School’s In Contest: Fury’s Kiss by Karen Chance

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1. In high school this guy named Teddy rode a motorcycle through the school, while school was going on. He had two buddies helping him, one held the door open for him to get in and the other held the door open to get out. It was great hearing that sound during class.

2. My most bizarre school memory happened in sixth grade. I had been practicing a dance routine with one of my friends for the talent show. At the last minute, she decided not to participate. I should have just canceled the audition but I went ahead without her. My new routine had not been practiced and was awful. There was just silence after I finished. I am so glad this was before everyone could take videos and post them online.

3. The most bizarre thing that ever happened to me in high school was in my freshman year; four of my other friends and i acted out a whole soap opera, off the top of our heads with textbooks, in biology. It was so extremely silly and dysfunctional that I’ve never forgotten that day.

4. Oh god I am so excited for this book!!!

   Hmn my most bizarre memory from school days? I have to say my education years have been pretty unique altogether and still remain so hehe.

   I remember while in primary school there used to be load of rumors that there were wild black panthers living in the area, like full on Bagheera. I live in the UK by the way so this was pretty ridiculous. I think it may have something to do with a lion escaping from a local circus some years ago and generally terrifying the village I lived in and surrounding areas by sauntering through people’s gardens late at night until it was caught.

   Anyway, loads of the kids used to say that the lane behind the school was where the panthers hid. So when a couple the trees in our school field (near said lane) suddenly had what looked to be scratch marks on the trunks none of us would go near that area of the field for months. This meant that the rumors started circulating the whole school once again and got even more out of hand. The teachers were a bit befuddled at our sudden aversion to the school field and worry about panthers being able to get through cat flaps and trying to eat our pets (because we were too big to get eaten, obviously).

   …..I feel strange typing that out. Mass hysteria (only a slight exaggeration) and panther paranoia at my school…..yup.

5. The most bizarre thing that happened to me at school was during a history lesson. I was terrified of my teacher and whenever he spoke to me or asked a question I went completely blank and dumb. One day he stood in front of me and shouted so hard at me for not answering him that his false teeth fell out on the desk in front of me. I was horrified! The rest of the class were laughing with just a few looking shocked, but I could have cried!

6. Most bizarre thing was in high school. My Spanish teacher Mr. Berrendero told me that he was writing a book listing 99 things you could do with one single square of toilet paper. “What can you do with one square of TP?” I asked him. So he gave me one example: you cut a little finger-sized hole out of the toilet paper. You stick your finger through the hole and use your finger to wipe your bum. Then you pull the toilet paper square up over your finger, using it to clean the finger on the way up. Save the little circle you cut out of the hole to wipe your fingernail clean.

   When he said this, all I could think about were the logistical problems. The tearing toilet paper. The fact that your finger would not be very clean at the end of this procedure. The length of time and amount of water and soap that you would need to scrub your finger with afterward. It really took me a long time to figure out that this was a joke, and that he wasn’t really writing a book about 99 uses for toilet paper squares. I was a pretty stupid kid. But then, it wasn’t really your standard joke.

   I cannot wait for Fury’s Kiss!

7. My 8th grade English teacher had the hots for me & it was totally creepy. I would look up to find him staring at me *shudders* The other kids noticed & teased the h*ll out of me. Now days girls can cry sexual harassment but back in the 70’s girls would just as likely be blamed for it.

8. I was in Junior High around the 7th grade, when one day over the school innercom come a voice requesting the presence of myself and my best friend to report to the principles office. Well neither of us had ever been called or sent for before. Alexis and I left class and made our way there trying to figure out why this was happening to us.

   When we arrived sitting in chairs outside his office were several boys that were always in trouble. His secretary told us to go in and he would be right with us. Alexis was very calm as we sat there, but all I could think of was that maybe they had checked our lockers and I had too many books checked out.

   By the time he arrived I was shaking in my seat, really shaking so much he asked if he could get me some water to drink. Told us we were not in any trouble they were just pulling kids randomly that rode the bus to get some feedback since this was the first year the school was opened. Alexis’s last name started with a K and I am an L. I will always remember the day when I thought I was in trouble for having too many library books out.

