There was one rather unusual smacking incident at my junior school.
This was of a boy who was spanked by a dinner lady.
The boy was a rather cute lad with curly hair who wore rather tight short trousers.
The dinner lady just pulled him out a line of us waiting to go to the dining room, bent him over, and spanked him.
Another dinner lady then asked her what the boy had done wrong, and she just said nothing, but I haven’t spanked him for ages so it was about time he had another one!
The boy didn’t seem to mind at all and probably enjoyed it as much as she did!
In the early years of primary school, I went home at dinner time,I had to stay once, while my parents attended my Uncle`s funeral.
I remember having potatoes and beetroot served up to me.
Now I quite like both these vegetables but not necessarily together!
The dinner lady made me finish my plate and I came to the conclusion school dinners were awful things and best avoided
There came a point when I realized that by going home I was missing out on spending free time with my friends so armed with a packed lunch I began to spend lunchtimes at school thus under the supervision of the dinner ladies.
The dinner ladies that patrolled the playground (not the same that made us eat our dinners) were very popular, especially with the girls.
Most dinner times a gaggle of girls could be seen collected around the dinner ladies.
There was a bit of a sour-faced grumpy one that no one seemed to like but in general, the ladies were friendly, ready to join in games and not overly given to shouting or getting cross.
They did of course have to maintain control and order, sometimes threatening to tell the headmaster about naughty behaviour and would occasionally make a badly behaved child stand and face the wall for a few moments.
