What's The Difference Between Boys And Girls ? --- Pupils I remember (4)

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At German schools, the break/recess between lessons lasts five minutes. The long break (usually after the second lesson) lasts 15 minutes. The pupils *have* to leave their classrooms. The teachers lock the doors and the pupils *have* to leave the school building to get some fresh air. Do they like it? The small ones do. They romp around, play tag or hide and seek. Teens in love do, too, because they can meet their beloved and smooch in hidden corners. The majority, however, hates it, hates it, hates it! Teachers have to patrol along the corridors and shoo the pupils out. Once they're out, they enter again through a different door. And so on, and so forth. It's a never-ending story. Once I saw two girls - about 15 years old - clinging desperately to an upright radiator which was fixed to the wall. They were shivering. Admittedly, it was cold outside, but they could have put on their coats and they would have survived. It wasn't my 'throw-out-pupils' day, so I only passed them and said, "Only girls cling to radiators in winter." Giggle, giggle. After the break, I had English in the class of the girls. The lesson had just begun when one of the boys (classes are co-ed), dressed only in a T-shirt, got up, went to a window at the back of the classroom and opened it wide. All the girls let out a shriek! I looked at the two girls I had talked to during the break and said, "And the next line is 'Only boys open windows in winter' ". They laughed. The rest of the class couldn't understand why, of course. First prize for the member who knows why this occurrence isn't in any way exceptional. A biological peculiarity explains it. --- --- If you click on the green bar at the top of the page, you can find my other posts on the topic. --- Photo: Getty images