school stealing

school stealing

Hobart Column

School stealing

16th july 2013

You either hate it or love it... lets face it no one loves school at the time your there
but for some reason you always say at some point.. "i wish i was in school again".
Many memories people could share im sure? and one bad memory that comes to mind would be... in music class of year 2004 which was my favourite class, me and a friend Ando was walking into the practice room, and as we walked i seen a microphone sitting on a music stand, so i grabbed it and once i got into the room i placed it inside a cupboard. No one seen me? i thought i could come back later with my bag and grab it, so i did. The next time in music class i stole a guitar tuner and another time with Ando in the practice room we both looked in this box full of accessories for music i found a double kick pedal which id always wanted so we took it and threw it out the window which was about a 3 story drop and nothing was behind the music room so it could just sit there till the end of school. As lunch started to finish up we decided we better go around and hide the pedal in case someone seen it. So we walked around the back of the music room and put the pedal behind a bush and as we walked back towards the stairs a teacher was on his way down to find out why we were back there.. Mr Mcnulty said.. "why are you boys down there?" i said we just dropped a ball out the window but we cant find it. so we kept walking... that was lucky.

After school i was to scared to go and get it so i walked to Jeremy's house who lived just down the road from the school, when i knocked on his door i told him about it and he was more than happy to do it so we walked up together and as i waited further down the bush for him i see him running up and grabbing it ninja style. He comes back and gives it to me so im off to go home and try it out.. score! i just got myself a free double kick pedal.

Few weeks later im sitting in Electronics class there is a knock at the door Mr Hill says "can i see you outside Adam" not thinking anything of it i walk outside, he says to me ive heard that you might have a few instruments at your house that you have taken from the school. I straight away said "no i dont". He looks at me funny and says cmon adam i know you have somethings there.. i say only a tuner, there must be more Adam maybe a kick pedal or something.. ? after about 3 or 4 minutes of him talking to me about this i just started bursting into tears because i knew i had been caught and there was nothing i could say or do but cry and hope that he wouldn't punish me. He hugs me and says its ok Adam just bring them back and nothing will happen, (as we know people who say that always have some sort of punishment waiting). But no he didn't punish me in fact when i brought everything back he just came up and asked me did i bring it back and i said yes, nothing more was said about it.

I was very lucky and fortunate to have such a great teacher who seen the good in me even though it wasn't like me to steal like that.