Rat (2012)
“Miller is the vice-principal. Our school is a big-city high school with big-city problems, and Miller had been brought in last year as a kind of troubleshooter. Word was that he’d wrestled knives from students and had faced down someone in his school with a gun.
Miller had a rep as being a hard-ass, and if you had a name as a troublemaker, he was on your case. That would be me. Not that I deserved it. I just had some problems with authority figures. School had a funny set of unwritten laws. It ...seemed to me that if you were sneaky about your dirty work and no teacher saw what you were up to, you could get away with a hell of a lot. Almost no one in the school was going to snitch on you. But if you were up front with your complaint or defiant in any public way, and honest about it, you found yourself called to the office and sitting across the desk from Mr. Miller.
Just like I was now.
“So, Colin, I’m sad to say your egregious behavior rather interrupted my lunch.”
“I don’t understand what egregious means.”MoreLess
Miller had a rep as being a hard-ass, and if you had a name as a troublemaker, he was on your case. That would be me. Not that I deserved it. I just had some problems with authority figures. School had a funny set of unwritten laws. It ...seemed to me that if you were sneaky about your dirty work and no teacher saw what you were up to, you could get away with a hell of a lot. Almost no one in the school was going to snitch on you. But if you were up front with your complaint or defiant in any public way, and honest about it, you found yourself called to the office and sitting across the desk from Mr. Miller.
Just like I was now.
“So, Colin, I’m sad to say your egregious behavior rather interrupted my lunch.”
“I don’t understand what egregious means.”MoreLess
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