Mr ‘Tiny’ Hadi

This story happened in 1982. I was in the last grade of senior high school, SMA Negeri 1 Solo. Aged 16-17, I and my classmates were at the peak of naughtiness. We ever left the class and watched the Queen life show on the video. Freddie Mercury was our idol at that time. We called teacher with ‘special’ name, that I knew they didn’t want to hear it. We had done so many thing that had made our teachers dissappointed. Our Indonesian teacher was Mr. Hadi. His posture was short, shorter than average of us. We called him Mr. ‘tiny’ Hadi. One day we had Indonesian class with Mr. Hadi. After he had come into the classroom, one of our friend closed and locked the classroom door. The class went quietly and no incident was happened. After one hour the bell rang, Indonesian class was over. Mr. Hadi had said ‘see you’ , walked to the door and we were waiting for science teacher, Mr. Ranto. At first, we ignored Mr. Hadi that returned to the teacher’s chair and sat there. After a few minutes, one of our friend asked him, ‘Mr. Hadi why are you…?’ She stopped the question as Mr. Hadi raised his eyebrow and pointed to the door. As we knew what made Mr. Hadi returned to his chair, we did not help him but laughed, laughed loudly. Mr. Hadi’s expression was a mixture of angry, ashamed, and desperate. The classroom door lock was designed and placed at the top rail of the door. As it was locked by our friend, with his tiny posture Mr. Hadi could not reach the lock even if he raised his hand. Ordinarily it was enaugh to close the door, never lock it. My naughty friend locked the door to create funny scene when Indonesian class was over. We were still laughing loudly when we heard a knock outside the door. ‘Open the door children’, the voice of Mr. Ranto. One of my friend opened the locked door and pleased Mr. ‘tiny’ Hadi to leave the classroom. Mr. Hadi walked desperately and with suspicious face Mr. Ranto asked him, ‘what’s wrong?’. Mr. ‘tiny’ Hadi just said ‘nothing’. We laughed again and again til then with loud sound Mr. Ranto yelled ‘shut up’……