It seemed he was looking for someone in particular. The other boys agreed and I said that he didn’t say anything to us and just got back down and walked out.
She accepted this explanation and without a word, she turned and walked back into the office. There was a sigh of relief and we went back to reading our books. After a few minutes one of the kids turned to me and said he couldn’t believe I concocked that story. I said something along the lines that she believed it and we didn’t get strapped like she threatened to do.
Another time I wrote an excuse for a boy who was absent form school one day and was asked by my English teacher if I knew anything about a certain she was handed as the writing seemed to be remarkably similar in style to mine.
She threatened me with the strap but I just denied writing it and even knowing the boy.
We weren’t in the same year so our paths wouldn’t have crossed as I pointed out to her. She never thought him being the friend of a friend though. This incident did however put an end to a lucrative business in the “please excuse my son for being absent from school notes”. From then on it was back to buying my own smokes: the prefered currency for my note writing services.