Hehe, nice story indeed. I mean, I was always the teacher favourite, but I doubt I could have gotten away with anything that deserved detention in my school... Punishment is taken very seriously in here, too seriously, and it is all institutionalised, standardised, organised, legalised, bureaucratised and so on... The best teacher I had was my psychology teacher, and I spent the whole year talking with him, sitting in the back of the class, right next to his desk. I never did any of the classwork, only the tests, and got a 98. That was as far as favouritism took me.