I did not go looking for trouble, in most cases it was just that I
was incapable of shutting up or taking the extra
'should-I-really-say-the-thing-that-I-just-thought-of' check. As far
as I know I have been kicked out of every single class in elementary
and middle school at one time or another. I didn't make it through a
class un-kicked until jr. high. One day the girl whom had given me
the condom and I were doing a little too much joking in class and we
both got kicked out to the hall to stop distracting the other kids.
While we were out in the hall we were supposed to be quite and not
talk or our punishment may be increased. We started joking about what
we should do to really make the teacher mad and I said it would be
funny to sing the then popular 2 Live Crew tribute to the freedom of
speech, specifically about sex and ho's, afforded by the first
amendment. It was called 'Banned in the USA' and doesn't hold up
under the scrutiny of time it turns out. The girl said that would be
funny and I told her I knew all of the words and so I started rapping
it a little and then a little more, and a little more loudly than I
had intended and the teacher across the hall heard me and came out to
yell at me but I had not seen her so I finnished up my rap while she
serupticously listened and was offended. She grabbed me and the
teacher who had kicked me out of class and we all went down to talk
to the principle about why I was loudly singing a rebellion song by
the notorious porno-rap rap group 2 Live Crew in the hall during
class. When you say it like that it does sound like I was rebelling
and showing off and inviting conflict but that was not the case. My
mom was called and mercifully was not reached and I was set in the
room besides the principals office to sort PTA flyers and I assume I
was forgotten about because at the end of the school day the bell
rang all the kids left and I was still running the mimeograph and
sorting out papers when I noticed the school was very quite and only
the janitors were still in the building. I gave the coast a good look
and when I saw it was clear I quick walked out of the building
keeping close to the walls and then runnign across the open lawn to
the shortcut home. The next day I faked sick to miss school just to
make sure the heat was dying down and then when I went back the next
Monday there was no mention of my trouble so I just laid low for a
couple of days to let things simmer down and keep me on the right
side of the law.
