A story from Tri-Valley High?
Statute of Limitations has not expired! Too many living witnesses yet...............
Here's one: Our senior year I had all my credits but Civics that I needed to graduate. So in a days time I had 1 class, 2 lunch periods and the rest were study hall. Well I drove the study hall monitors crazy so after a month Richie put me in gym class with Skelton for about 6 periods a day. Lo and behold Dumb was there as well but he had got kicked out of most of his classes and Richie threw him in the gym as well. Then one day Richie told us that the chorus, with Ms. Simcox, needed some male singers (Me and Dumb singing?) so we were now offically in the Tri-Valley HS chorus - for all of one week. On the last day we were there, Gary and I hid in the big closets in the back of the room. So when the teacher got there and it got real quiet while she was eating lunch, me and Gary jumped out of the closets screaming bloody murder, scared the hell out of the teacher and she went balistic. Man did that lady cuss! She took both of us to the office to see good old Richie. That was her mistake if she thought Richie was going to punsih us. Sadly, that was officially our last day as chorus singers. I remember the teacher was so pissed, she could hardly talk and never spoke to me again anytime I even saw her in the hallway. Richie did nothing, just shook his head and told us to get back in the gym. No more Ideas from Richie for the rest of the year.
Richie wasn't scared of Big Dumb like a lot of people thought, he was scared of Big George, Gary's dad. During our freshman year Gary got paddled in the hallway by Richie (remember he was the freshman principal?) for something stupid. Well ol George came to the annex the next day and threatened Richie and was gonna whup his ass right then and there. George even told him that if he called the cops, he would pound his ass into the ground before the cops could ever get there and that he had been to jail before and it didn't scare him at all. There was to be no more paddling Dumb at school. Made a believer out of Richie anyway.
