field trips

[Cobra_Commander]

one of my favorites:

 

In the 3rd grade we visited the post office for some reason. In the middle of the mailroom floor some kid decides it's time to puke. Some mail guy in a hurry with a big cart comes racing through it. He didn't realize what he just did until there were vomit tracked across the entire floor, with footprints of vomit clearly visible. That dude was as pissed as, well, a postal worker.

 

One of my least favorites was visiting the city sewage treatment plant where you walked on iron catwalks over what appeared to be hot tubs of shit. Impressively there was no vomiting this day.

 

feel free to add.

[rob]

We had a field trip to the police station, where everyone was fingerprinted and placed in a holding cell (to show what it was like.)

 

It sounded like a real uplifting event. I was sick with the flu, so luckily the man still doesn't have my fingerprints.

[Cobra_Commander]

the jail and sewage plants seem to be popular with the elementary school set.

[tvashtarkatena]

Bob Bondurant School of Driving. We got slammed around Sears Point Raceway at 130 mph in the back of a suped up Datsun 610.

 

No waivers, either. Not sure that one would fly nowadays.

[RogerJ]

When I was a kid (before dinosaurs), we went on a tour of the Johnston Cookie Company in Milwaukee, WI. Some kid on the trip was telling stories of a worker loosing his arm to the mixing arms stirring batter in these giant tubs, and of these batches of bloody cookies that were created.

 

At the end of the trip, they gave each of us a package of cookies. I think I've never seen so many cookies go uneaten by 2nd graders.

 

-r

[Cobra_Commander]

Giving packages of cookies to an entire 2nd grade class = thermonuclear event.

 

[knotzen]

In fifth grade my class went to Olympia to see the capital/capitol (hasn't every school kid in the Puget Sound area done this?).

 

The highlight was seeing then-governor--seriously dating myself here--Dixie Lee Ray giving an interview on the capitol steps. Woot!

 

What I remember most about all field trips is the sack lunch. Mom always put added a can of soda wrapped in foil to field trip lunches, because we wouldn't be at school to buy the cute little cartons of milk.

[billcoe]

Well, I vividly remember 2 field trips to the Camas pulp and paper mill.

 

The whiring and deafenig noise was very impressive. As was the smell.

 

I still like the way that plant smells, despite most others finding it intolerable.

[Cobra_Commander]

What I remember most about all field trips is the sack lunch.

 

YES. HELL YES.

[olyclimber]

did you get twinkies or ding-dongs?

[Cobra_Commander]

a small haybale and some water.

[cj001f]

did you get twinkies or ding-dongs?

 

neither, I didn't go to catholic school

[olyclimber]

I bet you got Hot Carl Sandwiches for lunch.

[cj001f]

Olymama got sandwiched by a hot carl

[RogerJ]

I remember my 4th grade teacher taking us to a porn shop. He put quarters in our pockets one at a time for the movies. I think he was later arrested.

 

-r

[AlpineK]

I went on a tour of the salmon hatchery in Issaquah when I was in grade school. Nothing that crazy happened. It only stands out in my memory because back then Issaquah was still a small hick town and miles from the yuppie suburban monster it's become.

 

Hell back then if you wanted to go fly a glider Issaquah was the spot.

[knotzen]

I remember my 4th grade teacher taking us to a porn shop. He put quarters in our pockets one at a time for the movies. I think he was later arrested.

 

-r

You lie.

[RogerJ]

I remember my 4th grade teacher taking us to a porn shop. He put quarters in our pockets one at a time for the movies. I think he was later arrested.

 

-r

You lie.

 

OK, You got me. This really did not happen.. but the cookie thig did.

 

-r

[olyclimber]

But this did happen to Roger last night:

 

http://www.komotv.com/news/local/7988417.html

[mattp]

With my sunday school class I visited services at about a dozen different churches, temples, Quaker meeting, etc. at age 12. The fact that there were so vastly different approaches to worship made a big impression on me.

[fenderfour]

With my sunday school class I visited services at about a dozen different churches, temples, Quaker meeting, etc. at age 12. The fact that there were so vastly different approaches to worship made a big impression on me.

 

Wow. That is very cool and open minded.

[Macson]

As a kid in northern Michigan we used to go to Sleeping Bear Dunes every year for a day in the spring. Looking back, I think it's amazing that you could fill up an entire day with a hundred kids just climbing up and down on sand dunes. No lectures, no instruction, no history...I could learn more about those dunes from Google in 30 seconds than they ever told us in half a dozen field trips there.

[knotzen]

With my sunday school class I visited services at about a dozen different churches, temples, Quaker meeting, etc. at age 12. The fact that there were so vastly different approaches to worship made a big impression on me.

 

Wow. That is very cool and open minded.

Definitely.

 

I remember asking in Sunday school once how we know "our" religion is the "right" one and the others are "wrong." The poor volunteer Sunday school teacher looked surprised and flustered, and said, "We just do. We just believe it."

 

Surprising I wasn't kicked out. But dang if I don't appreciate religious and spiritual people who will honestly contemplate these kinds of questions, instead of putting on blinders to pretend the questions, and their implications, and the people who ask them, don't exist. In other words, churches and beliefs that allow questioning.

[Kat_Roslyn]

I started this rumor in high school that we were taking a field trip to the Cheese Factory (the one that used to be by Issaquah). Everyone got really excited, the teachers even believed it. Then, I told them I made it up.

[RogerJ]

I started this rumor in high school that we were taking a field trip to the Cheese Factory (the one that used to be by Issaquah). Everyone got really excited, the teachers even believed it. Then, I told them I made it up.

 

Were you expelled or publically humilated?

 

-r