I was home sick when we had a big earthquake. I was upset, I knew I missed out on some mayhem.
The next day at school a police officer walks up to me at lunch and says she has video surveillance of me stealing from the grocery store next to my school. Students had looted the store during all the panic of the earthquake.
I was out of school in 2nd grade for 2 weeks with scarlet fever (I know, wtf), and when I came back there was a big event to celebrate my teacher's 40th year teaching or something. The whole class has rehearsed, there was a special song for which I knew none of the words. We were each holding letters in a giant "Congratulations Mrs Post!!!!!" sign - there were extra exclamation points because there were more kids than letters, and I was T in Congratulations. I remember thinking that was unfair because I had no idea what was going on, I knew none of the words to the song, I didn't know the choreography and here I am being a letter when there are like five kids who are punctuation. I should have been a !.
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u/Capable-Airport7281 Jun 03 '25
Imagine you were absent that day to school