Well this is rather embarrassing, but in kindergarten there was a girl who I didn’t like, she was mean (at least that’s how I remember it, but details are sketchy) so I stole her cool pencil. Of course I was new to crime and knew I’d done wrong so I didn’t have the guts to keep it as a trophy but threw it in the dumpster to rid myself of the albatross.

I can’t remember how they found out, maybe someone called them, but I still remember the “stealing is wrong” talk I got that night and crying and crying on my Dad’s lap about it all.

Haven’t stolen a pencil ever since

I was shopping at the dollar store one time for a class project and hadn’t though ahead to grab a cart of basket. My arms were getting pretty full, so I slipped a couple of hair ties around my wrist, completed my shopping trip then left.

I didn’t realize until I got home that they were still there, like some odd jewelery and that I hadn’t paid for them. I returned with my head down and 3 dollars in hand to make it right.

The most embarrassing thing? I was 16. The other embarrassing thing? The lady at the counter made such a big deal over it and was so loud I stood there feeling like I’d committed grand theft auto. It was awful, everyone was looking at me.

I was in 2nd grade and had to go to the little girl’s room. My teacher told me no I had to wait until recess. I bounced my leg forever and asked again. She said, “No. As a big girl you should be able to wait.” I sat down and tears started streaming down my face. I could no longer hold it and I went. She dismissed for recess and I didn’t budge. She looked down and saw the puddle. She was angry and asked why I didn’t let her know how bad I had to go!! Duh! I only asked you twice. She called mom to bring new clothes and my mother got on her case! She reminded the teacher that we were still only 7-8 years old. The sad thing is back in elementary school each classroom had its own bathroom! I should have disobeyed and went anyway. That would have saved me alot of embarrassment because we all know that kids never forget!

I can’t think of any right now although I KNOW there are many. I just wanted to say that I also hid my veggies in my milk carton ! I never met anyone who did that! My teacher would stand at the door and check to make sure that we had eaten our veggies. He figured out my milk carton trick so then I would wrap my banana peel around them. Then, I would have to hide them in my mouth which was gross! Especially peas. I hated peas the most! Unlike you, I still don’t like veggies. My kids do, go figure!

Gee, I have so many…One time in middle school I walked in late to class, with all eyes on me… and my zipper was down. Everyone started to laugh.

Another time, a girl told me this classmate of mine had a crush on me, so I made retching noises. the teacher didn’t like me for some reason, so she made me make the retching sound over and over, about 10 times.

Another time, my mother made ME go apologize to a girl in my neighborhood, for defending myself against her backstabbing. My mother is one of those people who is always trying to impress others… she made me apologize in front of her and the other girl’s mother, then sat there talking for over an hour with the other mom, I was made to sit on the floor like a baby in the kitchen while they talked about me.

One of the hardest to live down was losing the skirt of my costume on stage during a dance recital. That was an ugly realization when I recognized that it was mine!

Hugs,
Holly

And I thought I had the last first grade teacher from the stone age…!!! Seems there was plenty of neanderthal teaching to go around. Makes ya wonder what stories our kids will have to tell.

I’m sure I can think of a few…I may be back to write more but for now, I have to say I also hid my vegetables..but I would put them in my POCKET!!! ha ha. I remember excusing myself during dinner at home to go to the bathroom where I would dump the contents of my pockets (and my mouth if I had vegetables in it) in the toilet and flush it down. My parents knew I’m sure…..I thought I was so smart..but not smart enough to realize the brocolli or whatever had soaked through my pocket and was showing through on my pants. I was such a smart kid - NOT!!!

My most embarrassing moment was in the third grade. I had brought an apple for recess, but had forgotten to take it out on the playground. So… I ate it when we got back in the classroom. Unfortunately, that was against the rules and my teacher caught me. She made me stand up in front of the whole class and finish eating my apple. To this day I blame her for my discomfort if I have to be in front of a crowd and talk!

What a great idea for a post. If I get a chance I have a funny one I’ll write this week.

Yay to the Moms who yelled at the bad teachers! That’s so cool…mine wouldn’t have done that for me.

