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Almost everyone will have a teacher or other member of the school staff who drives them crazy for one reason or another.

What would you do if the school librarian was always giving you a hard time, and you discovered that she had a duck figurine on her desk that she really loved?

That is what happened to the young man in this story, so he started ‘kidnapping’ the duck and hiding it around the school, which drove the librarian nuts. Fortunately, he never got caught.

This is one of those funny and mostly harmless pranks. If the librarian was really mad about it, she could have taken the duck home. Read through the full story below and see what you think.

My High School Librarian Was A Little Tyrant. Two Can Play That Game.

This was over fifteen years ago, but this experience still makes me smile a little when I’m feeling immature.

Enforcing rules that aren’t necessary is silly.

I went to a High School with about three hundred students in a small farming town. Most of the teachers were at least decent, and overall High School was an okayish experience but the person that irritated me (and other students) the most was the Librarian Mrs. Schumer.

Mrs. Schumer would go out of her way to enforce what felt like arbitrary rules regarding computer use in the library. For example, I’d be using the computer for fifteen minutes and she’d sneak up behind me and get really close… “You’re fifteen minutes are up you need to get off right now!”

Many teachers treat the girls better than the boys. Of course, high school boys are often a handful.

I’d be virtually alone in an area with twenty or so computers. Other students and I felt that she just did this kind of thing to feel powerful and jerk us around, as I was far from the only victim of this type of thing.

Mrs. Schumer was annoying and fairly constant. She was also arbitrary on who she did this to. The girl students were almost never bothered at all, it seemed.

This decoration is very important to her.

By my sophomore year, I figured out what mattered to Mrs. Schumer. We had a volleyball-sized decorative wooden duck in the library that had been painted Red, White, and Blue, American flag style.

One day I walked by it and I was looking closely at it. Clearly, the duck was handcrafted by someone. Mrs. Schumer freaked out and flew threw the library to get me away from it. This was the most passionate I’d seen her and now I knew what mattered to her.

It has turned into a game.

Later that week the duck vanished. I had placed it as a bookend in one of the less visited sections of the library. Early the next week, it reappeared where it belonged. Mrs. Schumer pulled me aside and told me that she didn’t know who moved the duck but she didn’t want it to happen again. I feigned innocence, but she kept a close eye on me from then on.

I had a new game. Many times when I was in the Library and Mrs. Schumer wasn’t, the duck would travel somewhere else. At first, I kept it near the library, behind rows of books, behind a computer in the nearby computer lab, that kind of thing.

He is driving her insane.

When she got better at finding the duck, I branched out to neglected corners of classrooms. It was in the Spanish class for about three weeks before making its way back to its place.

Mrs. Schumer was getting really paranoid. She would see me in the hallway and quickly bolt to the library when she was in possession of the duck. She never seemed to be at ease.

He is getting his friends in on the fun.

It helped that my friends were in on the joke because she started tracking the disappearances to my library visits. On one memorable occasion, I was talking to Mrs. Schumer while my friend stole the duck.

I noted innocently at the end of our conversation “Looks like someone took the duck again.” She seemed genuinely scared. I’m sure that she had checked it right when she saw me come in so she knew I didn’t take it that time.

Now this is just funny.

During my Junior year, I stole the duck for about four months and my best friend and I took random photos of it all tied up with a blindfold, gag, and chains.

We left the pictures in the spot where the duck was supposed to go. Mrs. Schumer still couldn’t confirm it was me but the pictures really got to her because she brought it up with me again.

They have come to an understanding.

She was nearly in tears with frustration, I actually felt kind of bad for her. A week later I snuck the duck back into its spot.

By senior year I was done with the duck but Mrs. Schumer was also done messing with me. She scarcely ever talked to me again, even when I went over on the computer time. We had a truce.

This is a pretty harmless prank. Plus, she could have taken the duck home at any point, so it obviously wasn’t a huge issue for her.

Read on to see what the people in the comments have to say about this story.

How could he have kept from laughing?

The school is her workplace. It is common to decorate your workplace with personal items.

She was going crazy.

Here is a commenter with an important rule to live by.

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This really was a fun story.

It was a harmless prank, but you know it drove her crazy. While she could have taken the duck home, her pride likely made her want to keep trying to catch this kid.

Fortunately, they seem to have come to a mutual truce without ever discussing it.