Things Are Often Not As They Seem

[John81]

During recess we used to play cops and rOBbers, cowboys and Indians, war, holding our fingers like guns and making shooting sounds. Today they expel children from school for such play and they are marked as a potential danger; or worse.

[Covenanter]

Lovely story, with a moral! I wonder how much the official solution cost, compared with buying enough crayons!

 

While I never got into trouble for it, my favourite drawing implement was black pencil - because I wanted detail. I couldn't get on with charcoal or brush because they were so imprecise. In WWII I drew on anything white - envelopes, food & cigarette packets, etc.

[Doc Flay]

My father told me when he was in school, they had a project to cut out paper dolls. The instructions were "just follow the line" well that worked good until he got to the neck line of the dress and accidentally cut off the doll's head. The teachers response was not to call a psychoanalyst  but to hall off and smack him right across the face.

[John81]

No wonder he remembers that!

[Covenanter]

We noticed our table cloth had been cut - very neatly along the pattern lines. One of our boys, & a pair of scissors.

[Salyan]

We noticed our table cloth had been cut - very neatly along the pattern lines. One of our boys, & a pair of scissors.

 

Hahaha.... uh oh. 

[Anon]

I grew up with a "W" last name. Hated it.

Married a "V".

Sigh.

:-)

[Salyan]

Haha... I'm lucky. A.

[DaveW]

Our first son loses out first name or last: Z W.

We didn't really think that one through did we??????

[John81]

These days I'm sure one could find a lawyer seriously willing to file alphabetical name discrimination charges against a school and sue them for some huge sum.  

[Salyan]

Oh, could you imagine the policies and procedures that would have to be written to prevent against any such thing happening again!

[John81]

A government bureaucrats dream come true!

[Cliff Hanger]

I grew up with a "W" last name. Hated it.

Married a "V".

Sigh.

:-)

 

Haha. Well at least you're moving up!