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marty wrote:In my day you weren't even allowed to speak unless your leg was falling off,............. And youngsters these days say they have it tough!
and when did you leave? We didn't even have access to phones.
As for the leg business I got into sh.tstreet one night. On parade into dining hall I felt a stone and a mass of slime in my shoe and asked permission to fall out. Request refused. In dining hall I removed the offending shoe to pour out the accumulated liquid - it took a fork to lever out the length of broken glass.
A few days later I got hauled into Mr Jones' (Prep A) office and given merry hell for getting my socks so dirty - I had been reported by matron. Treatment - you must be joking, but at least I didn't get beaten for that offence. The scar is about an inch and a half long even now.
Surely, if you left in '61, you had access to the phone in the corridor alongside the prep tables in the dining hall ?
Have to confirm that Mr Jones of Prep A was one scary b*gger ! Thankfully, I never got on the wrong side of him in my Prep B days !
J.R. wrote:Surely, if you left in '61, you had access to the phone in the corridor alongside the prep tables in the dining hall ?
Have to confirm that Mr Jones of Prep A was one scary b*gger ! Thankfully, I never got on the wrong side of him in my Prep B days !
I may have left in 1961 but the event was in 1952 when I was in Prep A. No phones then - and I never even knew there was a phone there even later. Being in Col A we never had reason to go to the other end of the dining hall. As for Mr Jones see my post today about apologies regarding him and his inability to speak a "proper" language!
What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution.
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
Great Plum wrote:The pay phone in Maine A was very close to my study (my study was a curious little room on the ground floor)
A dep used to phone his girlfriend at about 2.30 in the morning and she used to phone back - it got to the stage where I used to leave the phone off the hook once I went to bed...)
Quit moaning - my study was next door to that room........