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ThePeter
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3/10/2009 11:17:30 AM

GrumpyGOP
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"Color me intrigued. Please explain said smuggling operation, how you were caught, etc.."


Normally I wouldn't drag a thread back up to answer a question that was asked more than a week ago, but I like talking about myself and am bored.

We followed the herd mentality -- if we were in a large enough group of people, administration would be less likely to pick us out. At first that meant running like hell out of class, waiting as near to the parking lot as we could, and then diving in with the seniors once they had assembled in their groups and started moving for the parking lot. The same basic principle worked sometimes on the return trip; if it didn't, we split up and took various indirect routes back to campus.As more people wanted to go with us, we were less dependent on seniors for cover. Nobody paid too much attention to a large mass of people heading for the parking lot.

I got caught because I was a good foot taller than everybody in the crowd. Zebra strikes don't work if you're head and shoulders taller than all the other zebras. I know which teacher turned me in -- she was the only one with a class along the route, and she was the only teacher I had who knew my face and didn't like me.

First class after lunch, I got called up on the intercom. Most of the people applauded or otherwise expressed their support. Even the teacher sketched a little salute. The vice principal in charge of the interrogation was universally feared by everyone, not just suburban white kids with college hopes and overbearing parents.

She grilled me for the rest of the day, two periods. A lot of that time was her leaving me to stew in my own fear, hoping the anticipation would crack me. Finally she came in and said, "Mr. Booth, who were the other students that were seen with you?"

"I don't really know who any of them are. I just met them today because I needed a ride." This was a lie. They were some of my best friends, and we took my car.

"You've already got twenty days lunch suspension. Maybe sixty would jog your memory."

Sixty days eating cafeteria food in a room full of angry people was not appealing. Especially not in silence; as this post makes obvious, I like to talk. "I can't help you. I think one of their names might have started with a consonant, like a B or a K or something."

This did not please her. "Maybe the rest of the year would jog your memory."

"OK, OK, I'll tell you everything I know. I'm pretty sure their names had vowels. Some, more than one."

"Get the hell out of my office and report to Ms. So-and-so for lunch, starting tomorrow and ending sometime when you're a senior."

Two days later, a freshman who I'd never met before stopped me outside of the library. "Hey, are you that kid who got lunch detention until graduation?"

I didn't correct him on the duration, but said that I was, indeed, that kid. He stuck out his hand and said, "You the man."

My life has pretty much been downhill from that one moment.

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[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 11:54 PM. Reason : ]

3/15/2009 11:53:40 PM

Specter
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nice

3/16/2009 1:51:25 AM

BridgetSPK
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I love the way admins call it a privilege. Cafeteria seats a couple hundred heads max, and the school's got over two thousand students...hmmm...

3/16/2009 2:45:33 AM

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