How to Manipulate!

I had some classmates in high school who would do anything to make fun of the teachers and administrators. Some people have a good sense of finding weaknesses in others. The combination of this and some boldness and the desire to be known courageous, would be the engine behind making fun of the authorities and playing sarcastic games with them. A group of students would sometimes conspire against a teacher, just to make them look ridiculous. If a teacher confessed that he had strong feelings towards something, he would have been doomed forever! For instance, we had a teacher (who professed casually while lecturing) that he hated garlic. From the following day until the end of the school year, the word garlic was written on the board in different ways and styles. There were various graffiti of garlic on the walls of the classroom, and sometimes fresh garlic cloves were sitting on a desk in his class! On their papers, some students would find a way to mention the word garlic or somehow refer to it! Of course, the teacher would act his part as well, by showing unpleasant reactions to the word or the presence of garlic. The teacher thought that he had the upper hand as far as students' grades were concerned. He was in fact the victim in this story. Students would move to higher grades with different teacheres the following year, but the mentioned teacher would always be left with a bad name. He could never rest, since the same game would be repeated the following school year. Finding redicule on others is not hard. How the one has been the target reacts to it is important.