Tormenting his High School Principal

But I was also a practical joker in high school.  I used to use the mail a lot for my pranks.  I would go to the drug store and take the subscription cards out of the magazines and put someone else’s name and address on them and send them off.  My high school principal had a name that he didn’t like – “Hymie”.  I think it was from an old tv show about a robot. Anyway, the high school had hundreds of dollars of subscriptions coming addressed to Hymie.  I was a suspect in this case, I suppose because I was involved in all the trouble that went on in our school.

“Hymie” took me out of class one day.  He wanted to compare my handwriting with the writing on the subscription card that one of the post office workers had given him (The investigation was on). It was quite obvious to me and I would think anyone else that whoever had filled out the card had printed with his other hand.  Hymie couldn’t make the match and I was released, with a smile on my face and a gain in my ‘outlaw’ reputation.  This was only one of many encounters with Hymie and I came out ahead.