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A True (But I Wish It Was False) Story...

Have you ever had an experience in your life where it was so fantastical and so teeth-grindingly terrible, that it was a true story that you wish was false?

When I was in my 2nd primary school, I was part of the schools production of Bugsy Malone (if you’ve seen the film, then an explanation of plots & character is henceforth un-needed) and was playing the incompetant ginger gangster who pointed the splurge gun at himself in the restaurant shootout scene.
The school teachers were so out-of-tune with practicalities that they made the pies (that are used by the badguy gang to get rid of the aforementioned ginger gangster) out of paper plates & Gilette shaving cream.

You might see where this is going…

So when the big ‘pie-ing’ scene came (and it merits mentioning that I thought they should have used whipped cream instead) and the shaving cream ‘pies’ were shoved, one by one, into my face and I was left to choke on the toxic tasting Gilette cream…well, let’s just say I was NOT a happy camper after that…

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