Reputation
And now for a story that happened to me instead of others at my school. When I was at school, I was well behaved. As in I was paranoid about breaking the rules... or rather I was paranoid about being caught breaking the rules, I was terrified about getting told off. It's a habit that continues into adulthood though I'm getting much better at telling people to fuck off where necessary.

If you're 'good', then the odds are high that you're not one of the cool kids, and I wasn't. Not actively bullied but just not accepted really. I had some good friends, but none of us in the elite circles. I got excellent grades, did my homework on time and was generally a good pupil.

What is surprising is the power than this reputation can give you. While I might have been well behaved and decent most of the time... this didn't mean that I wasn't a little shite when I had reason to be. If you don't do it too often and lie with a good poker face you can get away with murder*. And if you get caught... apologise and look guilt stricken. So during my time at school, I got away scot free with many things. A few examples...

Calling a teacher a bitch to her face - in my defence, she was. Bluffed it by pretending I'd asked "Which?"
Punching a kid -hard- who was insulting me in the face in front of several witnesses - my phony defence was that he had a snowball in his hand and I was trying to knock it out of his hand.
Letting off a truly vile fart, loudly, in the middle of a class. During the staging of a scene from MacBeth - the stench was worthy of an entire QoTW on its own. Everyone was impressed except the girl who sat next to me, because I pinned it on her.

I am fully aware that at times I was a nasty little shit at school :) I've grown up since then, and realised just how much of a prick I could be, and have tried to change. With some success... I hope.

But it did teach me the lesson that if you're innocent 99% of the time and look it, it is often trivial to get away with the 1% where you're guilty as sin.

*Note, this technique will not actually let you get away with murder**
**Unless you are very very good at it
(calamarain just invented dehydrated water, Thu 29 Jan 2009, 17:14, 5 replies)

HA
i got away with that stuff too, except the last one cos girls dont fart y'kno?. punchin a guy in the face was ace and the head just told me not to do it again as the guy was an utter shit anyway.
(fernbrittonsexcessskin will give a shit later, Thu 29 Jan 2009, 19:37, closed)

Query
Is it good that you got away with that stuff? I don't think it is - I certainly deserved a good bollocking for a lot of the stuff I did, I just never got it because I was a proficient liar/actor.
(calamarain just invented dehydrated water, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 0:16, closed)

i think it was sort of
The guy bullied me for years for no reason and he never did it again after that and he genuinly was such a nasty person. I deserved to be put on report right enough but i'm very glad the head was extremely leanient (SP?)
(fernbrittonsexcessskin will give a shit later, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 12:55, closed)

I committed 2 offences where this applied.
Graffiti'ing the toilets, and taking pissy weak lager on the Geography trip. Got a good bollocking, but no detention or suspension or anything like that.
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Fri 30 Jan 2009, 0:33, closed)

yep
That technique is exactly how, after slapping a teacher's face in front of the whole class, I got away with "You're a very silly girl, don't do anything like that again."
(xanthine, Sun 1 Feb 2009, 2:08, closed)