Bright futures my arse!
During year 10 our school decided that taking the whole year group to a ´careers fair' would be a productive use of our time. We didn't concentrate so much on the offers of free career advice, more on the offers of ´free´ stuff.

To start with it was who could get the most pens/career advice sheets but we quickly got bored; the game evolved to ´if you can take it without being noticed it counts as free´.

The chef wandered off for a break and when he returned his stall had been stripped, not just of the chocolate and wafer things he had left out on the table, but the massive (about twice the size of a football) bag of chocolate, that was presumably his supply for the whole several day event, and his hat also were gone.

There was a stall that had a coconut, I took it once, however my bag was so bulging with ´freebies´ that the handle broke, spilling stuff everywhere- my attempts at looking subtle while a coconut rolled off along the floor weren't entirely successful. It wasnt long bofore the coconut had once again ´gone missing´, this time safely tucked into my jacket.

I still don't know why marmalade would be an incentive to follow a particular career path, but a jar ended up in someone else's bag; that slightly backfired when the lid fell off resulting in a rather sticky bag.

The bus journey back to school was reminiscent of a storm with the amounts of paper/pens/pencils/chocolate flying- the teacher soon gave up his attempts at controlling us and just ducked down to try to avoid being hit.

The best part of it was the next day when we all got called to a special assembly with the head. We were all braced for a bollocking and nobody was surprised when he starting off by saying we had been called down in relation to our conduct at the event the day before, we were however somewhat surprised when he congratulated us on our excellent behaviour. Im still not entirely sure at what level it was decided not to mention the stripping of anything not nailed in place but no one felt it would be a good idea let on what our behaviour was really like.
(madsporkmurderer, Thu 8 Nov 2007, 17:42, Reply)