Playgroundlaw is back! Or was at least, briefly.

Here's a good one that I got by clicking 'random story'.

I actually believe this theory to be correct. At my school, it was strictly against the rules to try and leave the dinner hall before the plates had been tidied up and a final grace said, then we were supposed to file out in an orderly fashion, table by table as instructed. Which wasted about ten minutes of your precious lunch hour. If you tried to sneak out early by the door at the far end (away the teachers' table) and got caught, you were in big trouble. And you usually got caught, it was a suicidal thing to try.

My tactic for sneaking out early was to march up the dinner hall bold as brass, past the teachers' table, a curt nod to any teacher I knew who happened to catch my eye and then straight out of the big door at their end without any pretence that they hadn't noticed.

Never once did any one of them ever dare to call my bluff, despite I would have been in heaps of trouble if they'd ever bothered, given that "sneaking out of dinner early" was presumably a cumulative offence, i.e. had they ever bothered to check whether I had permission to go early (like a piano lesson) and established that I didn't have and never had, then surely the penny would have dropped that I had been sneaking out early regularly for years.

Weird.