Private school was quite the ordeal for me and I had already developped a “screw you” attitude. My first year there I largely followed the rules but doing homework and assignments was a different story. I got in trouble more than once and ended up with detentions quite often. My second year, on the other hand, was a completely different story.
My “screw you” attitude really took over in a big way. I started finding shady ways to get out of classes, I started stealing money from one of the foreign students, I started hanging around the “townies” and going to their houses (totally against the rules unless you have permission), drinking (huge no no). I missed dinner a time or two (mandatory attendance) and not doing homework continued to be a trend.
If that wasn’t enough there was this one time I missed a dinner or something mandatory on campus because I was holed up in a hotel room with a band. I was going run away from private school with the band and go to Montreal.
My best friend was called to the headmaster’s office and grilled as to my whereabouts. She finally conceded to take two of my favorite teachers to my location on the condition she would be the one to come in and get me. I very much did not want to go back to school but the alternative was to have the police collect me (I was like fifteen or sixteen and therefore still a minor).
I ended up being room confined for the final month of school that year. I couldn’t wait to get out of there but I still didn’t want to go home. My parents were advised I needn’t apply the following year as I would not be accepted.
Back home I started basically just doing what I wanted whenever I wanted. I was back in the public school system but I hardly showed up to class or did homework, naturally. There were times I wouldn’t come home for two or three days at a time, I started doing drugs and partying more; all of which are against the rules at home, of course. I don’t think there was even a single house rule I followed. I finally left home at seventeen.
Rules just were not my thing, they still aren’t but my attitude isn’t the same. I only use my rule ignoring powers for good. In the customer service and hospitality industries not strictly following rules is what made me excel in my role. I was able to satisfy some of the most difficult customers by convincing managers go wildly outside of procedure.
My Phoenix Rising 