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Tom Penny’s dad was our art Teacher. Looked like Tom does now but in blue cords and hush puppies.
Same voice it’s spooky. Mr Penny had similar demons to Tom, he didn’t really teach, he just created a place where kids who wanted to draw and paint could do so without getting harassed by the kids that wanted to headlock each other and huff their farts.One day he decided for some reason to engage the class as a whole. He took out a pencil and paper and drew a portrait of one of the girls in the class. Total silence for the half hour it took. The picture of course to our eyes was at the same level as a da Vinci or Raphael sketch.
The problem with our school was that in general the teachers were average - some cripplingly so, but the kids they were primo cunts...lord of the flies would have been a fuckin holiday
@yetidamo and I were talking about both Penny’s last week, we skated with Tom once or twice when he was just a 12 year old ripper. He was ridiculously good then
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Not a particularly shocking story. About 14, got really into skateboarding and it used to blow my mind every day that I went to the same school that Tom Penny used to. We once asked our headmaster "Sir, do you remember a kid called Tom Penny?"
"The name rings a bell, I think"
"He looked a bit like this", a friend pointing to the Flip deck with a portrait of Tom's face on it.
"Yes, that's him," replied headteacher, "What is he up to these days?"
I don't know if he was joking, but it was quite funny.