Humor
The School Play
One of the main attractions at Carriere High School was the yearly "play". The drama teacher, or as we called her "the English teacher" would select a play for the group of seniors to perform. There would be lots of practicing until everyone learned their parts perfectly. These plays were performed on Friday nights so the students, teachers, and bus drivers could sleep late on Saturday morning if the play lasted into the night.
As a Sophomore I was not allowed to act in the play. Obviously they had not heard of my outstanding performance at Caesar Grammar School as Robin Redbreast, the Forerunner of Spring, or my portrayal of Digger Odale, the friendly Undertaker. The acting was usually left to the seniors and a few juniors who the rest of us called the "teachers pets". The freshmen and sophomores were delegated to the audience where we waited patiently for the "actors" to make a mistake. We were never disappointed.
The students from the Caesar and Salem communities had to ride an old rattletrap yellow school bus to the High School at Carriere, none of the students at that time being able to afford an automobile. After we got to the school on this particular Friday night, instead of going into the auditorium to listen and watch the play, Tater and I decided to visit the classrooms upstairs. The classrooms were connected to the auditorium, and the second floor was above the auditorium. The lights from the security poles outside put enough light in the room for us to see. A person could go out the window of a classroom and be on the roof of the auditorium. We were chewing tobacco and spitting the tobacco juice on the blackboards and watching it run down when we heard someone coming up the stairs. The entire student body in the high school had attuned themselves to the methodical, steady walk of Mr. Elton Bond, our high school principal. There was no doubt in our mind that it was Mr. Bond slowly coming up the stairs. We realized instantly that he would not accept our explanation of running an experiment on the gravitational pull of the earth's surface on tobacco juice when splattered against a slate black board. I could just imagine trying to explain what we were doing up in the classroom, at night, with the lights out, while the play was going on--"You see Mr. Bond, Tater here got this great urge to do an experiment on the pull of gravity, uh, what do you mean why am I green". I knew instantly that excuse would not do and I could see him in my minds eye pulling that long, black belt from around his waist. Not knowing what to do, I swallowed my tobacco, not wanting to get caught with the evidence in my mouth and with tobacco juice draining down the black board. No evidence, no crime. I immediately became sorry and repentive for the deeds that I had been involved in, realizing that if Mr. Bond caught us we would probably have to ride home standing up instead of setting down. He was not one who took the breaking of school rules lightly. Also the stigma of having to clean the blackboards and the floors underneath the blackboard as other students no doubt would be watching and laughing. And besides that, my dad would be waiting in the front yard when I got home. News travels fast in the Caesar community. Not a very good picture to me.
We hurriedly crawled out a window and ran across the auditorium roof and down a fire escape ladder attached to the side of the building. We went into the auditorium, as if nothing happened. This was the moment in time when I really felt sorry for the things that I had done. I believe the Bible says something like this "Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man (Mt 15:11(KJV). At that moment I am sure it wasn't talking about tobacco. I swore right then I would never chew tobacco again--and I never did.
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