Story Number 2626 is an interesting enough number to deviate from fiction into truth – as is customary on this blog! Today’s story is about what could be one of the more memorable things that has happened to me!
I was a teacher and house master at a large boarding school for boys – mainly sons of farmers from isolated areas, but the school had some local day students as well. The dormitory area of my responsibility catered for about 120 sixteen year old young men.
It was in fact a dark and stormy night. I was fast asleep and at about 2 in the morning my door opened, the light was switched on, and a boy appeared in his pyjamas covered in mud from top to bottom. He wasn’t from my dormitory, but was a day student who lived with his parents about a mile away. He said, “I’m sorry to disturb you, but my parents have just been shot.”
(To be continued…)
Weave a Web 
Will reality be more incredible than fiction (as is usually the case)?
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Too true!
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Oh my goodness. And, how polite was that young man, as he relayed the terrible news.
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Yes he was most polite!
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Wow! Way to create a cliffhanger!
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I didn’t create it!!!!
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Hmm…okay. Way to tell a cliffhanger!
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A mere Day Boy? ‘Come back during school hours Boy!’
(On another note, I read the obit of an old teacher, one I’d refused to learn from back in the day. Now I have a lot more respect for the profession than I did as a very irritating student. It’s a little late now, but ‘sorry Keith.’)
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Yes – we were pretty cruel to some teachers – the worst maybe was Mr Cockburn. His nickname was Hotrod.
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Absolutely perfectly cruel, as kids will do. We had a teacher, whose name given name eludes me just now, but when he was wound up like a top and started to spin around and berate us sure he lived up to his nickname ‘Spitfire.’
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That one is a real cliffhanger.
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Hopefully it shall continue for a few days!
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Well this is interesting! I’m looking forward to the continuation. I love your stories…but your real life is pretty interesting Bruce!
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I can’t make up my real life – unfortunately Max! Otherwise I’d be a rock star!
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You don’t need to make anything up…your real life is interesting enough.
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Now then, that makes for interesting…
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OMG, and I am waiting impatiently for what happened next!
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What?!! I need to read the next one now.
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Wow, that was quite an opening.
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Yikes! The good thing about falling behind on my blog reading is that I don’t need to wait til tomorrow to find out what happened.
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LOL!
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And this is why I am sometimes grateful to fall behind on reading your posts so I have to catch up several at once. Yikes!
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I hope you are not a “read the last page first” person!
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I’m not. I experienced this one in the order you intended.
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Excellent. You are not alone in being able to read them all at once!
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