this is the story of three boys three boys who might have been in your school perhaps even in your grade even your friends and what happened to them might have happened to you you see they had a plan a plan to do something but they didn't stop to think what the consequences of that plan might be and now they're in trouble real trouble jimmie is just plain scared guy what  was going to happen to us now are there are probably kick in south school activities for a month but i don't care if they do this is going to hurt my mother and dad are were you always worry about your mother and dad for they aren't going to think you deserve another chance you planned this prank it was all your idea how do you think about your fine idea now and you jimmy how do you feel although you didn't plan it you really didn't give any thought to how it might turn out to you just seemed fun and a good idea at the time but you did join him but now you could have stopped it you knew it was wrong and you knew where it had a good chance of leading then why did you do it i knew it was wrong i knew we shouldn't do it and i tried to tell them but they said i was  and after all they're my friends and sometimes you have to do some things for friends that you don't like to do why did you do it jimmy well frank said he wanted to do it he said it sure would be funny and he was right it was awful funny for a while isn't any fun now though how about you frank what do you have to say so far as i'm concerned you can thank old man craft he deserves something making me stay and goes he caught me  on paper wads i wasn't the only one made me miss the ball game too but i got even with him and i still don't care you don't care frank well at least you didn't care what happened to mr kraft that day he kept  after school in fact you thought of lots worse things to do to him than the plan you suggested to jimmy and deal remember how you planned it you and jimmy it wasn't hard to convince him he thought it would be a  joke on mr kraft and remember how dale home back and didn't think it was such a good idea but how you and jimmy persuaded him and how he came along with you just because he was your friend and remember how you went to the drugstore and bought the stuff and then you went down in jimmy's basement and you try just a little bit of it just to see how it smelled the harder it was to keep your eyes off that waste paper basket where you had decided to play your trick remember how you felt them remember frank boy it won't be long now this is all schools really going to see something here will stink things up around here this will get even with all craft are i sure will be funny i wonder tales right though i wonder if we might hurt something i wonder if that stuff might blow up now we tried it maybe be better if we didn't do it today maybe we ought to wait a little bit nope can't do that jimmy and they would think i was scared if i backed out now i'll just have to go through with it remember how you felt at the jimmy i can hardly wait till frank gets the stuff go on i'll bet this all wrong is going to smell worse than ever smell before frank's always thinking up things to do wonder why i never have any good ideas yes sure that you're going to be funny when i'm in craft gets away for that and he'll remember what you were thinking we shouldn't do it were you shouldn't i know i was right something might happen ryan start a fire somebody might get hurt and it would be all my fault i should have stopped it i should have made frank give up the idea i wonder if i guess there's nothing i can do about it now if each of you had stopped to think you would have given the whole thing up but you didn't you waited until mr kraft dismissed class then you quickly put the sack of chemicals into the waste paper basket it worked just the way you thought it would except you used much more of the stuff this time than when you tried it out in jimmy's basement no wonder everyone but the school was on fire wonder the whole thing's building was almost like a mighty mare to you even know yasna chemicals worked all right but not quite the way you thought they would the school fire bell broke up the important dress rehearsal for the class  hadn't counted on that the city fire department was called out you hadn't counted on that and the fumes so bad they made some of your classmates sick you hadn't counted on the fumes at all classes and part of the school had to be let out because of the fumes you know how you felt them but it was too late that damage was done your it was exciting for a little while but the result of your little prank well let's see the classroom was so badly damaged that it has to be completely redecorated painting costs money and since classes had to be dismissed time was lost time which had to be made up not only by you but by all your classmates but most of all there was the feeling you had when you saw the damage you had done the feeling changed from from to fear and finally to shame and then there were the eyes that saw you come out of the classroom running away from what you had done there were the lips that told of what the eyes had seen and there were the ears that heard then there were the looks and the thoughts of your classmates when they learned that you were to blame for all this and finally there was the note that brought you to the principal's office for god's sake they all want to quit worrying about it surely that must say we're not the only ones what about those guys drawing sheree what about the time when all those kids broke the windows here in the car the desk miss miss room the library books that were marked out last week were not the only wanted done stuff around here she were if you don't think that excuse what do you think about it now and what about you you who have launched this film if you had been in the situation at the beginning would you have stopped to think about the damage you might cause to other people's property  you think was the real reason frank acted as he did that would you have done if you had been jimmy do you think dale would have preferred not to join frank and jimmie why not do you think