Disdain

>Class of sedimentary geology is scheduled from 8 to 9 am.
>Author remains hopelessly occupied from 7 to 8 am.
>Classroom is filled by five minutes past 8.
>Author eats breakfast leisurely till quarter past 8.
>Author reaches classroom at 8.30, but doesn’t enter, rather contemplates.
>Prof starts the roll call at 8.55 while looking down at the attendance log.
>Author grabs the opportunity and stealthily enters via the back door.
>Author answers attendance call, is marked present.

Thus the title of the post. Now honestly, I don’t mean to insult any of my teachers (though most of them are more of dummies), but I simply love to do this kind of stuff. But today was my most daring venture. Yes, I’ve slipped out of the class after answering my attendance on previous occasions (the Princess will kill me for this), but walking into an hour-long lecture 55 minutes late by taking advantage of the fact that the teacher is looking down at the attendance log is something I’ve never done before.

Was hopelessly occupied from 7 to almost 8.55 am; though was completely dressed. Now, I could’ve skipped breakfast and gone to class straightaway, in which case I would’ve been on time. But then, I wasn’t exactly allowed to skip the meal. Still, I could’ve managed to eat breakfast at break-neck speed, and walk into the classroom about 10 minutes late, which is passé. But instead, I chose to enjoy my breakfast, and accompanied it with a generous dose of tea. Then I walked slowly to class, and reached there around 8.25 am.

Now obviously, I couldn’t have entered the classroom legally; the teacher would’ve probably scolded me off. Maybe he would’ve developed a personal enmity with me as well… duh, I’m being weird. Anyway, it was certain I had to slip in. Initially I felt like abandoning it, as I had a pretty good attendance in that subject. But my previous brushes with attendance combined with an urge to do something bold egged me on. And as the backbenchers witnessed in amazement, I entered, and in five minutes, I had officially attended an hour-long lecture.

Heh!

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