I was given the ruler for lying about why I was late to school. It`s a long story but basically, I turned up at school probably a good half an hour after the start of lessons, tear-stained and obviously upset. When asked by the teacher, who was not the regular one but one of the many stand-in ones we had that year due to the normal teacher having had an accident, what the problem was, I sort of gave her the impression that my nonexistent relative was unwell!! This was a very religious school we prayed for everything and anything so obviously the class said prayers for my `sick relative`