Who loves ya baby!
1972. Goegraphy field trip from Norbury Manor School, South London to Seaford in order to admire the Sussex Downs.

We sent one kid home in an ambulance with a possible punctured lung after the cock of a teacher decided to get the group to climb down a near vertical chalk slope.

Once the ambulance left we sauntered down into Seaford and found several kiosk's on what passed for a sea-front. It was wet, windy and winter so they were all locked up. For a while. Once we got the padlocks off we stripped them bare.

Every (dishonest!) kid was carrying as much as he could hold. The prize catch was a plastic Kojak hat with 'Who Loves Ya Baby!' printed on teh front. If you had one of those you had arrived!

We anticipated making big profits until the coach arrived back at the school and we saw the police cars and officers waiting for us. Shit! They had no trouble finding kids to grass us up and so I earnt my second* ,school trip related, caution! As well as another ban from sports activities and school trips.

*see my earlier story regarding a French day-trip.
(gobbo, Thu 14 Dec 2006, 17:27, Reply)