WHEN I WAS A KID

When I was a kid, snow ball fights were common.  Big ones!  It's what got me in trouble one time.

I was in the eighth grade.  School was just two blocks from home.  After lunch that day, about this time of year, we had a school assembly scheduled.  The nuns were going to announce the winner of the class presidency election held that morning.  I was voted in and was marched up on the stage to accept.

Little did I know that at the same time, a busybody home owner was calling the principal to complain about some students.  It seems a snowball fight had occurred in front of her house during the lunch break - maybe one hit her house or someone trampled through her yard, I don't know.  In any case, the nun stormed into our classroom and asked who was involved. How could I not admit it - it was right on my way to school.

Her eyes grew wide when I confessed and she declared I couldn't be class president - bad example and all that.  Oh well.  So much for my political career!
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