Crap Gang

When I was 10 years old  I decided to join a gang. Well, at first there was only one other kid in my gang so we were a 2 strong gang. You may think that doesn't constitute a gang but technically you can have a 2 boy gang. We got ourselves tooled up with packets of Spangles and Sherbert Fountains, then commenced a recruitment campaign amongst our mates. 

We eventually became a 5 strong gang and named ourselves "SCRAP".  We got this inspiration from the group ABBA by naming it after the first initial of all our first names so, as well as me, there was Sean, Rob, Alan and Phil. There was only really one criteria for joining our gang and that was you had to be soft as shite.

The initiation ceremony for each member took place in our local park. You had to prove that you could eat 4 rounds of meat paste butties in one go without being sick. Once you got past this stage you commanded huge respect and were guaranteed to fit in. We terrorised our local communities with activities like walking through their streets holding a football on the way to the football pitch in the park, walking on cracks in the pavement, stroking cats, talking to each other above a whisper in each others houses and other such roguish behaviour.

On one particular night (well it may have been about 6.30pm as we all had to be in for no later than 8pm) we made a "den" out of some branches and a few loose bricks on some waste ground. As we talked in hushed tones about our next proposed daring deed (playing cricket WITHOUT pads on) we abandoned our den as several other gangs (slightly tougher than ours) had walked past laughing and pointing at us. 

Eventually, Sean grew some balls and left the gang after a power struggle one night over who was going to eat the last Custard Cream. This meant we had to change the name of the gang so I had the bright idea of saying "why bother changing the whole name? we can just take Sean out of it". This meant that from then on our gang was called "CRAP".

We continued not getting into trouble and being outrageously polite to our parents for the next year or so then decided to disband our gang. We finished as we had started by all completing our homework on time.