Power-tripping teachers/administrators

[Prince Rilian]

When I was in 7th grade, I was taking tennis 1st period. For some reason we practiced in the cafeteria most days. We stood around doing ups and downs or catching rings with our non-dominant hands. Then one day I was in the hallway outside the cafeteria hitting a tennis ball against the wall over and over again, and the period was almost over, and the boys who were in the so-called "athletics" class were sitting in a line against a wall in a little hallway that went from the hallway I was in down to the boys' locker room. I heard my name called and I turned and it was a guy I knew from some other classes, Max, sitting just inside the other hallway. I walked over and he handed me some money and begged me to get him a grandma's cookies from the vending machine which was literally 6 feet away. I asked why he couldn't do it, and he said he would get in trouble if he left that hallway and went into the main hallway. So I got the cookies for him. Then a minute later, their coach came down and saw him eating the cookies and was like "OMGWTF DID YOU GET UP AND WALK 6 FEET TO THE MACHINE HOW DARE YOU" and Max told the coach that I gave them to him, and then the coach stormed over and asked me if I gave him the cookies, and I said yes, and the coach was like "RAR NEVER DO THAT AGAIN".

This is one example of the kind of bullshit that makes me just go "bawha? What the fuck, school?" What is the point of saying those guys have to sit inside that one little hallway and aren't allowed to move somewhere that's 6 feet away even if they go right back and sit back down, and why is it even a big deal if I give them some cookies? Like, the coach was probably mad because Max figured out a way to circumvent the rules, but why was that rule there in the first place?

Share more examples, if you please.