20 Pictures Will Take You Back To Secondary School Life
By
Waleed Raza in
Feel Good
On 16th January 2015
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#1 Though there were disturbing rumours about what they were made of, these things seemed magical.
#2 The living nightmare that was the Bleep Test.
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#3 Backing your books was an annual ballache.
#4 An endless supply of Parker ink cartridges that would inevitably leak and get everywhere.
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#5 There was no pain like being hit in the face by a dimpled plastic Mitre ball on a wet and windy day in February.
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#6 There was always that one football that had lost its leather (so you could kick it for miles!).
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#7 And chemistry always ended like this.
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#8 IT lessons were spent ensuring the teacher didn’t see you trying to beat your high score.
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#9 And no matter how many of these you’d bring in, you never really saw any benefit.
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#11 And though you went to a music lesson every week from years 7 to 9, all you ever did was hit the demo button.
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#12 Taking the ball out of your mouse.
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#13 You’d spend your days looking at the ceiling to avoid being the victim of this never-ending game.
#14 Except for grazing your knee on the AstroTurf. Maybe.
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#15 Maths was made marginally more tolerable when you worked out how to do this.
#16 Your pencil case was full of excitement. From the pens that definitely didn’t improve your handwriting…
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#17 This was the hardest decision you’d make all day.
#18 As soon as you’d get home from school you’d be straight on MSN.
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#19 But when it came to musical compositions, this was where you really shone.
#20 And no matter how many of these you’d bring in, you never really saw any benefit.
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#20 The last day of term was your mum’s worst nightmare.
