[meyer]

"...except for that time I lit a firecracker in French class and threw it under the chair of the kid in front of me,..."

Did he surrender? I mean, it was French class after all...

[rlmorel]

I think I did act up in classes I REALLY hated, like French, Spanish and typing. I guess I just felt trapped.

I didn’t act up in math, because I was simply depressed and discouraged by having to be there, and I just could not do the work. French, Spanish and typing I could have done if I had applied myself, but not math. And there was no getting out of it, either.

I am not proud of doing that, but with some years between it, it seems hilarious to me that I would have done it. I was a very quiet kid, though that doesn’t seem to indicate it.