Silly school boys
Teenage students have a page on their records that says this is how they tried to prove they were invincible. Yes we have them; but I have not seen my own. I have one memory that stands out though. I went to a fairly large school with about 1500 full time students. The cafeteria space was too small for such a large number of pupils so we had rotating lunch periods. And there was the inevitable moment where you had to return to your class from lunch while other students were in study. We were two or three of us, one day. We took a shortcut up the back stairwell along by the classrooms used by the Phys.Ed department and down to our locker area. And we did what teenage boys do. We knocked on the door of a class in session. The first couple of times you get away with it. But teachers are not born stupid and eventually we knocked on the door and the teacher opened it with us standing there. No place to run and no place to hide we were caught and we were brought to the principal’s office. A chance for someone to explain to us that even at our advanced age we still had to follow the rules. The penalty was minor. I think I had to make an apology to the teacher period. But it did teach me that I was neither invisible nor invincible. An important lesson to learn when you go to school. And I survived obviously. I was never again caught for such a stupid action. In other words I learned a lesson.
