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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Maggots? Maggots...MaggotsWe had a new kid start halfway through year 5 and his name was Jason. I was instantly alerted to his presence when I walked onto the playground that morning and found him singing Elvis songs surrounded by a group of other kids. He was an attention whore, and always claimed to be the best at every thing any body happened to mention. He also claimed to have a games console that could play SNES, Megadrive, Master System, NES and Lynx games but never let us see it.
Anyway, I had the misfortune of having to sit next to him. One afternoon, as the sun was beating through the windows and making the air hot and stuffy, I suddenly detected the unmistakeable scent of maggots. I was quite a keen little fisherman back then and so recognised it instantly. Panic struck me as I thought I may have left a tub of the wriggly blighters in my bag from the previous evenings fishing.
Luckily this wasn't the case, but I decided to mention it to the teacher just in case. She said she'd 'look into it'. The day went on, and the smell continued to hang in the air. We were then about to leave the class when the teacher took me aside and told me she'd located the source of the odour.
"It's Jason's socks!"
He must have been wearing them for weeks. Obviously his toes weren't wriggling with maggots, but they happened to take on the exact same smell.
Years after leaving school I found that Jason was doing the Elvis impersonating thing full time. Let's hope no one had a whiff of his Blue Suede Shoes...
(, Tue 23 Jan 2007, 14:01, Reply)
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