Damned

Its been 2 days since this event happened and I deliberately waited that long for me to cool off before posting. Now we all get fustrated through life and many times we are whisked to a furious rage. Now I don't angry easily. Annoyed as hell maybe, but never really rip-your-head-off angry. But on Thursday, an event occured that threw me into such a fit of rage that I couldn't sleep, couldn't eat and couldn't think properly. In hindsight, it was like raging over spilt milk but it was very hard not to feel angry and disgusted. This is the event.

Now, the back oval is currently off-limits, since they are doing some renovations and all the soil is like upturned. So we can play on the oval otherwise the grass dies and we end up with a mini-desert in our school. So we're playing cricket at the nets, which are right next to the back oval. The inevitable occurs and a ball lands on the oval, less than 2 meters from the edge. So a mate goes to get the ball and this teacher stops him from stepping on the oval, due to the rules. He comes back perplexed and silent. Later, Zee gets a ball then step onto the oval to pick up the earlier ball. He takes around two steps onto the field, picks up the ball, then takes two steps back on to the asphalt. Instantly the teacher stops him and starts telling him off for picking up the ball. A few more friends back Zee up, using reason. The ball was a couple of meters away, and a few steps wouldn't damage anything. It's just one ball, for the entire lunch period. Instead, the teacher stubbornly sticks to the rules, then, in a move that defy all logic, confiscated the tennis ball. She said if we wanted the ball back, we would have to see Fitzy, our deputy principal. Now that creates an outrage.

It's obvious the rules say not to step on the oval, but this is just a ball on the fringes of the field, not in the middle. Zee is a light guy, its not like he's trampling on the oval to deliberately mess things up! If it was the middle of the oval, then maybe we may have left it. But it was barely 2 meters away. What, were we supposed to leave the ball there forever until work started on the oval and some workman throws it back to us? But this teacher's stubborness, stupidity and arrogance left us furious. When lunch ended, Cricketman went up to the teacher and asked for her name, so he could refer this to Fitzy when he went to get the ball. The teacher rufused to divulge her name, saying it was no of our business and when Cricketman tried to reason that Fitzy was a busy man, and a name would speed things up, she raised her nose up and then called Cricketman "arrogant". Now Cricketman is not an arrogant person in any way, and this was insulting to the point that Cricketman seemed to snap and was ready to retort but we held him back. To this date, we still do not know her name. She's definately in the English department, has relatively short curly dark hair, and speaks in a highish voice. I'm sure you guys will know here immediately. Remember her, because she is a prime example of a person who stubborness and narrow-mindedness leaves her unable to adapt to situations and this incident reflects on her teaching capabilities - crap. I'm damned tempted to throw in "racist" as it was a bunch of Asians and one Sri-Lankan. Fuck it, she's a damned racist as well. So take heed, don't become like her. Yes, there are rules, but they will NEVER be able to cover every situation and its up to you to make decisions based on your judgement and what's happening.