It was art day at school.
Each child got the opportunity to draw what they wanted.
Jimmy was drawing away like the other kids. His friend William, looks over.
"Uh-ma" says Johnny. "You drew the purple milkshake"
William and Johnny have been best mates since kindergarten, but William's hand shoots straight up.
"Sir, Johnny drew a purple milkshake"
Mr Johnson's jaw drops. "Straight to the principals office young man!"
Little Johnny is baffled. He goes to the principals office.
"Now young man, what have you done?"
"All I did was draw a purple milkshake!" replies Johnny. Without hesitation, the Principal picks up the phone and calls his parents.
Johnny's parents arrive, and without explaining why, Mr Johnson informs them he is to be expelled. They take him home, and confused, ask Johnny what he did.
"All I did was draw a purple milkshake"
Stunned, his parents begin packing his things. Within minutes, poor Johnny is homeless.
Later that night, a local sherriff is doing his rounds when he finds a haggered young boy in the streets. Sherriff Jeffrey asks young Johnny what he's doing on the streets at such an hour.
"Well sir, all I did was draw a purple milkshake, and then the teacher sent me out, and then the principa-" the Sherriff interrupts. "A purple milkshake?"
The Sherriff promptly handcuffs the poor young lad, no questions asked.
Johnny is then sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Time has passed, and Johnny is now 28, and being released from prison.
He is dropped off not far from the prison, and then proceeds to wait for a bus at a nearby shelter.
There he finds a little old lady, sitting on the seat, also waiting for the bus. They exchange formalities, before Johnny sits down, deciding to keep himself quiet. Curiousity gets the better of the lady though, and she asks where he's headed.
"I'm not sure. I've just been released from jail you see" says Johnny. Not phased at all, the lady asks what he did.
"That's the worst part. From memory, all I did was draw a purple milkshake in school one day. Then I was expelled, my parents kicked me out, then the Sherriff arrested me".
Johnny has noticed a small smirk has crossed the lady's face. "The purple milkshake, ahhh," she sighs.
"You know somethin' about it?"
She says nothing more, and hands him a small card with a name on it, then points to a house just a few hundred metres away.
Relieved and also nervous that he may finally learn his fate - Johnny hops up and begins to bound across the street.
He is then hit by a bus.
