From Allan Castlehow - Canada
Whilst
in 3rd year we the boys of 3T decided that we would take turns in playing truant
for a day. All we would do was hang out at the boy’s room at the far end of
the yard and come out at each break and lunch time. When my turn came I duly
hung out at the appointed place and at first period my classmates came and told
me I better return as Miss Davis was asking where I was. They said they told her
I was not in but her reply was that could not be so as she had seen me on the
bus coming to school that morning. I’d got on at Heworth, she was already on
from Felling. Needless to say I returned after lunch with the excuse that I had
been to the dentist not that she believed me (note my mother soon found out
about it). This puzzled me as my mother always knew what I had done at school.
In my last year I asked her how she knew then she told me . It started with a
question. ‘Who is your English teacher? ‘Mrs Youngs?’ I replied. Then,
‘what does her husband do?’ I replied,’he is an engineer.’
‘Where at?’ ‘I do not know,’ I replied. ‘Well,’ she said, he
is chief engineer at Monkton Coke Works. Then the penny dropped as to how she
knew for all of those years as my father also worked there. So you can follow
the path of knowledge of how mothers always know.
Allan Castlehow (9 Dec 03)