The moderators and administrators here always find a way to get our dark secrets out. Haha, this time around they want to see how stubborn we were in school. I have been reading some nice punishments so far and decided to share my own story.
When I first reported to my high school, I was fortunately put in a dormitory where my cousin was. He was a senior then so I thought I would not have a lot of issues with bullies and stuff. I was right partly but that didn’t stop me from getting into trouble.
Because of chores every fresher had to do before leaving the dormitory for class, I decided to cheat the system and avoid my own share of the work. I would wake up very early like 1am and by 2am I would be done with my ironing and bathing and out of the dormitory. Hehe, 2am was way to early for me but the lady me had to do what I could do to escape these chores.
It worked for a long time and because no one complained, I thought I was being very smart. Little did I know one of the boys who would turn out to be one of my best mates in my final year was noticing what I was doing. In the same first year, he reported me to my house prefects that I was not taking part in any of the house duties we were all supposed to do. That is where my problems started.
It was on a weekend when he did this to me and the level 100s were all as usual scrubbing the rooms and cleaning the windows. And as usual, I wasn’t present. I had continued my usual routine and run to the mosque to rest when everyone was busy at work. I slept from around 2am and woke up to pray when it was time for the morning prayers. I slept after prayers and at 8am, I woke up and returned to the hostel.
They always finished before 8am because they started the work early. I as usually thinking I was successful again, walked leisurely to the hostel with a big grin on my face. Immediately I got to the dormitory it was as if they were waiting for me. I was called by the house prefect and he told me they had noticed I was skipping all the house chores. At moments like these, you cannot lie and there’s nothing you can say or do to save your life. I just had to look pitiful and accept whatever I had coming.
I said I was sorry for that and I would do better but boy, my punishment was ready and waiting for me. He brought me out of the prefect’s room and showed me the staircase and the long corridor we had. My punishment was to scrub the staircase and the corridor. At face value, this did not seem like a big task but if you know boys, you know they do not pity you when you try to be wise.
They kept walking up and and down the staircase and made my work very difficult. I would scrub one and before I could move to the next, it would already be dirty. I went to scrub the corridor and it was the same thing these boys were doing to me. It was as if the universe was after me and they all planned to do that to me.
scrubbing and mopping
It was almost time for dining so I decided I was going to stop so when they all go to dine, I would hurriedly do the work. This was a good plan because they usually kept long in the dining hall. Dining was compulsory but you weren’t punished for not going. I was there scrubbing when the prefect came and said it was dining time and I was not in the hall. And for that, I would be punished again. I explained and he said it wasn’t an excuse so I should finish the scrubbing and see him for another punishment.
I just knew it was going to be this way and I would have to walk on a fine line from there on. Nonetheless, I learnt a lot from that punishment to help my mates and not try to be smart.
Hehe did that stop me from running away from work, you will have to see me in chambers for that one.
Thank you.