Jamaica High School Chronicles: The Pen Foot Incident

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One day in second form, long, long ago one of the boys came to school with a new pen. He was proud of this pen and show it to almost everyone in the class. He was so proud of the pen that he refused to use it to write with fearing that it would run out of ink.

Later that day he raised the alarm that his beloved new pen was stolen, he was crying his eyes out trying to explain to Sir how one second he had the pen and the next second it was gone. Sir saw that he was so very upset, devastated that his beloved pen was taken and vowed that before the end of the school day he would be reunited his pen.

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Sir made a plea to the entire class to return the pen and if it was returned now, then that would be the end of it, no further actions would be taken. He even agreed to leave the classroom hoping someone would anonymously drop it on the floor but so such luck, which angered Sir greatly. It was then that we moved into the punishment phase, titled the “Wrath of Sir”. The entire class was taken outside in the hot sun and made to stand in a very regimental line. We would stay standing in the sun until whomever took the pen confessed to the crime and return it or anyone who knew who took the pen snitched out the guilty person.

One hour turned into two and still no one came forward. The sun was very hot, we were all thirsty and getting weaker by the minute, our little legs started to hurt, this was prison camp punishment at its very worse. Some of us in the line began to curse that the guilty party should return the pen because we were all suffering for something we did not do.

After about 3 hours Sir decided to change tactics, it was time for the search and frisk phase since honesty was never going to work. Each and every one of us would be search. Our desk and bags searched, our pockets turned out and patted down but that did not create the result Sir was hoping for. It was then that Sir issued the command to take off our shoes and hold it outwards in front of us. He then walked up to each of us and ordered us to turn it upside down.

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By the time he got to the end of the line with the last person remaining the order was giving for that person to turn over their shoes and Lo and Behold the stolen pen fell to the ground much to the delight of everyone especially the owner of the pen.

If you asked me if such and such a person went to school with me I would have trouble confirming because real names in high school means nothing and nicknames means everything, you had better know their aliases at school. Suffice to say from that day on and for the rest of his entire life, the person who stole the pen was called and is called to this very day “Pen-Foot”.

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