Flesh-eating beasts
When I was at school (aged about 13, roughly 12 years ago), we were taken for RE in the dining hall, as the terrapin (crappy MDF box on stilts to our American readers) we normally used was out of order. Notice that, as a dining hall, food was served and consumed in this room on a daily basis.

As the (tedious) lesson progressed, three of us became aware of small, black tick-like things crawling over our books and pencil cases. Looking up, we saw that we were directly underneath a huge, Alien-style nest, with many more of the creatures swarming about on the ceiling. We alerted the teacher, but were told not to "make a fuss about nothing". We were not even allowed to move to a different table.

Needless to say, half-an-hour later these things were crawling all over us - under our clothes, into our noses and mouths, everywhere. Again, we drew the teacher's attention to this, now escalated situation and were sent home to shower and change clothes.

Cue shitty letters and phone calls from our naturally horrifed parents. The school did nothing, and continued to allow students to eat lunch in this room.

Comprehensive school, obviously, but I turned out alright.
(noir, Mon 6 Jun 2005, 11:47, Reply)