Aah school days – we thought they would never end (Picture: Warner Bros)Hey depressed 20 somethings with a stressful job and the pressure of paying the rent! Remember our school days?
Oh, how life was simpler back then.
Once you have read this list of precious memories, if you aren’t
aching to go back in time to the 90s to relive school, then there is
something seriously wrong. 1) Walking around the playground chanting ‘Who Wants to Play Stuck In The Mud?’ with new players joining like a conga line. Once you had gained sufficient players, the bell inevitably ringing before the game could commence.
2) Feeling like a class celebrity when you had a new pack of smelly gel pens and your maths sheet smelled of blueberry. 3) The exhilaration in assembly when it was announced that the fields were no longer out of bounds in summer at break time.
4) The desperate concentration during a tense game of ‘Slaps’ 5) Tidy up time being the most active part of the day with
the looming threat of having to stay behind for five minutes spurring
you into action.
6) The giddy thrill of completing an exercise book and the first page of your new book being achingly neat. It would never last. 7) Three bells for a wet lunchtime meaning that the assembly hall was going to be a scene of anarchy for the next hour.
8) The vicious rumours about injections and the relief at emerging from the medical room alive. 9) Pimping up your typed up homework with WordArt and
hilarious clipart so that what you had written drowned in a sea of
cartoons and GIANT TITLES.
10) The slow countdown to lunchtime during period three when it was Turkey Dinosaur and Smiley Faces day
(Picture: Tim Garnet/Alamy)11) The sheer voodoo magic of these bad boys which could rub out pen.
(Picture: anythinglefthanded.co.uk)12) Practically dislocating your arm from it’s socket when you REALLY
knew an answer and making every strained, desperate sound possible
short of shouting out the answer.
(Picture: PA Wire)13) The looks of grief exchanged with your playmates when Red Rover was officially banned by school law.
14) The sheer malice and hatred you felt for students in other houses
and your rage of injustice when more people from other houses were
granted house points than yours. 15) The pressure of including all of your friends’ names in
your story for English and inventing pointless filler characters just so
no one felt left out.
16) When the TV trolley was brought into the room. It didn’t even
matter that it was a science documentary on wood, you got to watch TV,
right? 17) Mastering the backwards roll to the wide applause of your awestruck classmates on the ridiculously hard blue gym mats.
18) The swagger you had when you were selected to write something on the chalkboard. 19) Nailing group show and tell presentations by taking turns to read out one word each at a time.
20) The utter terror of forgetting your PE kit and having to borrow a smelly set of school spares. 21) Friday assemblies where instead of singing ‘Jesus Hands
Were Kind Hands’ we got to sing classics such as ‘There’s a Hole in your
Bucket’.
Switching the acetate on the overhead projector mid song was a skill (Picture: Alamy)22) The most exciting thing about school trips being the special
packed lunch you had brought. Even if you had a packed lunch every day
at school. 23) The agony of choice when trying to select the one game or
toy for the last day of term to take in. Game Boy or Buckaroo? This
often required a strategy meeting with friends beforehand so that all
bases were covered.
24) Unleashing the inner animal in ourselves on sports day when asked
to climb into a sack and run or balance a plastic egg atop a spoon. The
pressure. 25) Reminiscing about the first weeks of term when finding
old worksheets during the every-so-often clear out of your desk drawer.
26) The discovery that Look and Read actually aired on TV before you
watched it at school and feeling like a complete boss when you held the
spoilers for Through The Dragon’s Eye.
27) The puffed out chest of importance when asked to go and collect the register or to take a message to another teacher.
28) Thinking that the Pokemon/Pogs/Tamagotchi crazes would never end
and that your impressive collection would mean that you would remain
popular for life. 29) The new kid being treated as the chosen one and running
home to tell your parents that you had been chosen to look after them on
their first day.
30) The sleepless night of not being sure if the next day was an own
clothes day or if it were all just an elaborate ploy to make you look
foolish. 31) Art lessons involving joys such as sequins, glitter, PVA glue and poster paint.
32) The pride of standing up in front of the class when you got 10/10
on a spelling test and being able to look down on the failures beneath
you. 33) The Megamaths songs. All together now: ‘Two times two is four! Two times three is six!’
34) Knowing that your best friend at school would be your best friend for life. And now you’re trying to recall their name.
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