私が通っていた学校は進学校ではあったが、県内トップという訳でもなく、中途半端であった。
そういった中途半端な進学校にありがちなことだが、親に勉強させられていた小利口さんが、自我の目覚めとともに不良的行動をとるようになる。
私の周囲は万引き常習者だらけであった。
毎日、学校にパン屋が来て販売してくれたのだが、学生が一度に押し寄せるため把握しきれず、不良学生に隙をつかれて万引きの被害にしょっちゅうあっていたようだ。
学生たちは金に困っていたわけではない。
その当時は「不良」的にふるまうのが格好良いとおもう風潮があり、万引きなどに手を染めるのはファッション感覚であったようである。
ある学生（医者の息子）は「万引きして食べるパンは格別にうまい」などと言っていたらしい。
The school I attended was a preparatory school, but it was not the top school in the prefecture, nor was it even halfway.
As is often the case at such halfway decent schools, the smart kids who had been forced to study by their parents began to act like delinquents as their egos were awakened.
My surroundings were full of shoplifters.
Every day, a bakery would come to school to sell their wares, but they couldn't keep track of all the students as they came in at once.
The students were not in need of money.
At that time, there was a tendency to think it was cool to act like a "delinquent," and shoplifting seemed to be a fashion statement.
One student (the son of a doctor) was said to have said, "The bread you eat after shoplifting is exceptionally good.
