Blaenk Denum

I got detention for the first time in my entire life today haha. It sucks. First let me start off by saying that I get out after Fifth period, one hour before the normal time. Another thing to note is that I rarely get picked up by my parents and on time (I don’t drive yet unfortunately), so I usually have to figure out if anyone can give me a ride, and that’s rarely an option because all my friends that could’ve given me rides now leave after fourth period, an hour before me. So I usually have to wait till after Sixth, the regular time, to leave with a friend that lives across the street from me.

Anyways, so I usually don’t find out that I can’t get picked up by my mom till like lunch and so I have to hurry and see if anyone else can give me rides, my last resort is usually the friend after sixth, and sometimes he can’t give me rides. By the way, we need to have our ID card to leave early, to show to them that we have a “special, unique sticker” that has the number ‘6′ on it. Really it’s just a circle sticker of solid green color with a black number 6 on it, no one would ever be able to counterfeit that… So because of all the figuring out if I’m going to leave early or not, you can imagine that I have my card out already. Well, sometimes I leave it in my pants’ pockets but I know that and so I take it out and put it back in my wallet. That didn’t happen yesterday.

So it’s Friday and I’m in my last class, Architecture, happy because I’m finally on schedule and doing well on AutoCAD. Bell’s about to ring to as usual I get my wallet to take my ID Card out and it’s not there. I remember that from where I leave there’s usually just two guys sitting and eating far away and while I always have my card I’ve noticed that many people just flash the card and they don’t even look at it, they’re really far away and looking through barred-fencing. I figure I could do the same, because for the first time in two weeks I get to leave out at the time I leave, plus it’s Friday. I can’t risk not leaving at this time because otherwise my parents would have to leave to work and I would have to see if the friend that gets out after Sixth could give me a ride, and that would be unlikely since he usually goes to his friend’s house. So I figure I would flash it. I get there, though, and it’s a lady. This lady is usually nice, then I start to worry. It’s either I wait till after Sixth, or I try and flash my wallet, because if I tell them that I don’t have it they let me leave but they give me detention, on the other hand if they catch me flashing my wallet they give me SWAP, which is like detention but on Saturday.

I suck it in and try it because I notice the lady went a bit further away, but when I get there I try it and she asks me to come closer and then I tell her I don’t have it. She immediately gets my GLC on the radio and I’m off to see my GLC. She knows I have a clean record and after explaining the situation to her she gives me two options: A. I forgot my card and I get regular detention, or B. I tried to trick the security staff and I get SWAP which is obviously more severe. I obviously take A. I do appreciate that she gave me that option, though. But I can’t help but be pissed off at the situation. I mean, I’m always playing by the rules and crap, I see other people always getting away with not playing by the rules. There’s people that have had multiple SWAPS and have ditched those too, and worse. I always play by the rules. The lady said that it would’ve been better if I would’ve simply went up to her and told her the situation, well, duh, I knew that I would get detention and I didn’t think I deserved it. This one time that I do something wrong and I get caught, that frickin pisses me off.

Like I said I appreciate my GLC lowering the consequences, but I’m pissed off at the choice I took, haha. I knew it was a bad choice and I’m the type of person that would usually go and talk with the person. But I didn’t see that option here, and I’ve had to worry about who’s going to pick me up and if I even am going to get picked up a lot. Not to mention I didn’t want to bother anyone anymore.

I get home and I wonder where the heck my card could be, I look everywhere, then I notice it was just on top of my guitar.

Oh well, whatever. I just hope this detention doesn’t affect me in any bad way while I’m applying for college hahaha.