When girls were caned or slippered on the bum at school, three strokes appears to be the number frequently administered.
I hated School with a passion from 13 – 16 and each day seemed like torture and couldn’t wait for the day I left, until then I had to make the most of it. I remember vividly getting 3 strokes of the cane on my bum, when I stupidly admitted to something I hadn’t done, like smashing eggs over a girl’s head, it was another gang member, who happened to be the ‘cock’ of the school. Mum gave permission for me to be punished and thereby making me hate the system even more.