44/365 Karie
Karie returned from spring vacation refusing to remove her floppy hat. The teacher didn’t argue. At lunch she terrified sixth-grade girls by describing the crazed hairdresser who, tripping on acid, had butchered her hair. In reality, her best friends’ Doberman had shredded her head.
posted by - Christine at 6:53 AM
4 Comments:
it seems fitting that her horror was turned into another kind of horror in the telling of the story (hey - whatever it takes to get you through the day)
at least, that's my two cents
Oh. Poor girl! But I'm wondering was it loyalty kept her from telling the truth? Fear?
It was loyalty. Her best friend already felt horrible.
As it happened a bunch of boys (who had heard the salon story) grabbed Karie's hat and played keep-away with it. Everyone could see the whole top of Karie's head was shaved and covered with stitches.
Now the girls were pissed at the boys so in that perfect pre-pubescent fashion they bought a bunch of femine napkins (which back then were two inches thick), from the girls' room vending machines. They scrawled "SUCKER" on them in red magic maker and stuck them in the boys' desks.
Eventually the teachers (this prank spanned three classrooms) found out which girls were responisble and they got a week's detention. Including Karie. The boys were not punished or ever reprimanded for their behavior. (a lot like one if indigo bunting's posts).
Wow. That is an INTENSE story (as if the beginning weren't intense enough).
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