20 years later, this still makes me wonder why I was such an odd child!
I was a bit shy granted, but still...
In 2nd year seniors, start of the new school year, new art class and teacher, everyone gets in and sits down at new desks, I was the last one in...and my spot at the table had no chair!
So, did I mention to the teacher that there was no chair! nope.
What I did, was sort of crouch down, into some fake sitting position and stay there for the entire double period! Pretending to sit! As if no one would notice...!
It is this sort of thing, that means I will never ever attend a school reunion!
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TonytheFish · 24/02/2014 14:09
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KatieMeLuna ·
26/02/2014 13:02
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AllThatGlistens ·
26/02/2014 14:38
We had an extremely odd thing in secondary school of covering our pencil tins in tippex and then scratching graffiti onto them with a compass (normally whoever we fancied and hated at the time).
Naturally this changed on a weekly basis, so a row of us would be found repainting our tins with aforementioned tippex ready for our next round of compass etchings 
I remember having a temp physics teacher in once (extremely good looking young chap that had recently left the army iirc so naturally we all fell in love)
I was dared to mess about with a condom one of the boys had procured to see if he noticed obviously, me being a cocky teen managed to flick it straight at him. I actually cracked my head on the desk as I dived to pretend to be rummaging in my bag for something, probably tippex to paint my tin!
Weirdo..
Edendance ·
26/02/2014 14:56
I Love these!
I used to pick at my fingernails and the skins round them when in bed, then if it got sore or bled I would make little bandages out of strips of tissue and water and build them up. I'd then aim to leave them on all night or wait until they went quite solid and leave them on the side to dry so I could reapply them the following day! I also used to bite off my fingernails and either eat them or keep them in a little jar...
My best friend used to have a bucket of salt blocks I presume they used to use for the dishwasher in their downstairs toilet and we used to go in there and lick them! The same friend used to insist we went to the toilet together every time
I used to be convinced that I had an amazing singing voice but be coy about it- I would sing the Joseph soundtrack in the car with my mum, positive that it was only a matter of time before she called up an agency and showed them my talent!
About 10/11 years old my group of friends decided that farting was the funniest thing ever. We would have to announce 'silence please' before letting one rip as loud as possible! There's even a video tape somewhere of me as a weather forecaster predicting 'strong winds' and then letting one off... I should really try and track that down and destroy it
Finally, on my second brownie camp i streaked all the way down the corridor, no idea why, just thought it'd be funny! A couple of years later I then streaked around my grandmas garden in the snow for a £1 bet from my Dad... NO idea how that came about!
RevealTheHiddenBeach ·
26/02/2014 15:07
LOVE this thread.
When we were about 12/13 we used to go into town and into butchers, pasty shops etc and ask for 'codded beef', and then pretend to get really annoyed when the people serving us (understandably) had no idea what it was.
There was a bush in the park which was hollowed out and you could sit in the middle of it. We decided to make up a club, with membership cards and everything. We were called The Bush Club.
I hope kids today are just as weird as we were 
it would be such a shame to think they are missing out on the future horror of remembering their teenage years!
Mandy2003 ·
26/02/2014 15:38
My house number was 2 when I was a child. The club thing must have been such a fashion because I called mine "The Number 2 Club"!! Well, it wasn't slang that was used by my parents so I had no idea of the double meaning 
feathermucker ·
26/02/2014 15:48
Marking.......excellent thread.
I remember people in my class who used to draw with compasses on their arms and do the whole 'blood brothers' thing.
One of us would say ""fork" (or similar) snd someone else would say "off"
ThatFuckerFancyPuffin ·
26/02/2014 16:22
I have another.
When in Junior school (in Kent where I was born and raised) me and my bf decided to pretend we were from some far flung exotic place that used different words.
It would go something like;
'Can you do a handstand?'
'No, that's not a handstand that's a cartwheel'
'Yes it is'
Oh, it must mean something different here, we don't speak the language here, we're from Lincoln.'
Fucking twats we were 
sittingbythepoolwithenzo ·
26/02/2014 16:29
Oh I recognise so many of these!
I also had an entire stable of imaginary horses, and spent a whole year on horseback in the playground. The teachers used to wait for us to put them in the stable before starting lessons.
At upper school, we all wore leather shoe laces aaround our arms (in the style of Aha). We bought them from the cobblers in the village, who clearly thought we were bonkers. We had to take them off for PE, so the next lesson was spent with the teacher walking up and down the rows of desks tying the knots for us.
I fancied a boy who had a saturday job in Rumbelows, and went in to buy batteries every week.
Oh, and I got my period in a physics lesson. Very scared of the teacher, so I took my sock off and stuffed it down my knickers rather than going to the loo.
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