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I’m remembering a school situation…
In 1964, I was in the seventh grade. I was 13. I went to a new school that year, and wound up leaving before the year was over when we moved yet again.
We had a vice principle whom I never saw smile.
Not once. He had this stern frown every time I saw him.
There was a row between a couple of boys one day, and a crowd was gathered, and here comes mr Brown, paddle in hand, to “ straighten out” these boys.
He chewed on everyone, and finished his remarks with :”You boys have to realize you’re becoming adults before long.”
Aanndd…my add seventh grade mouth opened all by itself and wiggled.
What fell out as I looked him in the eye, was “If I have to frown like you do all the time, I hope I never get there.”
And I walked away. But, as I did, my seventh grade eyes saw something on his face that I had never seen before. He looked like he had been what I think they call these days; bitch-slapped.
He never said anything about it, and we moved away soon after.
I’ve wondered at times, what he thought about what he heard from a kid.