This is one of the very few positive memories I have of my time at high school! So, some time not longer after the events of 9/11, I was at school, eating my lunch.
The school didn’t have much for a dinner room, other than some rooms either side of the canteen. If however you brought your own packed lunch, you would most likely sit in the giant pit, that was the main assembly room. There was a stage, and below, a large flat surface, that was below the room’s main surface level.
Anyway, I was sitting in there, eating my packed lunch, when suddenly, a senior student stood up, and addressed the room. What he did was he wrapped his tie (a tripple coloured one, to show how he sacrificed three years of his spare time to play sports for the school, like it was a great badge of honour, and made to make him and all others who wore them look like supperior students in front of the whole school), around his head, and said; ‘Listen up everyone, I just want to say, Stop The Bombs!’
He then proceeded, without hesitation (and lack of any music), to breakdance in front of the whole school. Few minutes later, he stood up, had a round of applause and vacated the area. A short time later, he and a group of his friends, peered over the barrier above where I was sitting, with one or two further shouting “Stop The Bombs!”
And then, just before lunch ended, he returned to the pit, addressed the hall, and breakdanced again. Not for long though, as Mr. Porteous (unsure of correct spelling), one of the three deputy heads, walked down the stairs into the pit, and told him to stop. And that was the end of that!
I saw him around school several times over the next couple of years, but he never breakdanced again. And just like that, one of the more interesting days I had at high school was over, and it was back to the misery!
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