WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact
A local retiree has enjoyed getting the blood pumping in her veins at the Betoota Heights High Literature exam this morning.
After a couple of hours of wandering around the Bowling Club’s function room, something she’s more than acquainted with over the last three decades, Coleen Graham was primed for a bit of excitement as the clock ticked past the finishing post.
With a few run of the mill toilet walks for some young entitled students not really breaking up the time for Coleen, she was reportedly ready for something a bit more serious.
So, when her colleague shouted out that time was up, and it was pen’s down, Coleen clicked into gear.
Quickly scanning the room of stressed students who have been told their futures depend upon this score, she quickly spotted a teenager who hadn’t quite finished her work.
Frantically trying to scribble her final sentence like she was in Squid Game, Coleen quickly honed in on the rule breaker.
“No more writing,” she said loudly, striding towards the student in question.
“Pen’s downnnnn.”
“I said”
“Pens downnnn,” she said with a raised pitch while shooting daggers at the young lady.
“PENS DOWN. NO MORE WRITING,” she finished, reefing the exam paper out of the student’s hand and offering up some more choice words.
With the flustered student muttering something about being sorry before collapsing back into her chair and staring away into the timbery horizon, Colleen let out a satisfied sigh, before proceeding to collect the rest of the papers in her aisle.
Speaking to us a short time later, Colleen explained that rules are rules.
“They apply to everyone, and that’s the way it should be,” she said, visibly withholding an outburst about these new generations.
“Don’t get me started,” she warned before strolling off.
