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An ice cream van used to stop outside our school around 3.30pm-4pm. All the kids would queue up and buy something after school. The guy who owned the van had done this for at least the 3-4 years I'd been at the school and, as far as I know, hadn't been told to fuck off by any teachers.
So me and a friend grab ourselves a Coke after school from the ice cream van and walk home. We only lived about 10-15 minutes walk away. We're about halfway home when this car pulls alongside us and someone winds down the window to talk to us. It's a couple of teachers from our school! I didn't think much of it -- I knew they lived in the area and were probably just being sociable. But no!
We basically got a bollocking for drinking Coke while wearing a school uniform (this is the UK by the way). WTF?! We pointed out that no one had ever told us that drinking Coke while wearing school uniform was a criminal offence, that 99% of kids leaving the school would stop at the ice cream van (or some other store) on the way home to buy drinks and sweets, and besides it was the middle of the fucking summer, we'd just played football that afternoon, and we were pretty thirsty. The teachers didn't quite know how to respond to that, so they just told us to never do it again (yeah, right) and hurry on home.
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