Quote Originally Posted by wombat2u2004 View Post
I can remember an incident that happened to me when I was about 8 years old. I was in class and felt really sick. I asked the teacher if I could go outside because I was feeling sick.....she said no....about a minute later I vomited all over the floor. She made me clean it up.
Moderation, mate.

You Aussies start young.

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We used to have phy ed once a week and it consisted of a guy in sweat pants coming out and making everyone line up by classes, 1-8 and do warmups, jumping jacks, push-ups.....

You were not allowed to talk during the class. I was standing in front of two idiots who were talking and the 'coach' looks at me and says, "Go back inside, you were talking...." I told him I didn't say anything and he answered, "NOW YOU ARE..."

I went back to my class and had to take the ruler across the hands for being sent back. Boy, was I ticked.....

Most of the time a swat or two wasn't a huge deal. If you were smart, it made you realize that you could not act/be stupid.

There were a few times that the sentence was far worse than the crime.

Our school had lay teachers and nuns.

Some of the nuns were nothing but bullies, they were mean, nasty, brutal and sadistic. And it was always the older ones that were the biggest AHs.

The 'nun dress code' had just changed and the newer crop didn't have to dress like Sister Bertrille. so they were cool and hip. The older ones were really ticked about that they took it out on the kids.

God, those were the days!