Winter break for students is almost over. Tell us about a class and something you regret doing in the class?
Believe it or not, at one point in high school they thought that I was worthy enough to give me a role in desktop publishing; editing and writing for the school newspaper and the Pine Bough, the yearbook of Spooner High School. Let’s skip all the great stories about sitting in an empty movie theater with my friend Sam reviewing terrible movies in 2003 and 2004 and all the flirting I did with Alanna to get out of every hard deadline I ever had to be the biggest slacker possible, and move to the time where I was asked to leave the class for good. (and still get credit for it)
Our group met in our advisor’s classroom; let’s shorten the advisors name to Mr. B. (anyone from Spooner my age can pretty much figure that one out) We were covertly dicking around and fucking off with school time, while still trying to put the finishing touches on the last pages of the yearbook. Someone decided to play hangman on the markerboard at the front of class and yours truly decided to take the words up a notch from the normal goofing off. Mr. B wasn’t there for the beginning of the game so I decide to be inappropriate - the shit if I get caught, I’m too charming and charismatic to be in trouble anyway - I write a name on the board. We quickly get to J_ K ME _ FF and everyone is already chuckling when Mr. B comes back into the room. A puzzled look definitely finds my face as I am trying to judge the range of trouble I am going to be in. He looks at the board, doesn’t say a word and sits at his desk. I remember my classmate Ryan saying, “Hey, we have to finish this game.” We get to JACK ME_OFF and suddenly it piques Mr B’s interest that there is one letter left. That is, until he sounds out the name. “
Jack Mehoff? I don’t get why that’s funn…oh…jack me off. Oh. ZACHARY GET IN THE HALLWAY NOW.”
Boy, did I get my ass reamed out. He called my parents, made them have a sit down and they decided I had to sit in the cafeteria for that last month of class as he was ‘purely disappointed in my lack of character’ to have me be in the class anymore. Who can say they got reprimanded for a decades old joke and still got an A in a class? Yours truly. More than once even.
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