One of the assistant headteachers at my school owes me £10 · 3:59pm Apr 25th, 2022
For the meantime, I'll refer to the teacher in question as Dave.
So, at the end of the last term, I received a Platinum House Point Award. That means I've been a goody-four-horseshoes since the start of the school year last September. For the Platinum award, you get a £20 Amazon gift card and a shiny badge. I got both of those and thought nothing of it.
Fast forward to last Saturday when I tried to order the book I've wanted to get for a while. Now, I don't buy stuff online if I can get it local, but I went on several expeditions to every bookstore I could find in the search for this book, and everywhere said the same thing: you can only buy that one online, stupid. Eventually I took the hint and went to order it, using my lovely £20 Amazon gift card, a much appreciated gift from my school.
I redeemed it, and... It was only £10.
As you can imagine, I went from being happy to confused to upset very quickly. To anyone who says "but that's better than nothing, Angel," imagine you're working really hard to earn money because you want to buy a car or go on holiday or get a better house or something, and at the end of the month when you get your paycheck you're only given two weeks' worth of wages. You've done all of that work and they haven't even paid you properly. You'd be infuriated, and you'd probably have a lot of questions for your boss. That's how I felt on Saturday night.
I was second guessing myself, so I messaged a friend and a teacher to ask how much the gift card was supposed to be worth, and neither of them knew. I was forced to wait until today to find out the truth.
So this morning, I walked in the school gates, said hi to Dave as I passed him, and thought nothing of it. I found the teacher who I thought knew everything about the house point awards and asked her, only to be told that she knew nothing about it. She told me to ask my head of year, which I did. He didn't know either, but told me that Dave was the one who organised it so he would know.
The whistle was blown to signal the start of school. I lined up with my class, listened to the morning announcement and went into first lesson: science. The teacher was in a good mood and we did a fun practical. Turns out, Skittles are a great way of representing the random nature of radioactive decay and half-lives, and you get to eat them afterwards.
The lesson ends, I start walking to my next class, and guess who I bump into? Yep, you guessed it: Dave. I say hi to him again, and ask him about the gift cards, explaining the situation to him. Then, he tells me a story.
Something you need to know about Dave is that he's a bit of a klutz - and openly admits it, too. He's probably the clumsiest teacher in the whole school. When the school ordered a load of £10 and £20 Amazon gift cards as prizes and awards, they looked completely identical. Dave was organising all of the awards and must have been carrying them all from one part of the school to another when, because of his clumsiness, he tripped over his own feet and they spilled everywhere.
Dave thought he could tell which ones were which based on where they fell, and separated them all, but because they were identical a couple of gift cards ended up in the wrong piles. The gift card I was given happened to be one of the sneaky £10 ones in the £20 pile.
Suddenly it all made a lot more sense. Dave apologised and said that he'd get me another £10 gift card asap so that I could have the full amount of money needed to get the book. Dave may be a self-proclaimed klutz, but he isn't horrible. It's just something to laugh about.
So yeah, that's how one of the assistant headteachers at my school owes me £10. Do what you will with this useless information.
~ Angel
I'll start the next Chernobyl
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*confused British horse noises*
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honse
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*confused British horse noises grow louder*
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Do you call those things chips? instead of crispity crunchie munchie crackerjack snacker nibblers crack n' pop westpoolchestershireshire queens lovely jubilee delights?
Thats a rather bit cringe innit bruv
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... I can't un-hear that in my head now. *mock sarcastic voice* Well done!
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hope it will work for out for you