M
r. Madden had finished explaining the safety guidelines of the hand drill in Shop
class when Bobby pipes up and says "You mean I don't do this?" as he revs it up and proceeds to run the drill
all the way through his leg. No doubt Madden was having a major panic attack but the rest of us knew...
Bobby had a wooden leg.
S
moking in the boys room was indeed a major daily ritual. A lookout was posted
at the door for any teacher who might ackwardly stumble in as we socialized, doing what boys do, normally
swearing and daring, fighting and smoking our cigarettes, taking pride in "not getting caught". The teachers,
on the other hand, seemed inclined to bust up our little social gathering. It happened one day when Mr. Taylor
decided it was his turn to patrol the restroom, he spun Bobby around (who was urinating) and it goes without
saying... Taylor got his pants wet.
"Fred George" or
"The Boy with Green Hair"
F
reddie was by far the strangest person I ever knew. He was certainly one of a kind. He tried to set trends
which (fortunately) never cought on. He comes in to school with this green hair which was kinda cool I guess but
as the day wore on, the food coloring he used to dye his hair with began to run and as he wiped it off it left a green
tint on his face. Mr. Dubik says, "Boy whats wrong with you?", and Freddie says, "Gee I dunno Coach, Musta ben
the school lunch".
"Vocational School Bus" or
"What were they thinking?"
Y
ou would think that the people in authority within an Educational System would show some common sense in their decisions. What idiot figured Southern and Fairdale could ride on the same bus and get along? I won't even talk about Moore because Southern feels a kinship to them, or did back then. But to put Fairdale on a bus and send them to Southern to get us was total stupidity.
The very first day, Southern took control of the bus and I don't think the fighting started till the second week. Moore was intimidated early and stopped rideing but Fairdale had to be convinced. A few got their heads put through the glass windows and others got black eyes or simple bleeding.
Mr. Allen was hostle with us but we deserved it. I loved it when he would take off his tie before the beatings commenced. We all promised to be good (yeah right) and then proceeded to beat up Fairdale for telling on us.
When Fairdale quit rideing, we begain beating up on each other. Boys will be boys. We broke several windows and tore out a few seats. Billy Miller went nuts one day as the group surrounded him to yank his pants off. We would give the pants to the female bus driver, "Miss Beverly" and the embarassment of having to get them back clad only in underware was too much. Well Billy wasn't going to get got(get got?? Our expression for duh getting got.) so he breaks this bottle and starts waving it fearcely at us. Joe Monroe wraps a coat around his arm for protection while others sneak up behind him and as Joe leaps at Billy, we nail him. "Oh Miss Beverly, Billy seems to have lost his pants. Will you hold them for him?"
