Two Math wizards at MIT take a course on crypto currency and form a study group. During their numerous hours in the library discussing monetary theory, they begin to fall in love. On weekends, they visit Cambridge pubs to participate in quiz night, specifically when the subject matter is topology. They become so intimate with each other, that they share their prescriptions; one is taking Adderall, the other is ingesting Wellbutrin, and after a week of co-imbibing they both suffer seizures (a side effect of mixing the medications) while erasing a chalk board. …

Eleanor is a 27 yo rising artist in her community. As a young college student her talent as a painter was easily recognized and indeed, she paid for her college with earnings from her oil paintings. Most of the projects ran to the abstract. Lately, her work has become quite “bizarre” according to her family; instead of sharp lines/boundaries, her oeuvre is currently described as smears. …

John is a senior in high school who just earned his last badge to become an Eagle Scout. As a reward, the other scouts invite him to a jamboree where they plan to stay out in the woods for a week. On the first night, John learns that another scout brought a bottle of rum and says to himself, “what the heck”, I think I will have a few drinks around the fire. Unbeknownst to them, the cheerleader team had also planned to camp out nearby that evening , and the lead Eagle prompts the others to visit the cheering squad. What could possibly go wrong between such wonderful sets of kids? …

Ken is a senior in high school who some would argue has everything. His parents are loaded and gave him a Porsche 911S on his 16th birthday. He is a gifted athlete and has lettered in non-contact sports, golf, tennis, track and even pitches for his school team. Unfortunately, he is also known as having a certain “bouquet” about him – you can smell him coming a mile away. Ken falls madly in love with the head cheerleader, appropriately named Barbie, and ultimately asks her out on a date. He proposes seeing a remake of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, where “Meat Loaf sings Bat Out of Hell”, but Barbie insists on going to a Taylor Swift concert…

35 yo female CEO of a fortune 500 company is known as a hard charging, can-do individual, capable of bringing significant revenue to her shareholders. She graduated summa at an IVY league school, then attended MIT for her business degree and developed AI technology before it came into vogue. She is married to a neurosurgeon, chief resident and has two children, ages 7 and 5. The couple is invited to a Caribbean Island owned by a friend and they gladly accept, wishing to create their third love child. …

22 yo earns his Psychology B.A. then takes a construction job driving a forklift. His girlfriend of two years recently broke off their engagement, caving to parental pressure. His crew boss insists on no earbuds on the job; the work is too dangerous to risk being distracted by music. Our budding psychologists fails to follow this instruction and pops in his AirPods whenever he jumps into the forklift cab. His goal is to listen to Adele’s “Send my Love (To your New Lover)” at high volume, memorizing it so that he can head over to his ex-girlfriend’s house and “serenade” her….

16 yo preparing for her first prom notices large zits on one cheek, some close to her right orbital margin. Mortified, she applies heavy make-up, but does not pop the offending blemish. (Her mother had warned her about scaring, or worse, if she squeezed a pimple.) She attends the prom but did not have a good time (the boy was rude, picked her up late and made fun of her heavy make-up, and to cap it all off, they went to the wrong after party.) A week after the prom …

Freddy Prince, the great lead singer of Queen, composed “A Bohemian Rhapsody”, one of the most notoriously challenging songs for any vocalist. Sally Bowles was an 18 yo aspiring opera singer whose teacher always remarked that Montseratt Caballé destroyed her career as a classical operatic soprano when she joined Freddy in the duet of Barcelona at the 1992 to Olympics in the Catalan capital. (Not true - her teacher was jealous of Caballé). Sally does love opera, but she also enjoys performing gigs with friends at nightclubs where she becomes known for her rendition of a wild “Rhapsody”.

One of the oldest tricks in baseball is for the catcher to steal the ball from the hitter when they have two strikes. The catcher lunges forward as the fastball approaches the plate and the momentary forward movement by the catcher is caught by the hitter’s peripheral vision, making the hitter hesitate to swing the bat. The umpire calls a strike and the batter is out. This trick is usually deployed when the batter is sitting deep in the batter’s box and there is tension in the game: late inning, multiple men on base and a hit by the batter will score runs resulting in a win for the batting team. Clearly, the success of the catcher’s trick is predicated on the batter not swinging. If the batter swings, the lunging catcher may be struck on the side of the face/head by the batter. Yogi Berra, the Hall of Fame catcher of the 1950-1960’s Yankees, was notorious for pulling off this trick.