9. Well, I was kind of a good girl, so I don’t have much of bizarre memories, but I think I can say one of high school with my Physics teacher. He was literally the worse that could ever exist in academically: the class included no teaching actually, and once me and other classmates even spent the whole hour playing poker with him, taking photos and doing anything but learning. It was a good year an everyone aproved the subject :)
   I’m a total fan of Karen Chance, just can’t wait Fury’s Kiss!

10. My most bizarre memory is in 1st grade I was left at school because a cousin was supposed to bring me home but was sick. I was standing outside the school. All the other kids were gone. An older guy stopped and was trying to get me to go back into the school when I saw my Dad running down the block. I’d never seen him scared before but he was that day.

    I love Karen Chance’s books and am looking forward to the contest!!

11. Yay Fury’s Kiss… marked on my calendar.

    Most bizarre happening in high school? Got invited to a party once by a fellow student. Showed up in my usual torn jeans, nuclear explosion haircut and army trench (it was the 80’s) and found out that party was formal, with my buddy’s parents and their friends in formal gowns/suits. I waltzed in (underage, natch) with a large bag of pretzels and a 6-pack of Wildberry cooler. The parents were cool they promised to refrigerate my booze (which I never saw again) and they put my pretzel offering in a beautiful cut crystal bowl in the centre of the catered buffet table. Sweet people. So awkward.

12. I’ll go back to the earliest bizarre memory of school I have- kindergarten. I know, hard to believe I can even remember that long ago! My class had won a treat for something…who knows what. So, my teacher was giving us all green mint filled Oreos. It must have been around St. Patrick’s Day. Anyway as she starts handing them out and kids start eating them, a couple little girls start screaming. The Oreo filling had little BUGS all on them! Gross! The little girls were all freaking out, but mad at the same time because now we weren’t getting Oreos. I’ve never eaten a colored/mint Oreo in my life since then.

13. My most bizarre memory of high school would be high school history 1st period. The teacher was way too laid back! He let us get away with flying paper airplanes across the room, so we graduated to lighting them on fire. When that didn’t bother him we decided to move our desks into a circle and proceeded to build a mini bonfire! Nope, he didn’t blink, just went right on lecturing!! Totally crazy, right??

    I look forward to Fury’s Kiss, I have somewhat of a vampire addiction! I blame my mother… she had me reading Stephen King by the time I was 8 or 9 years old…Salem’s Lot was my favorite! :-)

14. OH MAN… I’m so excited for Fury’s Kiss to come out… date marked on calander!!!

    I suppose one of the most bizarre memories i have from high school is not when my History teacher was introducing him self to us and explained he was slightly crazy… and the proceeded to throw a desk across the room and brake into laughter or the day he sent a football hurling past my head during a class discussion(thankfully he missed my head). Or the very nice transfer student who kept quarters in his ears. I think my most bizarre memory would have to be when i went into the library to study and ran into a friend sitting with a guy at a study table at the back of the library and i sat down only to come to the realization of what was going on under the table was nothing i had ever had to study for school before so i politely and inconspicuously as i could got out of there as soon as i could!!! Dory her self would be impressed with the speed i used to high tail it out of there!

15. The most bizarre thing would be when we girls, at a school getaway, took all the boys shoes, tied them together with the laces, and strung them up in the flag pole LOL Too bad it rained during the night, so in the morning when the teacher noticed this *head shake*
    He wasn´t amused.

    Best wishes, Linda

16. Lets see I guess my most Bizarre school memory was when my Physic’s teacher decided that since, I have so many school activities outside of the normal school day i didn’t have to do any class work or homework and he graded my just off of my test scores. Which ended up being so high as i graded other students class work and homework during class. Looking back I think he just didn’t want me to fail, I was in way over my head because of the extra’s i’d flat out miss 35-45 days a year. It’s hard to make up that much work.

