The Duct Tape

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Rachel: Hey Katherine, you can make a bracelet out of a duct tape roll.
Katherine: That’s cool Rachel, but remember what mom said: “Don’t ever sleep with a duct tape roll on your wrist.
Rachel: Don’t worry; I won’t.

Rachel: I’m tired. I’m going to sleep.

Katherine: Rachel, it’s time to get up.
Rachel: I don’t want to get up.
Katherine: Come on Rachel—you have to go to school.
Rachel: Go away!
Katherine: Rachel, you need to get up.
Rachel: Okay, fine, I’ll get up…Katherine—I can’t get up.
Katherine: Rachel, you’re just being lazy.
Rachel: No, seriously, I cannot get up.
Katherine: Come on Rachel; it’s not like you’re stuck to the bed or something….

Katherine: Oh. Rachel, how did this happen?
Rachel: I must have accidentally slept with the duct tape.
Katherine: Rachel, I told you never to sleep with duct tape.
Rachel: Okay, I’m sorry. But right now could you get me out of here?
Katherine: Okay, I’ll try, but how hard can it be?

Katherine: I can’t get you out. Let’s try pulling.
Rachel: Yow! Yow!
Katherine: That doesn’t work either.
Rachel: Maybe you could get a knife and cut me free.

Katherine: I’ve got the knife.
Rachel: Hahaha, that tickles.
Katherine: Dang it. What am I going to do now?
Rachel: Get some really sharp scissors.
Katherine: These should work…nope.

Katherine: I know, I’ll slide you out with this spatula.
Well that didn’t work. Don’t worry, I have a bunch of other ideas.
Rachel: Oh no.
Katherine: Maybe I can peel off the duct tape with this carrot peeler . . . nope.
Katherine: Can opener.
Rachel: No way. How about even help.

Rachel: Katherine, none of your ideas are working.
Katherine: Well, it looks like you’re stuck there forever.
Rachel: Wait Katherine. I forgot. I always sleep with a box cutter under my pillow.
Katherine: Okay, that’s just weird. I’m not telling anyone we’re related. There it is.

Rachel: I’m Free!
Rachel: That is the last time I sleep with duct tape.
 

 Questions

1. Katherine and Rachel’s mother told them something. True or false? What did Katherine and Rachel’s mother tell them?

2. Did Rachel listen to her mother? What happened that night?

3. Rachel woke up by herself the next morning; she wanted to go to school. Is this right or wrong?

4. Could Rachel get up from bed? Why couldn’t she get up?

5. Did Katherine try to free Rachel? What did she do?

6. What happened in the end? Did they solve the problem?

7. What was the moral or lesson of the skit?
 
 

A. Is there duct tape in your house?

B. Did your mother or father tell you not to do something? My mother told me not to . . . . .

C. Have you or your friend ever been stuck on a tree, fence, bed, etc?

D. Sometimes I don’t feel like getting out of bed. Sometimes I don’t want to go to school. Yes or no?

E. What will happen to Katherine and Rachel?