Random school memories

I recall that combining the flowers off of a bottlebrush tree with straight pins and a straw made for an excellent sneak weapon.
 
 
 
Just push the pin through the base of an individual flower to create a nice arrow with "feathers" then insert into the straw and *POOF*
 
They fly really well.

Earning money drawing Grendizer (Japanese Mecha robot) for other kids.
 
Earning money AND protection from the older kids in school drawing Eddie the Head and stuff from their favorite album covers for them.
 
Running away from school and going to the hospital because my knees hurted so bad.
 
The funeral home right in front of the grade school playground.
 
Being sent to the psychologist because of my morbid drawings.
 
Skipping class and smoking cigarettes in the cemetery next to the high school.
 
Skipping class and smoking cigarettes behind the little chapel in front of the high school.
 
Skipping class and watching Star Trek 4, smoking cigarettes in the recreation room in the nearby college. With older girls... :P
 
Skipping every class except art and music.
 
Being a socially successful outcast. Being the only kid in school w/ his own locker. 
 
Having my pic in the prom album 3 years in a row w/o ever reaching my own prom (in the standard school system).
 
Having my art teacher give me an A but refusing to put my drawings on display due to their morbid nature.
 
"Borrowing" mopeds in the school parking. Damaging borrowed mopeds and making a new sworn enemy.
 
Wanting a real guitar and a proper amp.

• The whole school coming out to watch a UFO (weather balloon).
• The physics teacher having the whole class run up and down three flights of stairs to demonstrate the difference between potential and kinimatic energy.
• The painful crack of the physic teacher's pipe on your skull if you were not paying attention.
• Making an "Organ" as a physics project. - A transistor oscellator and stylus & keyboard like a stylophone. My first synth.

 
 

Being shaken by my 6th grade principal because I didn't review the weekly school "agenda" with her before the class meeting (I was president of the 6th grade).
 
Riding my cool 10 speed Puegot bike off campus at noon to get lunch at the nearby Foster Freeze without anyone knowing I was gone (that was when I was Safety Captain).
 
Giving a report in 4th grade when I had a terrible cold and not having anything to wipe my runny nose with except my hands.  After class, many class mates pretended they were me by rubbing their noses and wiping it on their pants.  The cruelty of it all!
 
Pretending to fight my best friend right outside the playground (6th grade) just to see how many kids would run over to watch.  Most of them did!
 
Learning that playing drums in a band was really cool.

 Our school lunch room utensils seem much like yours Sharke, and that strikes me as odd because you were in the UK right? Although I don't remember the odd glass.I remember we had a bunch of wheeler dealers trying to trade their green beans for your pizza at lunch. It seemed like there was always a hustle going on.
 
 I remember me and another friend put on a few shows for the class. In one we did a magic show, in another we used stretchy pants and tops and stuffed them so we looked fat  like sumo wrestlers. We were larger around than we were tall. It was similar to the Blues Brothers only bigger. It would have been like the Blues Brothers 100lbs over weight. You could pull off some pretty cool moves dressed like that, it was hard to get hurt with all of that padding. 
 
  I remember me and another friend who liked to draw always drawing. I had people ask me for the pics but I usually threw them all away. It was just a way to pass the time. It got to be fun. we would pick out a girl in class and draw her with a big pig nose and ears. We drew cars and jets and monsters, you name it. My friend invented a way to draw a comic book character together without the other person knowing what you drew. One would draw the head and fold the page over with a neck line, then one would draw the torso and arm fold the paper over and leave lines for the legs which the other person drew. When it was all done we opened up the paper. You might end up with a person who was shirtless and hairy, had a head similar to Mickey Mouse and legs like a duck..you just never knew.

Oooo...  Just remembered a fun Junior High trick.  In an electrical shop class you put the tip of a cold soldering gun into one of those big cans of flux then, right before everyone was told to go back into the classroom area, you plug in the soldering gun and head back to class.  In about 5-10 minutes the tip heated up and this wonderful god-awful cloud of smoke was created in the shop area.  Followed by a stern talking to the class by the teacher after he ran out there to see what was going on (naturally no one confessed or tattled on whoever did it THAT time  ).

I lent a friend my copy of Sgt Peppers.
 
On the way home on the school bus, the record slid out of the sleeve and rolled down the centre aisle. I was mortified!!
 
 

Mike Reynolds hitting me over the back of the head with a wooden cosh in technical drawing...
 
..he also stabbed 'Beaky' Topham in between the shoulder blades with a compass/divider...
 
..and threw a chair at Mrs Mallelieu...
 
..he may have had issues...

I'll never forget the prom:

I was, admittedly, a giant jackass at school. At age 10 I had a math teacher called Mrs Harrison who loathed and detested me because I disrupted every single lesson with clownery and never did any work. She spent the whole year telling me I was a born failure.

At the end of the year, we had a math exam. On the day when the results came in, she came into class looking like someone who was about to deliver some very bad news. So we started pressing her to reveal the results. Being a jackass, I led the chorus with "How'd I do? How'd I do?" and banging on my desk.

She got redder and redder and the veins in her forehead looked like they were going to explode. "YOU, JAMES," she calmly explained, "CAME TOP. TOP OF THE YEAR IN FACT."

I'm afraid I didn't take the news very well. I think dancing was involved.