Law of the Playground

Presenting your teachers with a bundle of lumpen, shit-filled keks as proof that you are ill.

Generally, fingers down the throat or a note will suffice. Actually producing tangible turds is considered a little much.

Sarcaustic

Another way of avoiding swimming for girls was to say you had your period. When you did so the teacher would put a ‘P’ by your name. Presumably to keep track of the amount of girls having four periods a month to avoid going into the foul outdoor pool, which was full of dead bees and piss.

jenny h