gets me a bad coffee at the local convenience mart.
But you're quite welcome for (and to) the information, pretty much any and all I've got. Like I said, it ain't exactly worth much or even good for a lot.
That kind of thing -did- get me beat up in school a lot, for being "a know it all."
"Know it all" is public-school-speak for "Blew the curve for the rest of us, he got them ALL right and we all flunked....Of course, he STUDIED and stayed awake in class, but hey, that's HIS fault and we shouldn't be punished because HE studied! GET HIM! KICK HIM WHILE HE'S DOWN! Punch'iminnaface! Kick'iminnafork!! MORE!! HARDER!"
Yeah, I have such memories of school, and I'm ever so likely to go all the way to the school-house a couple of km from here for our next "class reunion." Forty-fifth one is coming up fairly soon, AAMOF.... And when we have the 45th class reunion that will make 45 years that I SKIPPED going.
I'm not in ANY of the yearbooks, not in all the years I was in school. (Why give them something more to poke at?) The few people who were decent in school, I keep up with and see once in awhile.
Matter of fact, one of the really nice people from high school, a super person who I see quite frequently, inherited her great aunt's house which is right next door to ours.
Her Auntie Chrissie was a teacher, a teacher par excellence. She taught from the time she was 16 in a one-room log school in the bottom-lands down in the river flood plain. Then she got her "normal" certificate, the state license to teach, when she was 18, and was STILL substitute teaching when I went through high school here.
I was one of her pall bearers, she finally died about two months shy of her 105th birthday. That was about eight years ago now. Tempus fugit.
She was as sharp as a tack almost all the way to the end. Two or three bad months, after 104 years of nearly-perfect health.
A shame she had no children of her own, she was SUCH a treasure. I quite miss little Christine Aissi, all four and a half feet of her. She was a really special person and a wonderful neighbour.
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