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jmcquown[_2_]

On 7/11/2018 10:49 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2018-07-11 9:35 AM, wrote:
>>>
>> To be honest, I don't think they would have allowed open ink pots in
>> any classroom when I was child, even all the way to senior high school.
>> Ruined clothes, ink fights, spilled ink on the floor.Â* Nope, definitely
>> no open ink pots in a classroom.
>
> True. Teachers and janitors were probably happy to see them gone. I once
> got into trouble for a stupid prank. There was a cute girl seated in
> front of me and her pig tails were often resting on my desk. Opportunity
> knocks once but temptation leans on the door bell. I dipped the end of
> her right pigtail into my ink pot. I don't think she realized that but
> she probably sensed that something was a miss and jerked her head
> forward, ripping her pig tail from my 10 year old fingers and onto her
> immaculately clean white blouse.
>
I always thought the dipping of a girl's pigtail in an ink pot was an
urban legend. Kind of like my dad walking uphill to school both ways in
the snow...

Jill