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Cheri[_3_]

"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 7/13/2018 12:37 PM, Cheri wrote:
>> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
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>>>
>>> "jmcquown" wrote in message ...
>>> 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. 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
>>>
>>> ==
>>>
>>> I had my plait dipped in ink! Wrecked the ribbon!
>>
>> There's a reason why it has been featured so many times because I'm sure
>> it happened a lot in bygone ages.
>>
>> Cheri
>
> Tom Sawyer! He dipped Becky Thatcher's braid in an ink pot.
>
> Jill

I missed the ink pots, none of them in the desks at the one room school I
attended. I also don't remember any of the girls wearing braids where I was.

Cheri