Arnold is sure that someone picked the lock! The only true story I can tell about mischief around lockers is that when I was a kid on a swim team, one of the older guys would open all the lockers before he left the locker room and run past them with his hand extended out. Bang-bang-bang-bang! was the sound that echoed through the drafty room, because at the time, the lockers were made out metal. It’s safe to say this is probably why all the lockers were replaced with plastic later on because over the years they had really taken a beating. On the other hand, a middle schooler on the same swim team told me that some guys at his school had applied oil to the interior of a locker and practically the whole thing had gone up in a blaze. So that’s what you learn in middle school. So it may be that around swimmers, lockers will eventually be lost to impact, flame, or perhaps, a leak coming from the ceiling.
This particular cartoon is completely fictional, though I would not be surprised if someone encountered something very similar. The previous high jinks of my fellow swimmers are fun to look back on, but I don’t think assisting kids in new ways to make a racket or introducing Arsonry 101 through my comic is a good idea. I’m pretty sure that one day a comic strip of mine will spark some mischief in someone but I’m hoping it will just involve the mischief of humor.
This particular cartoon is completely fictional, though I would not be surprised if someone encountered something very similar. The previous high jinks of my fellow swimmers are fun to look back on, but I don’t think assisting kids in new ways to make a racket or introducing Arsonry 101 through my comic is a good idea. I’m pretty sure that one day a comic strip of mine will spark some mischief in someone but I’m hoping it will just involve the mischief of humor.
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