'Awhh, those were the days' - childhood memories

[dizzyblonde]

speaking of school buses, for some odd reason when ours (double deckers)used to pull into the bus station, we all used to cram to the front and when I mean cram, I mean cram. All the top deck used to surge and surf down the the bottom and everyone used to pack in like sardines....even had crowd surfers!

I remember one day, the lads smoking at the back up the top, were sat against the back side window, went round a corner and it fell out, luckily nobody with it, so the rest of the journey proceeded with them all hanging out of it waving.

I remember in Science once, Juliet C forgot to plug the rubber hose to the gas tap, and promptly went to light it and got her own personal flame thrower

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

I remember in Science once, Juliet C forgot to plug the rubber hose to the gas tap, and promptly went to light it and got her own personal flame thrower

OOO, science lessons, there's another few...

- Fork, electrical socket. Need I say more?
- "The show that never ends" - anyone that went to the same school as me would know what that means.
- Pen battles. Two people sit opposite each other, each person holds a pen into the others hand (back of the hand was favoured). Push down as hard as possible, until one person quits.
- various chemical/electrical pranks.

And one from outside of school:
- sh!t river jumping. Near where I lived there was a stream, pretty wide in places, that at certain times of year was simply a brown goo oozing slowly down the field. It literally looked like faeces. Accidentally stepping in it resulted in some funny & childish noises. The deal was to see how far you could jump across, without "sh!tting yourself."

[tigersaw]

ooooh science.... tipping a bottle of mercury into someones blazer pocket, bunsen burners connected to water taps, pinching magnesium ribbon to play with at dinner time, girls getting sick when having to disect a locust, sunlight and magnifying glasses,

[keith_d]

Jumping off the back of Routemasters as they slowed down for the stop. This started off fairly sensible, but eventually we were jumping off at about 20mph. Pretty dangerous, but as kids we didn't care.

Best fun was one time when the conductor jumped off to get some cigarettes. We waited about 5 minutes then rang the bell. It was about two stops before one of the grown ups went round to the driver and grassed us up. We had to walk the rest of the way home, but it was worth it.

Another classic, eggs & cars. Then being chased across the field by someone driving a landrover.

A variant of that, picking berries off the trees to throw at cars etc. When the next vehicle we see is a bike. My best mate looked at me, I looked at him. It had to be done.

I'm not sure who's berry hit where, but one of us hit him on the front of the visor, and these berries were the type that splattered.

The rider hit the brakes & we legged it up the nearby path.

A few minutes went by & we bravely walked back to where we were before. Suddenly this bike comes flying out of a side road, at high revs. So we legged it again. The biker decided to try & follow us. His problem was that the grass of the side of the path was wet, and he came off. But it meant we got away.

[keith_d]

Don't get me started on chemistry lessions - they were great fun.

For one term we had a very unreliable supply teacher, Mr "Flakey" Flack and we sabotaged a several of his classes.

First up was phenolpthalein in his test tubes when he was doing a 'acids and bases' demo. We very generously left him another set of demo sized test-tubes in the cupboard - spiked with a different indicator (maybe methylene blue).

As luck would have it we were doing organic analysis at the back of the lab the following week too, and that weeks compound was succinic acid. Heat this and you get succinic anhydride fumes which make people cough. Predictably, his class was beset by dreadful coughing attacks at regular intervals.

Then there was the time we filled a lab with chlorine - so much chlorine the air looked distinctly green. We had to leave that one overnight to clear (oops).

[keith_d]

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

ahhh now see we had a 'pet mould' in one of the spare lockers.
It started out as a cup that had been left with probably some tea or coffee or something in it. Somebody decided that they'd start feeding it...and it grew..it was disgusting and only the brave opened the locker door to feed t, but very funny at the time!

Now that reminds me....

I was in the habit of slamming my locker open with a bang. So for a prank some people cultivated a jug of 'pet mould' until it was really rank then tied it inside my locker door. Fortunately, (for me) one of the teachers came into our block looking for missing books and flicked each locker open in turn. So he ended up wearing a pint of revolting slops meant for me.