Here come the 3rd graders....

The year was 1978. We were in the 2nd grade, and I had Mrs. Askew. Weston had just moved back to Corinth. Perhaps not many of you remember this, but Weston and his family moved to Nashville for a year or two....around the time we were in kindergarten and 1st grade. They moved back, and it was just in time for 2nd grade. Anyway, as usual, one day Weston and I were acting up in class, and as a result, Mrs. Askew made us go and stand outside in the hall. Weston and I get up and go out there. It's funny, because this just came to me....I remember the teachers would send you out into the hall, but it wasn't to just stand there, outside the room, in the hall. You had to turn around and face that wall. Then it was clearly obvious to EVERYONE that you weren't waiting for someone outside in the hall...you were in "trouble." Any time you saw a kid in the hall on the wall and facing the wall, you knew he was some kind of trouble.

ANYWAY....Weston and I go out into the hall, turn around, and face the wall. We know we're in trouble, and I suppose it was embarrassing to a degree, but we were also out there by ourselves and there was no one really around, so we were kinda having some fun. You know...giggling, making funny noises, trying to make each other laugh, etc. This was all fine and dandy, until something happened. You see, Mrs. Askew's room was pretty much in the middle of the building. As you entered the 2nd grade building from the main entrance, Mrs. Caruth's office was the first room on the right, and then you came to the main big hallway. You could turn right and go down past many of the school rooms and then out the doors (where the 4th grade picture was taken that I posted about earlier) and down to the 3rd grade building. If you kept going straight as you passed Mrs. Caruth's office, you would cross the hall and then go through some doors to the 4th grade building. And if you made a left as you passed Mrs. Caruth's office, you could go down the hallway to the auditorium and the caffeteria. See the drawing I made below (not to scale, obviously...but you'll get the idea)...the red X is where Weston and I were standing...

As you can see from the diagram, you had to walk down through the main hall of the 2nd grade building to get to the lunch room. So no matter what grade you were in, that's the way you went. SO....back to the story. Weston and I are cutting up in the hall, but still a little embarrassed and worried because we didn't know what Mrs. Askew was going to do or say to us when she finally came out to confront us. OR, what would happen if Mrs. Caruth came out of her office and saw us in the hall. It seemed that we were in the clear, when all of a sudden, I heard a ton of footsteps coming from the other end of the hall. We turned our heads just a little and looked, and I said, "Oh no.....it's the third graders!!!" We then turned back to face the wall, put our hands up over our faces, and hugged the wall so as to try and conceal our identities. But it was too late. As almost each and every 3rd grader passed us in the hall, they laughed, pointed, and totally harrassed us. Talk about humiliation. The entire 3rd grade class walked by while we were out there in the hall, and I literally thought we were gonna die of embarrassment.

Weston, do you remember this?