THE UNWRITTEN ‘RULES’ OF SCHOOL LIFE Part- I

THOU SHALT NOT WAIT FOR THE RECESS BELL TO FINISH THY TIFFIN BOX.

The aroma of the delicious mumma made food in the tiffin box often got the better of our temptation controlling mechanism. Little by little, starting from the zero period itself, the matter from the lunch box started vanishing. And the result was by the time the recess bell rang, the lunch boxes were empty!! Some classmates were even quicker, galloping even the tiffins of their friends before the recess bell.

THOU SHALT NOT START MAKING NOTEBOOKS BEFORE THE TEACHER ASKS THY TO.

‘Busy’ all the year with Facebook, we students kept procrastinating work until we were shot in the ear with that dreaded sentence, “No sitting in the classroom tomorrow without the notebook”. And then began the race against time with a little silent regret in heart, ‘wish I had done it before’. But the irony was, that we, the students were so poor at learning lessons that we didn’t prepare the next notebook until we got the warning again.

THOU SHALT NOT KEEP OUR THROATS PARCHED FOR A MOMENT AFTER THE PERIOD ENDS. WATERTAPS THE WAY!!

The effect of long classes (even if they are all of 35 minutes) seemed to be more on the throats of us students than the brains. And that was the reason we found almost half the school in queue for the ‘divine’ water taps just the second the periods ended. Entering class 2 minutes late was the bonus that was accompanied with it.

 

THOU SHALT NOT RETURN LIBRARY BOOKS BEFORE A HEFTY FINE IS CHARGED AGAINST THY NAME.

Books from library were precious..werent they? And who knows it better than the students. So precious they were that we didn’t wish to part with them at times. And so they decayed in our cupboards, until one fine day, we stumbled across them and hurriedly looked for the submission date on the first page. And within a minute, that ‘precious thing’ turned into a hole in pocket. And then began a whole new saga of running around the library, persuading the librarian to ‘bargain’. “Mam pakka next time se time par return karege”  was our standard response to those stern looks by the librarian.

THOU SHALT NOT CALL THE TEACHER IF SHE HASN’T REACHED THE CLASS YET

We loved and respect our teachers a lot. And we loved them even more when they understood us so well that they gave us those precious 5-10 minutes by coming late to the class. But then there was always one villain in this rosy scenario, often the topper of the class, who couldn’t stand the look of relief on our faces and would threaten to spoil the party. But as always, the majority prevailed. And what happened to the minority?? Well we all know don’t we..wink wink!!!

Want to read the part II as well?? Then  stay tuned.