That Must’ve Been One Crowded Detention Hall

One of the only things I ever got detention for in high school was regularly being late to class in my nightmare maze of a school.

When the school was first opened, it had five halls with an open-air courtyard between halls four and five. But then, they decided to expand the school by building four new halls. For some reason, these faced perpendicular to the other four, between halls four and five, with only one doorway on each side in and out of that area.

I had to go from hall five to hall one through the sideways, crowded mess of halls seven through ten.

I don’t know why they did it like that, but it was literally impossible to get there within the four-minute passing periods they gave us.