6/20/2023 0 Comments Keyhole Peeper by Jay de Bekker![]() ![]() It was from that incident that I learned the meaning of “Peeping Tom.” However, the term goes back much farther in history, to the legend of Lady Godiva. ![]() At the least, it saved me from having to endure the ugly looks-and I do mean cut-off-your-balls ugly-that those embarrassed misses shot at the offenders each time they passed in the echoing hallways. I don’t remember what disciplinary actions followed, but I do recall thanking my lucky stars that I had not been invited to take part in this pubescent prank. Even before the young ladies caught bare-assed and red-faced could formally complain (along with their mothers) about such indignities, our very proper female principal had identified the guilty parties and called them on the carpet. I don’t know how long they remained unseen, but once discovered, their presence set off shrieks that threatened to shatter glass throughout that level of the school. ![]() While others were busy in class, they scampered to the top of that vehicle and slowly lifted their wide eyes above the windowsill. During the spring of my seventh-grade year (or maybe it was eighth grade), a group of boys from my class decided to take advantage of a maintenance truck that had been parked idly beneath the high windows of the girl’s gymnasium locker. It’s one of the stories I remember best from my early education. ![]()
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