The Toadstool Trap
Language: en
My best friend saw a TikTok claiming that eating a specific type of poisonous mushroom would let you see the answer key during the SATs. She spent a fortune buying them to slice up like sashimi. I warned her that she’d just end up dead or in the ER. Out of fear, she threw them away. But after the exams, a classmate bragged that he’d eaten the mushrooms, hallucinated the math answers, and was guaranteed a perfect score. When the results came out, he got into MIT. My best friend missed the cutoff for her dream school by a single point. At my graduation party, she snapped. She stabbed me…