Primary school, first year..
..myself and new best buddy Max were very young, but we thought we were the coolest. We used to make up crazy stories and laugh like drains at their silliness. We shunned the other kids to hang out together and fantasise. Good times. (so maybe I've questioned my sexuality a few times in the past but that has nothing to do with max and I being mutually exclusive best buddies for about 8 years.. err..)

One day when everyone is knocking around the playground skipping, playing football, lamping each other etc. we walk past our classroom and look in. Everything is arranged neatly as there is a classroom rule about putting things in order before going out to play. The door has been left unlocked and open. It is too tempting.

In what could be one of my finest efforts at subversion yet Max and I didn't just tear into the room and pull it apart like normal 6 year olds (or however old first-year primary pupils are); rather we went round the room and methodically pulled every chair out from under the desks, lifting them upside-down on top of the desks as per the hometime ritual.

When we got caught is the earliest instance I remember getting told off for anything. And we got quite a rollocking. Parents were informed. I recall feeling extraordinarily bad about it, not really comprehending what we'd done, just that we had heiniously broken the rules and that this was a very bad thing and that we were a couple of incorrigeable ne'er-do-wells for life.

Still not sure what to think about it..
(raymond "three griddle pans" luxury yacht lovin' the christmas action, Mon 2 Feb 2009, 21:33, 3 replies)

I'd be terribly disappointed myself
I mean, if you're going to get in that much trouble you might as well make it for something worthwhile. I find it very odd that when given an entire classroom to disrupt you chose to turn the chairs upside down. I'd surprised if the teachers weren't giggling at you behind your backs ;P
(xanthine, Tue 3 Feb 2009, 5:13, closed)

They could well have been..
..I was about 6 - my memory's not entirely complete. What I've written is how I remember the incident; obviously time could have warped the facts. It was a weird-ass catholic school where the teachers weren't particularly hip though. Don't recall them laughing at much at all.

I think it was alright for six year olds. Better than just making a mess, surely.
(raymond "three griddle pans" luxury yacht lovin' the christmas action, Tue 3 Feb 2009, 12:39, closed)

It's because you weren't bad kids...
They gave you a going over because then you wouldn't dare attempt anything slightly deviant again. That's what they do to the good kids who do something slightly naughty.
(Cryptoprocta has abandoned the username of Voodoo Mary, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 13:58, closed)