LATER ON

AFTER THE FIRE

Yeah well, headmaster took a dim view etc, and me mate got a few days detention cos he was only the lookout. I was suspended and not allowed to go back unless I brought my parents with me. I tried to convince him to just let me do it by letter cos me Dad was in Vietnam and me Mum was flatout. I figured I could just sign their names and send it back, after all it was what I did with all other school corresspondence. I was on a weekly report for most of the year and had to have each report signed by them. Sif get busted!. I'd just sign em and send em back, same as most the mail they sent.

But no, it had to be my parents in at the school ffs.

So, everyday I would get dressed for school and head off down the river.
My dad was coming back from Vietnam in a fortnight and very soon after we were moving to Sydney.
Perfect I thought, I'll keep fishin n shit down the river, then we"ll just move to Sydney, I'll just start school there and my parents will never know I got suspended.

Fkn DUH!!!!