Armed Escort
I went to a girls only school, but right next door was the boys school, separated from us by about 200m and a three foot high wall....oh, and big black fuck-off wrought iron gates in the middle of the three foot high wall. Nearly all the boys were in some kind of cadets thing or other, RAF, Navy, all the rest. They used to have to do training every Friday, and it was used as an excuse to give the boys ranks so they could legitimately boss each other around.

Most of my friends were in the RAF. They were also a year younger than me, so while I was doing A-levels and had a lot of free slots in my timetable I could easily wander over and hang out in the RAF mess. They did a lot of bugger-all in there, mainly just played Mao which I'd join in with. Then one of the teachers would walk by and tell me off for being there

"Oi, come on now, no girls allowed in the mess"
"Um, I'm not a girl sir, I'm just an overly-talkative drinks machine..."

One day, someone had brought in a load of toy lightsabres. Brilliant - having nothing better to do, we started having full scale lightsabres battles, two on two in the mess. We looked out of the window, and realised all the 12 and 13 year olds were playing football outside. We gathered at the door to the playground, then suddenly all burst out and had more lightsabre battles in the middle of the football game, to the bewilderment of the youngsters. Then I got caught for being female again and was told to go back to my own school.

"But she might get captured sir!"

Duly, the boys with lightsabres surrounded me, and I made my way back to the girls' school with an armed escort of wannabe jedi RAF pilots, occaisionally stopping to break out into more battles. I lightsabred my way all the way back to the sixth form common room!
( Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 0:20, Reply)