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A threat regularly employed by my mother. I got in trouble precisely once, in jr high (as it was known then). I was in the band, and band practice was held after lunch on M-W-F, and before lunch on T-Th. One Tuesday or Thursday, a bandmate and I were really hungry, so we decided to skip practice and go to lunch earlier rather than later. We were down in the principal's office in nothing flat. I'm sure my mother feared that I would never get into a good college because of this.

At about that same age, shorter skirts came into fashion, and girls were regularly called into "the office" for their skirts being too short. There was a skirt at a local department store that I really, really, really wanted but my mother wouldn't agree to it for fear it would be too short and be noticed by TPTB. It wasn't even particularly short - right above my knee cap, no thigh exposure. This has to now be about 60 years ago, and I still remember what the skirt looked like - a cute pleated number in a gray and yellow plaid.