tuckermitchell
Saturday, October 14th, 2006, 8:42 PM
So I'm a junior in high school at a not so big school. I was 4 days from being revelled in a popularity contest known as the Student Body elections, and was just about to be sworn in as my high schools next president. We are in Junior (soon to be senior) class meeting electing our class representatives and I was personally full of all kinds of ego.
We're in a second floor classroom in a building built in the 1940's. Windows open from the bottom and hinged at the top with no screens. Had the standard 3 dollar mini blinds covering them. This is also where I should mention I was still a little high from a lunch hour "snack".
Somehow,

blinds get ripped off the window. I propose that since the teacher is not yet there, we hang them from the window lock and see how far we can swing them back and forth. Of course I forgot the fact that this classroom was directly above the principals office.
When he walked into the room I was actually hanging half out the window. I was proverbially caught with my "hand in the cookie jar". I was still pretty quick with my convo with the principal, in front of my whole class of course.
"Tucker, what do you think you are doing?" he asked.
"Giving a physics lesson, Why?" I retort, as I remove myself from the window.
"Right, what lesson is this?" he asked knowing the most science I had completed in school was the obligatory biology.
"Swinging big **** out of windows" too which I was showered in laughs.
After the meeting in his office, the call to my parents and tonguelashing of a "disappointed principal" I was sent home to return the following day and spend the whole day in in-school suspension.
This "in-school suspension" at my school was spent in a small room, about 8x8 feet with a standard desk in the middle of the room and a counter against one wall with a working sink for who knows what. I always assumed it was for cleaning up after a "study" session between teachers or students. A night of drinking and plenty of ideas had me show up to school with a couple of screwdrivers, phillips and flat.
After lunch I went about taking all the screws out of everything. I would leave a couple in slightly to make sure that things looked normal when touched but definitely would fall apart to any touch. Everything was done including the doorknob to the door to get in.
I took off about 15 minutes early, as the door was to the main hall and there were no teachers to see me leave. I pulled the door shut and hauled *** out of there knowing the trouble that I would be in if I hung around. The next day was great too.
I get to school with a pocket tape recorder. He obviously immediately pulls me into his office and begins berating me.
Some actual phrases he used were:
"You are a loser. Just because these idiot kids voted for you to be the president doesn't mean you are better than them. It just means that even a village full of idiots needs a leader."
"I will own your life if you cross me again. You have no idea how much control over your life I have within the reach of my fingers."
"You're gonna be just like your father. A nobody from Idaho with no future without a job." (On a sidenote I thought this was the funniest comment of all as my real dad, this man never knew. My stepdad, whom he was referencing didn't have a job, perse. He was a retired steel plant foreman who created a line of hunting stoves and accessories that has made probably 5 times the money this principal has over the span of his whole life. Obviously the kind of guy you don't want to pattern your life around)
So, I get outta the room and off to my two week out of school suspension with my little tape. I wait off the rest of year from bringing the tape back to school. Outside it was becoming quite the spectacle, as figured since this was such a small town. People were talking about the tape and I was walking around town pretty damn proud of myself. This principal tried to get me expelled for my senior year along with trying to take away my presidency. Teachers who liked me stood up for me though, and to this day I thank you Mr. Barber and Ms. Vezina for loving the humor.
I kept that tape all year, knowing it would come in handy sooner or later. On the day of my graduation, almost 13 months later was when I could use it in my favor. I had to speak at the graduation for 15 minutes. I am quite an accomplished speaker when I prepare, but for this I thought the tape would be enough.
After about a 5 minute introduction thanking everyone with the generic pleasantries, I open up telling some history of me in that school and what I thought about things. Of course this story began to be retold. After the aforementioned dialogue was retold, I reach into my pocket, pull out the recorder. Stop, turn around and wink at this principal.
In what I can say was only a stroke of karma brought on directly from Big Guns upstairs, This principal stood up and yelled "wait a minute". Only problem was his trousers weren't used to his fat *** moving so fast and they split right down the seam in the rear just like in a bad 80's movie. The teachers, sitting around him and the students sitting to the left of him heard and saw this happen and began to laugh. Which brought in the some 500 or so in the auditorium to laugh at the sight of his face on the big screen camera.
This is probably one of the best things to happen in my life. If I ever get around to it I will figure out how to get the video off VHS to my PC to post on Youtube. Hope you guys enjoy.