Lisa asks Did I ever get in trouble in School?
Did I get in trouble at school? Not until 4th grade,
unless you count the time shortly after I began school that I decided I didn’t like
school and walked home. Lloyd Hope, my classmate in grades 1-12 likes to tell
of a time he was sleeping over at my house. We had to stay after school. When
my dad noticed we were home late he said “You boys were late tonight.” I said
“we had to stay after school for something we didn’t do” “O” he said “what was
that?” I said “we had to stay after for not doing our arithmetic.” Dad laughed.
I have no memory of this and have only Lloyd’s word that it is true.
“Ever” should be “always” as
in I was always in trouble...nothing very serious just persistently annoying to
my teachers. One of my elementary teachers made the mistake of getting in a
power struggle with me about doing math problems. She made me stay after to do
them, which I still didn’t do and she was trapped there with me. There was an
upside for me, too. Much of the evening chores would be done by the time I
finally got home.
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