6th Form...
...were the best years of my life!

Highlights include:

1. Agreeing to have a homemade blowdart made from a lolly stick, a long needle and a 5p for ballast shot into my chest through my uniform. I wimped out at the last minute and tried to shield myself. The blood running from my arm was quite worrying after that!

2. Waiting until it was quiet in the common room and then arranging all the chairs in a long line and playing "Gauntlet" on them i.e. One person has to get from one end to the other without being thrown over the top of the chairs by 3/4 others!

3. Waiting for a DT teacher to leave the room, and then Araldite-ing her desk draw shut. As far as I know, it was never reopened!

4. Using a "Jewellery Making" project as an excuse for melting metal with a blowtorch and making crudely whittled MDF shapes moulds. I did this for 4 hours a week for a whole year and a half!

5. Putting money togeher to go on "McDonald's" runs, then having competitions to see who could eat 5 Double Cheeseburgers the fastest.

6. Tampering with a quiz buzzer system so that even if the other team pressed the button first, our bell would win. Two years in a row we won that!

7. Putting all of the common room chairs in a pile over a hungover sleeping person and using many rolls of thick parcel tape to ensure it stayed solid. "Chair Mountain" as it was christened was even pushing up the artificial roof tiles, it was that big!
(r2b2 has ear cataracts?!?, Sat 21 Jul 2007, 11:24, Reply)