Telling secrets out of school

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The school year in Australia finishes around late November/early December. It’s customary for the senior students to get up to a few pranks during the last few weeks. A bit of backstory first. Most Fridays, when Vince was working, we’d go to the local Chinese restaurant for dinner. They employed local high school students as wait staff and we got on well with them. They weren’t very polished but that didn’t worry us. We just enjoyed talking to them and we got to know some quite well. One girl had almost finished at high school and told us how the boys at a neighbouring college were planning to put Condy’s crystals in the school swimming pool. This would turn it purple. To them, it seemed a harmless enough prank but, in reality, the pool would have to be drained and it was likely the grouting would stain. Vince went home very worried and, next morning, employed security staff for the final two days to ensure the same thing didn’t happen at his school. The photo belongs to me.