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During my 2nd year I was in a dormitory with 5 others. we were all 12-13 years old.
It was after lights out one night, no one could sleep. we had just piled in from a fire alarm. One of the girls in the girls block thought it would be funny to spray deodorant into the smoke detector and at midnight the big brass bell in our dorm started chiming and we reluctantly, bleary eyed threw on some clothes and filed down the stairwell to the dining hall. It was cold, drizzling and after sneaking a peek at the fire panel, we knew which dormitory it was in the girls block.
The 2 boarding houses had a fire escape corridor between them (boys to girls block) with a lever to unlock the door hid behind a smash glass plate. After a while it had quietened down a bit, we sat in the middle of the dorm with a torch plotting how to retaliate.
There was a history of retaliation between the girls and the boys block, one summer we had a massive water fight but that’s another story....
We hatched a plan. It was an attack. We gathered together 6 bic biros, removed the nib and ink vestibule and pulled off the end. wallah! a home made pea shooter. Now for some peas. We delved into one of the guys art draw (he was a good artist) and took out 10 sheets of A3 paper and started to rip them into little pieces and rolling them into little balls. We got dressed into our shorts and filled our pockets with the ammo.
I had my bike at the school which had a toolkit with a Phillips screwdriver in it. The screws to the smash glass panel of the door were Philips heads so we undid them all and sneaked through as soon as we got in we loaded our bic and chewed the ammo to get it moist and then fired. The girls woke up to find themselves under attack with moist bits of paper flying around sticking to walls, duvets, the floor and them. they started screaming. We stopped tellign them to shut up or well all be in toruble but it was too late. We heard the boarding mistresses door creak open. "shit, miss" we looked at the floor and walls, all coverd, we wouldn;t have time to clean it so we threw down the pea shooters and told the girls "Think of something" as we didn't have time to go back thought the doors as it meant passing where the boarding mistress was coming from so we hid. 1 guy managed to squeeze himself in one of the large draws under one persons bed, 2 hid in wardrobes while myself and the other 2 climbed onto window ledges and shut the curtains in front of us.
The light went on and we stood still in silence as the boarding mistress gave out a bollocking to the girls and made them clean everything up. we waited there for 40 minutes until she was satisfied and left. Our cover was nearly blown when one of the guys hiding in the wardrobe couldn’t hold onto a fart and it echoed in the confines of the tight space he was in. One of the girls god bless her admitted it was her and had to see the matron in the morning for some medicine for it. (Poor lass it bunged her up for a week so we bought her an ice-cream with our little pocket money)
It was a close call, if we would have been court we could have been suspended or even worse expelled.
The girls took the punishment well and never did set the fire alarm off again on purpose. To this day I have been good friends with the girl who’s window ledge I was hiding on and went to her wedding a few years back, just yesterday we were reminiscing about our days and the "secret Pea shoot mission" to which I have shared with you today...
I have many other stories so you can all choose which one you want, i'll stick a poll on.
It was after lights out one night, no one could sleep. we had just piled in from a fire alarm. One of the girls in the girls block thought it would be funny to spray deodorant into the smoke detector and at midnight the big brass bell in our dorm started chiming and we reluctantly, bleary eyed threw on some clothes and filed down the stairwell to the dining hall. It was cold, drizzling and after sneaking a peek at the fire panel, we knew which dormitory it was in the girls block.
The 2 boarding houses had a fire escape corridor between them (boys to girls block) with a lever to unlock the door hid behind a smash glass plate. After a while it had quietened down a bit, we sat in the middle of the dorm with a torch plotting how to retaliate.
There was a history of retaliation between the girls and the boys block, one summer we had a massive water fight but that’s another story....
We hatched a plan. It was an attack. We gathered together 6 bic biros, removed the nib and ink vestibule and pulled off the end. wallah! a home made pea shooter. Now for some peas. We delved into one of the guys art draw (he was a good artist) and took out 10 sheets of A3 paper and started to rip them into little pieces and rolling them into little balls. We got dressed into our shorts and filled our pockets with the ammo.
I had my bike at the school which had a toolkit with a Phillips screwdriver in it. The screws to the smash glass panel of the door were Philips heads so we undid them all and sneaked through as soon as we got in we loaded our bic and chewed the ammo to get it moist and then fired. The girls woke up to find themselves under attack with moist bits of paper flying around sticking to walls, duvets, the floor and them. they started screaming. We stopped tellign them to shut up or well all be in toruble but it was too late. We heard the boarding mistresses door creak open. "shit, miss" we looked at the floor and walls, all coverd, we wouldn;t have time to clean it so we threw down the pea shooters and told the girls "Think of something" as we didn't have time to go back thought the doors as it meant passing where the boarding mistress was coming from so we hid. 1 guy managed to squeeze himself in one of the large draws under one persons bed, 2 hid in wardrobes while myself and the other 2 climbed onto window ledges and shut the curtains in front of us.
The light went on and we stood still in silence as the boarding mistress gave out a bollocking to the girls and made them clean everything up. we waited there for 40 minutes until she was satisfied and left. Our cover was nearly blown when one of the guys hiding in the wardrobe couldn’t hold onto a fart and it echoed in the confines of the tight space he was in. One of the girls god bless her admitted it was her and had to see the matron in the morning for some medicine for it. (Poor lass it bunged her up for a week so we bought her an ice-cream with our little pocket money)
It was a close call, if we would have been court we could have been suspended or even worse expelled.
The girls took the punishment well and never did set the fire alarm off again on purpose. To this day I have been good friends with the girl who’s window ledge I was hiding on and went to her wedding a few years back, just yesterday we were reminiscing about our days and the "secret Pea shoot mission" to which I have shared with you today...
I have many other stories so you can all choose which one you want, i'll stick a poll on.
