The Weird Kid In ClassThere was a kid in my class who stood up every day and told everyone he had new shoes. This went on for weeks, and we all thought him nuts. Then, one day, he stood up and told us a long story about why his family were moving to another part of the country, and how excited he was. The next thing we heard was that he'd died in a plane crash.
Let's hear about the weird kid in your class...
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Fraser has joined the Moomins., Fri 19 Jan 2007, 10:18)
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Kid from SydneyI was brought up in a suburban town in Lake Macquarie, which is around 150kms north of Sydney, just south of Newcastle. Nothing too strange or too inbred - it seems almost too normal now (especially now that the internet has become my definition of normal).
Anyway, around age 14 a boy joins whose parents moved up from Sydney, and it was rare to have any new blood the class. He had a hyphenated surname too, which instantly made him a weird one.
He was a bit of a joker, and realised soon that he could easily shock everyone just by being himself. Then he must have realised he had to become weirder and weirder to get the same reaction.
By the end of school he had followed the alcohol trail through beer, wine, vinegar, cough syrup, mouth gargle and anything else he could find with a percentage sign or "ol" in the ingredient list. He was smart enough to know that cough syrup had a lot of anti-histamines in it, and that would be like taking a massive downer, but despite trying to balance it with uppers he was almost comatose at the end of that day.
After a bit of research he found out that the mind remembers things in the state that it learns them ie we remember things when we are drunk that we learn when we are drunk, so he goes about studying for his final exams drunk and rocks up to as many exams as he can pissed. Nice theory, not too successful in practice.
Oh, and he was seeing a doctor about his liver a couple of years after school as he was pissing blood one weekend.
I remember him trying to pull start a 6hp motor for a dingy (his? stolen?) after getting pissed at a party - after he fell in the water trying to start it I decided to get a lift home in a car instead.
Plenty of stories of his "secret" fetishes (for some reason his dream of being naked in a bathtub of wet lettuce left a lasting impression on me).
I need not say he like lighting fires - fine, I had an interest in that once I got a magnifying glass myself, and I doubt he was involved in the couple of fires at the school while I was there. Eventually worked his way up to be in charge of the fire brigade (still goes around lighting them though).
MD-W was a good mate for many years.
(, Fri 19 Jan 2007, 13:25, Reply)
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