1.The No Hat, No Play rule, which had you sulking in the shade.
2.When bubblers on a hot day were the furthest thing from refreshing and the water was basically at boiling point.
3.Not being picked to collect the lunch orders from the canteen, because that one-minute walk from your classroom was the break you well and truly deserved.
4.The horror of accidentally wearing your school uniform on a mufti day.
5.Failing your pen license test because, duh, everyone knows a kid needs a license to operate a very dangerous ballpoint pen.
6.Begging your friend for a taste of their sour fruit Roll-Up because they had cool parents and yours were horrifyingly strict.
7.Having to sit inside a demountable classroom, on a 40- degree day, in the middle of an Australian summer, with no aircon.
8.Not having $1 when someone brought around their box of Freddo Frogs for a netball/footy/soccer fundraiser.
9.Not knowing the second verse of "Advance Australia Fair" during the school assembly.
10.Taking your sandwich out of your lunchbox and realising the Australian heat melted your cheese, and turned the bread into soggy pieces of terror.
11.Spending an entire game of Heads Down, Thumbs Up without being chosen and wondering what the point of life even is anymore.
12.Not receiving a merit award during assembly when you were absolutely sure you had it in the bag.
13.Getting ready to devour your free packet of Milo from the cricket day and realising it had become sticky and gross.
14.Playing dodgeball during P.E. with those painfully heavy rubber balls, before teachers actually realised it was dangerous.
15.Cutting your tongue while eating a beloved Zooper Dooper on a stinking hot day.
16.Getting third-degree burns on the insides of your mouth after taking a bite of meat pie fresh from the canteen.
17.Coming sixth in a school athletic event meaning you didn’t get a ribbon, but someone who came fifth bloody did.
18.Missing school the day Healthy Harold came, and not getting to spend a few hours locked inside a dark van with a strange giraffe talking about sex.
19.Going down a metal slippery dip during the summer, which was like sliding down the tongue of Satan himself.
20.Being mortally afraid of rocking too far back in your chair, because your teacher warned you there was a kid who cracked his head open that way.
21.And being forced to watch the atrocity which was The Magic Pudding during a rainy lunchtime.
