Everyone gets at least a little excited when school starts.. Today was the first day of my nephew starting the third grade.. He hates school and I can understand it, I really didn't like school at all at least until I got into high school, things changed for me then.. But something I never told anyone about my very first day of school, that very first day of kindergarten.. I rode to school with my dad, and I think my older brother as well but for sure I went with dad.. He was the business and typing teacher there in the high school.. I can't remember much about that day but one thing I do remember was he took me to his room there and told me when I hear the first bell ring to go to the grade school and then school would start.. Well he went to the teachers lounge and .. did whatever they do, likely smoke like a house on fire calm the nerves for putting up with everyones house apes... But there I was waiting for the bell to ring doing whatever I was doing when suddenly there was a buzzing sound.. Did he mean the buzz or the ring??? That wasn't a ring, or at least not a ring that I've ever heard so I ignored it.. It then buzzed again a short time later.. Was this the one?? No.. Don't think so anyway.. A short time later my dad is at the door of his room.. Didn't you hear the bell?? Bell?? What bell?? I heard a buzz... hffhdhdh... So he walks me over to the kindergarten room and gets me excused for being tardy on my very first day of school... That would be the last time I would be tardy.. But not the last time I would be late.. When I was a junior in High school I would go to yet another band clinic.. Why the top seats had to go and not the lower seats I had no idea.. I had been going to these since I was in seventh grade, in fact there was no one else went in seventh grade before, why I had to go I had no idea.. But when I was a junior that year it wasn't at the home school for the first time in five or six years.. It was instead in a town called Potter and we went ... Who's staying for lunch.. I really didn't want to stay for lunch so a few of us went downtown to a bar.. The walk to the place was a ten minute one, we got there ordered what we wanted and sat down got to play some pool, I played the pinball machine.. Played a game of pool.. Hey, what time is it?? You know I wore a watch back in the day, I knew when we had to be back at the school and I was done eating but wasn't done playing foosball.. Nobody leaves a game of foosball undecided it was us two against those two.. And we were likely losing but that's not the point.. Twelve fifty five... Five minutes to get to the school, if we run we could make it.. Nobody wants to run, I didn't feel like running.. Kurt didn't even care, Cliff was enjoying himself too much.. So as we get done someone said hey what time is it.. Quarter after one... Ooops we're gonna be a little late... We rush to get to the school and you know, it took ten minutes to get to the bar with us rushing to get there.. We weren't in that great of a hurry to get back.. We got in the gym and what I remember most was we walked in and all the other kids from my school watched us walk in.. Our music teacher was there, he glared at us but never said a single word to any of us.. Why?? because of who was in the group.. There was me, me alone would likely have been expelled from school for a day or two.. Then there was Cliff.. Cliff was a good kid, never got into trouble but loved to have a good time.. Very trustworthy... Kurt was thought to be an angel as well although I had heard otherwise we were fairly good friends.. Then there was Kent.. Kent was known around the school as the good guy.. There was never to be any punishment from this stunt but there would be a change from this adventure.. No one was allowed to leave the school where clinics were being held, clinics or contests of any kind.. After that event.. Actually it would start the next year because we left the school at contest time for lunch but because it was contest we had to get back on time..
Badge Henry
(P.S. contest was MAC music contest as well as the district but that was easy to have to stay for.. It was at a college..)
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