Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:06:52 EDT
From: Jenni Sheehey <JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Oh, and one more ...
 <1992Jul14.170624.13856@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
 <92198.183809JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Jul17.143210.1890@novell.com>
 <l6dvevINNj09@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>

In article <l6dvevINNj09@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>, geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM
(Geoff Miller) says:
>
>A friend of mine went to high school in Virginia (I believe at Fairfax,
>in fact; that sounds awfully familiar) for a couple of years before
>his family moved back to Mountain View.  He told me that the school
>was encircled by a chain-link fence, and that the perimeter was patrolled
>by security guards from the school district in a Ford Bronco, to keep the
>students in.  He was serious.  This was in the early Seventies, though,
>so I assume things have changed considerably since then.

Somehow, I don't think that was Fairfax.  Might've been *in* Fairfax,
though, it's a county (of course Fairfax HS isn't actually in Fairfax
county, it's in Fairfax City, and boy, does one get tired of the word
Fairfax).

But the idea of it being encircled be a fence (even assuming it were
possible, since the woods come right up to a couple of the parking lots)
is *too* funny.  =)

Peeve: Sneaking out at lunch with my boyfriend and having his car refuse
to start at McDonalds.  I had to walk back to school, and was almost a
half hour late.

!Peeve: The teacher was a bit of an idiot and managed not to notice I
was late.  (This is rather difficult in a class of 20, but this is the
same teacher that didn't notice when someone randomly inserted the
Gettysburg Address in the middle of a *sentence* in a paper about FDR.)

Peeve: Teenage boys with "real" cars.  This one was an old beat up mid
70's sedan which he "fixed up" himself.  Part of that fixing involved
making it very loud.  He used to sit outside my house and rev the engine
to let me know he was there.  I think he thought it was cool, but I just
thought it was rude (besides the fact that it is not the way to endear
oneself to a young lady's parents).

!Peeve: the time he got stopped for going 75 through a red light right
in front of the police dispatch building.  He didn't get a ticket.  He
had that kind of an innocent face.

    Policeman: Could I see your license and registration.
    Tommy: Yes, sir.  [gets them and hands them to the policeman.]
    P: D'you realise you got two girls in that car? [Oh, shit, who
       are those girls in my car?  How did they get there?]
    T: Yes, sir, one of them's my sister.  [this was true]
    P: I think you should get out of the car, son.
    T: Yes, sir.  [Gets out of the car revealing the amusing fact
       that he is about 8 inches taller than the policeman.]
    P: You drunk, son?
    T: No, sir.  [this was also true]
    P: You know how fast you were going?
    T: Not exactly, sir, I was going too fast, I'm sorry, sir.  [this
       was a whopping great lie, except the part about it being too
       fast]
    P: You going to do it again, son?
    T: No, sir.  [This was completely untrue]
    P: See that you don't. Go on and get those girls home.
    T: Thank you, sir.

That was it!!  It was amazing.  I wouldn't have believed it had I not
seen it.  A few "sir"s and he gets away with it.  Incredible.

Peeve: It never would've worked for me.  I'm not 6'4" and innocent
looking.

                                                 --Jenni
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