Free Association Thread 4

[SamScribble]

I spent much of my high school years in the principal's office.

I have a younger cousin who spent more than 20 years in the principal's office. Mind you, his was the name on the door.

 

[JKendallDane]

I have a younger cousin who spent more than 20 years in the principal's office. Mind you, his was the name on the door.

I always seemed to walk the fine line between regularly ending up in the principal's office and still managing to be on a first name basis with him.

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[Handley_Page]

If, by 'principal' you refer to the Headmaster (or mistress) of a school, I recall that ours was about as far away as the Good Lord, and twice as terrible.
Or 'Head of Year' teachers were bad enough.

 

[L1tTleD1fferent]

My sole sibling's First & Second Grade teachers each/both graduated at the end of my years in the same grade, & we were only one year apart.

Meanwhile, my primary-school principal actually took me to the elementary school early to intro me to their principal & make sure I could physically handle the steps & things.

My sibling & I graduated from the same alma mater with no detentions, suspensions, nor expulsions. They won the school's spelling bee in 5th Grade (placing in the county), whereas I won the school when I was in 3rd, 5th, & 8th Grades. I stopped after high school, but my sibling graduated also from an out-of-state college they attended on a full scholarship, & now home-schools their child.

Problem? I can never tell if their children are overly-intelligent for their age, as we were both above the norm for our ages in the past.

 

[SamScribble]

Problem? I can never tell if their children are overly-intelligent for their age, as we were both above the norm for our ages in the past.

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six. - Dylan Thomas

 

[Handley_Page]

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six. - Dylan Thomas

I remember waking one Christmas morn to snow on the ground (I was about 5).
This came as something of a surprise as I'd never seen it before.
It's not happened too often since.

 

[MichaelinChina]

I remember waking one Christmas morn to snow on the ground (I was about 5).
This came as something of a surprise as I'd never seen it before.
It's not happened too often since.

Hardly ever was in snow until I came to China to live and work.

 

[SamScribble]

Hardly ever was in snow until I came to China to live and work.

'S no business like snow business

 

[Handley_Page]

'S no business like snow business

Not if you are the man with a Tractor, or a 4-wd truck, or a snow plough, anyway.

 

[JKendallDane]

Not if you are the man with a Tractor, or a 4-wd truck, or a snow plough, anyway.

A Rolls Royce, a tractor, a 4WD, and a VW hippie bus are parked in front of a bar...

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[MichaelinChina]

A Rolls Royce, a tractor, a 4WD, and a VW hippie bus are parked in front of a bar...

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Car talk....