s7eng

Online journal by Shawn England

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Prom Prank?

Some back story. When I was a Senior in High School, I got married. My wife was already out of school.

When Prom came up, the school had said that only Junior and Seniors could come. No one older or younger, so I planned on not going to prom. If I remember correctly it was the week going into prom, I was in English class. A girl in my class (name with held for her protection), was complaining that she had no one to go to prom with. A friend of mine chimed in and said "Shawn's isn't going, you could go with him" To this the girl laughed (probably at the fact I was married[at least I hope]). Then the whole class got into it saying it was mean of her to laughed at me. Even our teacher got involved saying "you'd feel real bad if he went home tonight and tried to kill himself".

So my twisted mind said "Shawn you should come to school tomorrow with bandages on your wrists to make it look like an attempted suicide". So at home I prepared some gauze bandages and fake blood (luckily I had a more than healthy interest in special effects and had the fake blood handy). I wore a long sleeved shirt to school the next day so that I could hide it until the appropriate moment.

I waited until everyone was in English class and things settled down and then I pulled up my sleeves. Everyone was laughing (except my victim) I said something like "see what you did?". The teacher asked my what I used to cut my wrist and my awesome comeback was an electric razor. This brought on more laughter from the class.
After class she came up to me and said "I can't believe YOU did that!"