w00t! go you! Hee! Thanks. It was truly a great moment for geekkind. An entire hall full of stunned people looking down on the tyrant lying at their feet. She never had any sort of cachet again.
As for privacy, I was just the opposite - I'd stay at other people's houses and get claustrophobic when they closed the doors. In one sense we'd never really had it so noone missed it. And yet we respected each other's space almost more than we might have otherwise - you walked briskly down the hallway and didn't dwell outside other people's rooms.
I think you have to remember (or maybe I have to tell you?) that schools here are single sex, not coed, for the most part. I went to Wellington Girls' College. It makes it a lot easier to be ignorant about the birds and bees for longer. It also added to the humiliation for A and the mythic status for me, that the "incident" happened at Wellington Boys' College.
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Date: 2004-04-11 01:22 am (UTC)Hee! Thanks. It was truly a great moment for geekkind. An entire hall full of stunned people looking down on the tyrant lying at their feet. She never had any sort of cachet again.
As for privacy, I was just the opposite - I'd stay at other people's houses and get claustrophobic when they closed the doors. In one sense we'd never really had it so noone missed it. And yet we respected each other's space almost more than we might have otherwise - you walked briskly down the hallway and didn't dwell outside other people's rooms.
I think you have to remember (or maybe I have to tell you?) that schools here are single sex, not coed, for the most part. I went to Wellington Girls' College. It makes it a lot easier to be ignorant about the birds and bees for longer. It also added to the humiliation for A and the mythic status for me, that the "incident" happened at Wellington Boys' College.