’t tell you how he hated working out
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So maybe not entirely fiction?
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Entirely fiction. But he confides in me
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Placebo treatments are a bizarre thing indeed. Maybe he should be grateful the gym gave him the strength to land a better punch!
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When he reflects later, he may do, He may even be ashamed
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Well the workout did help in giving a more effective blow. I doubt the doctor expected that in his hypothesis though.
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It was an uncontrolled variable
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If Dr Franklin hadn’t had him lifting weights for weeks the punch probably wouldn’t have hurt so much!
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Poetic justice
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I was part of psych research in college. I was in the control group too. In stead of hitting the professor, I took the opportunity to hit on her. Fun story, Neil. 🙂
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Hope it didn’t bias the results. Thanks, Bill
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I don’t know. 🙂
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sounds good to me. 🙂
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A second character witness!
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all that gym work turn you into a boxer. Yep, I would have decked him if I could have got away with it. should have asked for the gym membership money in the first placed. In any case dishonesty deserves what it gets.
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An eye for an eye
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Love it – a member of the control group losing control. A bit more fact-checking next time should keep your aggrieved protagonist out of jail.
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Thanks so much, Jilly
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Yes! Or…maybe. Getting an incentive to keep fit might be a good thing!
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That would be the upside. But he doesn’t see it that way
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Ah yes, yes I would have
Nicely done Neil. This did give me a laugh
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Then my work here is done. Thanks, Laurie
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