And apparently the teacher forgot to send the detention slip to the office, so the sentence was never served, and this incident remains undocumented in the official high school chronicles. He went to the band room and hid for the rest of the day instead. Also, the keys belonged to Sandy, who he had a crush on despite having a long-term girlfriend…and said girlfriend was also a Good Kid with a low tolerance for nonsense, so the tea was spilling EVERYWHERE after this.Įpilogue: Dan never actually WENT to detention. He grabbed a set of keys, put them in the outlet, and “I pushed them in with my pen.” The resulting boom disproved his hypothesis. Dan was immediately sent to detention, but we got the deets later: Dan had been considering the outlets, and in the interest of science, decided to run an impromptu experiment. We all turned and a somewhat stunned Dan was sitting WAY back in his seat, looking VERY surprised and maybe a little windblown. I wonder why? I mean, they’re not, like, connected to anything, right?”Īnd the next day, in the middle of class: To get things started, all I’d had to do was ponder aloud to Dan one day earlier, “All the science tables have outlets on them. (None of us had phones to charge back then, and we weren’t using any cool power tools, so we had no idea why they were there.) For some reason, though, each table was equipped with what appeared to be electrical outlets. We were in biology class, with its long tables suitable for dissections, Petri dishes, and microscope slides.

(Dan is, in fact, his real name, but he’s completely fallen off the grid since high school, so here you go.) Dan had a sense of adventure and zero…well, actual sense.

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