Can you remember a rule from grade school/High School that made no sense to you now? Mine--girls were forbidden to wear

[Niagara]

63. First I want to say that I'm forever grateful that I grew up in a time

where young ladies were allowed to wear pants/slacks/ jeans to school. I'm not much of a fan of wearing skirts and dresses on a regular basis.


My own personal experience at grammar school was morning mandated reciting of the pledge of allegiance. I didn't understand the words or the meaning of it. As an adult, I don't understand flag worship. To me it's just weird.




I remember being in junior high and facing some collective punishment in an afternoon math class. Some knucklehead put their ABC (already been chewed) gum on the bottom of a double student desk. Two students sat at these double desks at a time. We had 7 rotating class periods in an entire school day so the ABC gum offender could have been anyone.


Anyway, the teacher handed out collective punishment and gave everyone an individual toothbrush and had students scrub the bottom of the double student desk with the toothbrush, ABC gum or no ABC gum. I was underneath the desk on my back with my eyes closed. The partner that I shared the double student desk leans over to me and laughs out loud and asks, "Niagara, are you taking a nap?"

I replied, "Yeah, I'm not scrubbing the bottom of the desk. Miss Scott (the teacher) can kiss my ass."


I want to perfectly clear here, I was not a troublemaker in school, but I also wasn't a gum chewer and so I wasn't scrubbing a damn thing for anyone. I also knew that I had backup at home from my mom if it would have become an issue which thankfully it didn't become an issue.

You can still kiss my ass, Miss. Scott.