May Day Protests, teenaged punkery etc...
This little stunt bit me on the arse so bad...

As a 15 year old goth kid who hated school, I found the May Day protests a valid enough excuse to bunk off. I changed out of my uniform in the toilets, got the bus to Oxford Street and met up with some very hot university students at the station who I immediately bonded with. After swigging from a vodka bottle, smoking a copious amount of weed and general tomfoolery...I decided I had better get home at a reasonable time or the folks would know I hadn't gone to school.

Of course, I didn't have enough cash for the trains and the buses had stopped due to the still ongoing protest. After about an hour of trying to get home and failing I finally called my Dad to come get me on the train, confessing where I was.

The old man bellowed down the phone that they "bloody knew" -they had already seen me on the television! They had spotted my black and pink hair and trademark jacket a few hours before and had been trying to angrily call my mobile to have a go at me. No amount of apologizing could get my dad in a better mood to come and get me, so I, totally stoned almost passed out on a bench trying to prepare for Dad's wrath to come.

After that a homeless person tried to beat me up for "stealing his bench" and a do-gooder attempted to take away the safety pins on my jacket because I "looked like a self harmer"

Dad eventually turned up with as face like thunder, hollering at me in the street , and me still having not gotten the weed and vodka out of my system, rambling and giggling like a manic 5 year old. It didn't go down well as I was practically dragged unto the train.

When I got home Mum was a nightmare. Besides the banshee-like screaming and plate going smashed, I got the playstation, my only real mate at the time locked up for ages but I didn't care because the munchies had kicked in and all I wanted was food. I will never forget the look on my Mum's face when I interrupted her outraged lecture with a slurred "what's for dinner?"

Approximately an extra two hours shouting was earned from that.

That was about 5 years ago and I'm still being reminded of that day off I took. If I've learned anything from this, it's that if you're somewhere you shouldn't be and TV cameras are liable to be around...it's best not to have unmistakable pink hair.
(trippeh, Fri 22 Feb 2008, 17:01, 3 replies)

That's not karma
that's justifiable punishment.

"Oh woe is me - I bunked off school, smoked weed and drank vodka and they took my playstation away."
(MrC. Having the most boring username on b3ta since 2004, Fri 22 Feb 2008, 17:05, closed)

i have to agree
and a loss of playstation not bad for being caught on tv pissed n stoned amongst a load of people who read no logo then decided they could change the world by smashing up mcdonalds
(biscuitracer, Fri 22 Feb 2008, 18:47, closed)

lol
I think they just got fed up of shouting at me...I wasn't moaning about the Playstation being confiscated I meant the fact that i thought I could get away with it without them finding out but there was my face on TV... That's karma :S besides, Mum nearly ripped my lip ring off at one point so the playstation going walkies wasn't the only reprocussion! :S

Smashing up Macdonald's isn't good I agree...I just didn't like school very much and wanted to go anywhere else for the day...sort of a last minute bad idea!
(trippeh, Fri 22 Feb 2008, 19:56, closed)