Episode 111: I spent every Friday of tenth grade in my homeroom teacher's detention and twenty years later another mom in the pickup line asked if I was one of the Friday kids
Submitted by Toby — Fort Wayne, Indiana. 38. Mr. Hollis was my homeroom teacher for all four years at North Side, and from the fall of tenth grade to the end of junior year I had Friday detention with him almost every week. I always told it as a funny thing. I was not a bad kid. I was a late kid. Three tardies got you a Friday, and I lived on the far side of the river and my mom worked first shift at the plant and I was never, not once, there for the bell. Friday detention ran from 2:45 to 4:00 in room 114. The thing everybody remembers about it is the binder. A navy three-ring binder, the…
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