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mocha1 said..Hey Stephen, I went to Sorrento Primary too, Miss Holbrooks textas were cool for softies...Mr Winter gave better Tatts with the old hard dodgeball
pow right in the face, no sorry just you're out
starting to slide off topic a bit...........
Mocha - were you there when we were messing around with a parachute?
A couple of us visited our favourite toy shop [Wellington Surplus] and bought / scammed a time expired parachute and harness with a bag full of coins [bottle deposits], We took it to school, strapped a volunteer unknowing crash test dummy into it and tied the harness to a loooong rope.
A combination of around 20 kids towing + the seabreeze resulted in an airborne kid who wasnt looking forwards to the eventual landing.
We were chuffed, teachers were either $hitting themselves seeing what we were up to [this time

] or pretty damn impressed.
Headmaster and a couple of other teachers came running down to spoil our fun - with one teacher giving us a stern lecture, while we were giggling like schoolkids and pointing at the headmaster, who was behind her putting on the harness and organising his turn
A few minutes later the boss was up in the air.
As for dodgeball - I copped a few hits in the shins - and can still feel the lumps
I try and forget the times I got trashed at British Bulldog,
It's a fun game - but never ended well if you were one of the last ones on the run and eventually got stomped on by 8765659786 kids.
[sometimes it doesnt pay to be a fast runner]
Left Sorrento for Greenwood - no idea how I managed to survive that place.