There are the normal kids. Then there are the cool kids. Then there’s Ricky.

The normal kids, they pay attention in school. The cool kids, they wear their earbuds and their hoodie sweatshirts, and they listen to music all through the day while pretending to be taking notes.

Ricky? He wears his Sennheiser Bluetooth Headphones right there, right out in the open, unapologetically bobbing his head back and forth to the beat of a song.

And when Mr. Sanderson – Mr. Stick-in-the-Mud Sanderson, Mr. “Kids these days” Sanderson – when he says to Ricky, “Ricky, take off those headphones right now,” Ricky just says back, “Yo, Sand-blaster, what’s the big deal? These headphones got no wire. How could I be listening to anything?”

But Sanderson, for all his old-timer-ness, he’s no idiot. He says, “Ricky, I may be pushing sixty-five, but don’t think I haven’t heard of bluetooth technology.” And then he shoots Ricky this menacing scowl. Well, that would be enough for a normal or a cool kid to just rip those headphones off, fold them up, and put them away.

But this isn’t just a normal kid. It’s not even just a cool kid. It’s Ricky we’re talking about, so he just leaves the headphones on. In fact, he gets a phone call, and he takes it! He’s just sitting there in front of Sanderson talking through the Headphones’ invisible microphone, enjoying its high-performance sound quality for clear conversations. And Sanderson, he turns bright red, and he says, “You hang up that phone this instant young man, or I swear, I will-”

But Ricky just holds up a finger to shush the old man, and then he says, “Hang on,” to whoever he’s talking to, “I gotta deal with something.” He pulls out a piece of paper from his pocket and tosses it to Sanderson. “Doctor’s note,” he says.

And sure enough it is! It says Ricky needs to wear headphones! For undisclosed medical reasons! And the crazy thing is, it isn’t forged! It’s real! Well, not that Ricky suffers from undisclosed medical conditions. But the note itself is definitely written by a real doctor! Because, when it comes to Ricky, even the doctors think he’s too cool for school.

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