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Before recently, you had to inform the parents of a detention after school any longer than 10 minutes and it had to be on a separate day. They can now keep you back as long as the parents are notified. We dont do lunch time breaks, because my school has a shorter day than most (2.30PM finish instead of 3.30) but we have two 20 minute breaks instead of say a 20 minute and an hour or something such.

My yearbook award was "Spent more time in detention than in class" with a subtext "or hanging out in front of the girls locker room"

I rarely get detentions. Even when I do badly or I rebel, teachers like me so I get away with murder.

...wow, detentions have sure changed since I was in school.

Bear in mind there are probably a hundred thousand silly, unnecessarily nice EU regulations on detention of minors.

Seriously, they consider holding a student back after school hours "detention of a minor" now? When I was in school, detention meant losing the whole afternoon or a big chunk of your weekend.

Yep. Think of it: if we all abided by those silly regs, we would have grown up without "The Breakfast Club."

I won 'talks most, says least', most accident prone, most dramatic and another award in senior year. Ah, good times...

Well, no. No, they sucked. High school was not the best time of my life.

I got teacher's pet... I actively insulted my teacher in front of him, although previous years I was slightly, but not so much still... I just happened to know what buttons to press to get what I wanted.

I refused to show up for the picture for the yearbook as teacher's pet.

The featured article for today on Wikipedia is Star Trek the Motion Picture.

As I woke up this morning, I considered telling my wife that as I'm not Catholic, I can't in good conscience celebrate today's holiday which commemorates two early Christian martyrs (Valentine of Rome and Valentine of Terni.) Then, I further considered how much I enjoy being able to eat solid food and being free of a wheelchair, and decided to just keep my mouth shut and let the flowers get delivered.

Smart man.

Sadly, it's the only way Mikey. I hate hallmark holidays and once, long ago, tried the whole 'let's just do cards' thing and I think I figuratively paid for it for the rest of the week. These days, I just throw money at the problem. Twelve red roses, a box of chocolates....whatever I'll save the (to be fair) quite frequent thoughtful romantic stuff for when I spontaneously want to do it! Grrrrrrrrrrrr

My girlfriend of 2 years hates valentines day, she got angry at me the one time I got her a single rose.

Does she have a sister????????????