At school, I seemed to get into small amounts of trouble quite often. Nothing grand or spectacular, but if there was naughtiness, cheekiness or irreverence, I was usually involved.

Culprits like me were processed in a particular way. We were told to stand under the clock adjacent to the headmaster’s office. Presently, the headmaster would emerge. Sometimes he’d send me back to class with a quick admonishment, other times I’d get the lowered eyebrows and the deep voice “come into my office.” These were mind-games. I’d stand there for an indeterminate amount of time, not knowing my fate. Would it be a walk away or a confrontation? And if the latter, what kind of confrontation? School folklore suggested that he was a former hockey player with the wrist power to administer a terrible beating. Maybe, but it never happened to me or anyone I knew.

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