Did I ever tell you about the time Rudolph Giuliani's police force rounded up my whole class* for truancy ... on a field trip to the art museum?

*one of my classmates was 18 so she was free to go. She dropped a quarter in the pay phone and sent for help

@catmisgivings well now i'm invested in the whole story. what did the school do? did the cops end up looking like idiots?

of course, you're under no obligation to say.

@fishidwardrobe the short version is that every parent of every student in my class demanded answers. The principal said "I hear you; let me investigate this and get back to you." A week later it was like nothing ever happened.