Michael Brereton:  

School Randa, You've requested comical high school stories. This school story doesn't belong to me, but a friend from England shared it over beer with me one night here in Bloomington, IN. This took place in a parochial boarding school, in the country north of London. Billy (not his real name) and Lorrie (not her real name) were in their very earliest teens, and still innocent. Boarding schools often include real work in their daily schedule of assignments, and this school did that. Billy and Lorrie were told to clean out the horse stalls in the school barn, and were left alone to complete their chore. Billy was a notorious class clown and Lorrie was already a blooming beauty. She sat perched on the wooden stall wall and attempted to get Billy to do all the work, and, lucky for her, he was a natural at being busy, and he happily complied. While Billy pitchforked horseshit and straw into a hand wagon, they jabberred and flirted. Lorrie wore one of those wrap around skirts from the '60s, and Billy was soon sweating profusely from his work. Lorrie was joking with her friend while perched on the wall, a...Expand for more