17. I was home-schooled, right? Sometimes with other home-schoolers, sometimes by myself. This time I was with others and we were working on 6th grade English. Under the desk right in front of me, was this black ribbon – I thought it was one of the other girls’ and I had never seen a black ribbon before. I lifted the lid of my desk – to get out of it – and grabbed the ribbon. Immediately the ribbon curled into a tight coil in my hand and little eyes glared at me, naturally I squeaked and dropped it, then stood on my chair. The snake landed as if it had been splattered – sprawled out – before quickly jerking back into a coil again.
    By this time I had everyone’s attention and they all jumped out of their chairs to have a look when I said, “Ew, I picked up a snake.” One of the boys rolled up his book to use it as a bat but one of the other girls reprimanded him, that the books were expensive and they hadn’t photocopied that one. Another boy came rushing out of the bathroom with a different rolled up book, “Don’t worry,” he chattered excitedly, “This isn’t a school book.” It wasn’t. It was the porn book that we all knew was hidden, probably by a teen, in the bathroom under a wood plank. And he got the snake out of the house with that while someone else came with a tennis racket. And I don’t know where the teacher was.

18. A bizarre yet hilarious memory from school happened during band camp (go figure). A trombone player who is quirky and up for a good time, who previously told me he liked the smell of permanent markers, said, “Hey, I wonder if we used enough duct tape could I stick to the wall?” And, armed with a couple rolls of duct tape, a number of band students got this boy to stand on a chair so they could tape him to the wall. This took quite a while to complete and when they asked about his arms and legs, which were bare, he said that it was fine; it was for a good cause. When they felt there was enough duct tape on him, the dragged the chair from under his feet. We watched, in a confused awe as, for a few seconds, he dangled in thin air braced to the wall by a mountain of duct tape. And then, he fell. The poor guy didn’t yell out as people tried to delicately take the tape off his body. I still have pictures of the process and end result somewhere.

19. My most bizarre memory is walking in to the school corridor to find a chicken casually standing in the middle of the hall. Some of the sixth formers had set it loose, and I followed it up a set of stairs and into a classroom until the janitor came and carried it away in a box :’)

20. My most bizarre high school memory is probably having the principal call my mother because she thought my Faith No More T-shirt meant I was suicidal. LOL.

21. My most bizarre memory still makes me feel a little sick. During Chemistry a boy tried to remove his own fingernails – yes plural! He removed most of the visible part of one nail relatively easily if not painlessly and to add to the weirdness one of the girls decided to wash off the fingernail put a hole in it and put in on on her necklace.

22. The most bizarre was in my high school spanish class we had to present an entire essay in spanish on a topic and there were no limitations really so I made a whole report on the care and breeding of camels, I bet therea are rules now in place for that. Still got full credit ;)

23. The most bizarre thing I can remember, is on the last day of grade eight (last day in my elementary school) I was walking to my friend’s house, going past the school, when my vice principle comes running out and drags me inside. Turns out there was some guy running around shooting people in my neighborhood. But at the moment I thought she was a wee bit crazy.

24. Let’s see the most bizarre event that I can remember was when I was in fourth grade. My teacher Mr. Leonard was teaching math and asking questions and one of our smart-mouth kids got one wrong, as punishment to that kid the teacher went and got some duct tape from his desk, went to the kids desk, told the kid to stand up, and then proceeded to wrap tape around the kid. By then most of us were laughing hysterically and holding on to our desks for support but then the teacher took it a step further by picking the kid up and depositing him in the trash. At this point the entire class was laughing our butts off (including the thrown away kid). It was even more funny when he decided to try and get out of the trash. He had to rock the trash back and forth so that his feet (which were sticking out of one side) could land on the floor. In trying to do this he only managed to topple himself over. Once he was down he wiggled himself out like a worm and tried to use what little arm movement he had to unwrap himself. While the kid was trying to unwrap himself the teacher got the class to settle down a bit and told us to concentrate on the lesson and started teaching again, though all of us would glance back at the kid to check his progress from time to time.

25. you’ve got some awesome school memories !
    For the most bizarre, I should let readers decide bs I haven’t sorted it out yet.

    In my elementary school, the bathrooms were in the basement, which was very poorly lighted, with a floor of tiny tiles and not quite there cleanliness, and in the earlier years we had to go in all at once, because no one went down there alone. In fact, it was forbidden. So of course it became a ritual for the higher grades, fourth of fifth graders to sneak in when nobody paid attention. The habt was then to hold pissing contests. Literally, and the girls too. No one ever caught us.