I read about the ban against "Bless you." Isn't that just good manners? Please.
My story is not really about a "rule" being broken, just an inflexible headmaster:
I went to a small private school in San Francisco. It was my sophomore year, and the school's first year, a brand new school. The headmaster was a very serious guy. That winter, we had a fluke snow shower right at lunch time (It snows in San Francisco maybe once every fifty years, if that.) It was so exciting, all the students poured out and started scooping snow off parked cars and stairways, packing snowballs and tossing them at each other. When the bell rang, the headmaster ordered everyone in. We BEGGED him for ten more minutes, the snow was melting fast and we wanted to enjoy every moment of this unique and amazing event. He wouldn't budge. Like I said, he was a very serious guy. Anyone who refused to come in would be "campused" until Christmas break (two weeks), meaning no lunch privileges off campus, and detention for 45 minutes after school (plus an embarrassing announcement of our "crime" at assembly the next morning, but we didn't know about that.) I tried to organize a resistance, but it ended up being only me and my best friend, alone in front of the school, dismally lobbing snowballs at each other. I changed schools the next year.