something I did and forgot about
I was the believable decoy for something complicated and very unkind as a practical joke.

Every class or course has a swot, who makes up for lack of natural grasp of a subject and a social life By working in the library, staying late......
He was actually a nice guy, but he had victim stamped all over.

Do you know how you talk about things over beer and then they evaporate as you walk through the pub door? Some don`t, especially if you have a slight bully amongst you and he co-ordinated it.
this is a long time ago, and radio inventory tags on items were very new and just were a one size something that hoots in the exit radio field, no Id`s or anything fancy

At college you saved your money to spend on beer fags, food and other luxuries, and only bought the really useful textbooks, so sometimes you had to use the library. Fine, bars open, books away, run, oops book in case, "whe-oo whee-oo" "ere theres a metal strip in these.

Master plan, cut strip from book, smuggle out , divert swot, take habitual jacket thing, unpick seam, insert, close. I was swaotty enough to engage, and was the 5 minute diversion during a lab, for the pick and stitch. " the alarms keep going off whenever I leave the library, brilliant fun "Oh perhaps its the spacng on the metal zip on my jacket ?" .

This carried on for a week or two, the guilty bit was then he stopped mentioning it, we forgot. So for nearly a whole semester this poor sod who lived in the library and came out to use use the loos and cafe was getting maybe 5 alarms a day. Suddenly the penny dropped and one of us told him , it was "you complete rotters" IKYN.
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