You don't realise something was odd until it's questioned by others. This happened this weekend when I was talking about Blue Lamp Discos. These were discos organised by the comunity relations branch of the RUC. They were a regular event at my primary school. They would come along with a whole disco set up;lights,sound smoke machine the works. The girls would all bop along to the likes of Tiffany's I think we're alone now,(I picked this song because of a teacher we had called Mrs Spence, she was taking us for a music class in p4 we were aged about 7, she asked us what was number one at the time, Tiffany I think we're alone now was the song. She smugly announced that in twenty years time we'd never remember that song, like she could with all the Beatles numbers of 20 years ago. So Mrs Spence it's now exactly 20 years and I still remember Tiffany I think we're alone now.) while us boys all stood against the walls watching and laughing at the girls.
The police were sneaky sods in Portadown at that time, I remember playing in the estate behind where I grew up and the local Bobby was accompanied by a few soldiers on this occasion. The soldiers approached us and allowed us to look down the sights of their rifles and then asked us really subtle questions like Have you ever seen anything like this in any of your relatives houses? Aye dead on.
The community relations branch also organised trips for local groups, Scouts, Boys brigade, Anchor boys etc. You got a tour of the police station, usual locked in the cell and a drive in the back of a land rover stuff. Then they took us all into a room and asked us who would like a souvenir of their trip, they took two copies of all our finger prints giving us one back to keep as a memento.
So in one fell swoop they had the prints of every 10 year old who was a member of a club in Portadown at the time.
Update
Just checked and it was 1988 when Tiffany was number one, meaning I was twelve, this just doesn't tie up with my memory.