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Originally Posted by Kitsa
It didn't happen on Valentine's, but I was similarly hosed in 6th grade. I won the school spelling bee and went to the regionals. Then I had to have surgery and was homeschooled the rest of the year. When I got the yearbook, they put the runner-up's picture in next to "Winner, School Spelling Bee".
God was I pissed. I mean, I was there for school pictures, I was the one who won, why the hell did they use the other girl's picture? I never felt the same about her after that. Not that we were great pals to begin with.
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Aw, that sucks

I guess on the upside, you must have had a wonderful vocabulary.
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I missed all the good stuff that year, including the token Troubled Kid freaking out in class and throwing his desk at the teacher.
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I heard of a guy who did that, but it wasn't genuine. The Modern Drama classes were having Character Day, which was when you invented a character and spent the day dressed and acting like them. This boy was in a different class, but my teacher told us that he was really into character to the point of throwing a desk across the room. I knew him, he was the most popular actor in the Theater Department. Really good, always got the leads.
I went as my cousin Iris, who was a Trekkie (as I had little knowledge on Star Trek, I realized later that I probably should have done a different one). Most of my friends had little patience for this change in identity (I wasn't allowed to tell them about it) and threatened basically to smack me if I didn't knock it off. As a result, I hung around my two friends that
did already know what I was doing.