My embarrassing story: I was in the 3rd grade and I was NOTORIOUS for NOT doing my homework. I learned everything in class and just didn’t ever do my homework. Drove my teachers nuts that I could pass their class with flying colors and not do the homework…but I digress. Back in 3rd grade, Mrs. Grey didn’t like it that I didn’t do my homework, so she made me stand up in front of the entire class for the whole class period. But that’s not the embarrassing part. The embarrassing part was that in PE class right before Mrs Grey’s class I had for some unknown reason thought it would be cool to take both of my socks and put them on the same foot. So on one foot there were two socks and the other foot had none. Not a big deal UNTIL you’re standing in front of the entire class and Angela (the most popular kid) points out to you that you have on only one sock…and I have to try to explain (without making any noise) that I do have two socks, they’re just both on the same foot.

embarrassing story #2: Jump to 8th grade. (I went to the same school for K-8th grade with most all the same kids.) There was a new boy at school…”fresh meat” and I had a crush on him. We had been talking and it seemed that possibly he might decide that he liked me enough to “go together”… but one morning I learned that he had decided that he liked Laura better than me. He explained later that he chose her because he thought that she might be more willing to go farther than I would. But before he explained that to me, I spent the entire 1st period of school in tears. Then we got to second period to my most hated class of all. The teacher was handing out our tests and he says to me “I have bad news and even worse news for you Renee. The bad news is that Henry decided he like Laura better than you. The worse news is that you failed this test.” Yes, I know I mentioned before that I learned everything in class…well everything that I was interested in. Louisianna civics was NOT interesting.

I had a 1st grade teacher who punished me for something I didn’t do. Put me in the hallway until I told her the “bad” word I had said. I didn’t say one so I had no idea. I finally just started rattling off all of them that I knew hoping to hit the one she wanted to hear. By the time she let me back in the class room I was so upset I couldn’t stop crying. The girl who told the teacher I had said a bad word felt so bad she admitted it and apologized to me. The only part that was embarassing was how upset I was in front of my friends.

I used to get sick when forced to eat stuff as a child too. My parents were the ones forcing me though. They deserved any messes they had to clean up for that.

Remember those wrap around skirts, playing jump rope with them is not a good combo. Mine came off mid-jump, and I ran straight to the bathroom to put it back on! I think I was in the 3rd grade.

lucky you. My mom used to make me eat my green beans. i’ve rebelled, and don’t eat them even now.

I had so many embarrassing moments as a kid. I’m not brave enough to tell them. My mom stood up for me lots at school though.

First of all, your mom is awesome!!! Love that she chewed the teacher out…
my most embarrassing story.. hmm… there are so many… in 2nd grade, every day after recess and we had to stand in line next to the building till the teacher got there, decided we were quiet enough, then she’d let us in. If you got out of line the teacher would yell at ya. I was really sick. I needed to throw up - so I got out of line. She yelled at me to get back in line NOW. So, I did. But my stomach gave a lurch… so, I made a run for it… the teacher yelling at me to get back in line and me leaving a lovely trail of puke along the way. If she’d just let me get into the bathroom in the first place I would have made it. To make matters worse, I had been at the back of the line. So, each of my classmates had an opportunity to see me at my best!

Oh dear I’ve got so many that I try to block out of my mind but I think I have blogged about them before. One that immediately comes to mind is when I peed on the floor in kindergarten because we were fingerpainting and I was having too much fun and didn’t want to have to go to wash my hands so I could go to the bathroom.

my cousin did something similar when forced to eat a tomato - fair enough I think.

When I was about 8/9 as one of the older kids at primary school I had to help the little kids at lunchtime and sit with them. One of them started to flick peas with a fork…. now the correct response would obviously have been ‘don’t do that - you’ll get in trouble’… my response was ‘it’s much better if you use a spoon, look!’. At which point I fired a brilliantly fast missile straight into the back of the head teacher’s scull. I spent the rest of lunch standing in the corner….

You have a terrific mom. It’s wonderful of her to defend you against your teacher. In the first place, I don’t think she had any right to force you to eat your food and certainly not infront of the class like that. Shame on your teacher for embarassing you deliberately.

I would have done the same if I learned the teacher forced my son to eat something he didn’t want.

I remember when I was a young girl, probably 8 or 9, I was wearing my new birthday clothes that my mom bought for me. After having some cake, me and my playmates went biking. I fell off my bike and had mud all over my new clothes. I went home looking so dirty and had to pass by the living room for everyone to see. My mom, always kind, didn’t scold me. She helped me remove all the dirt and have a quick shower to put on a new set of clothes. I was embarassed but my mom’s kindness made me feel better.

On a different note, thanks for the comment on my blog. I’m sad I couldn’t go kiting earlier but perhaps later when the weather permits. If not, I guess we’ll do it after holy week.

Take care!

Oh man, I used to love the “hide the veggies in the milk” trick, thanks for bringing back the memory.

Carnival of Family Life #49…

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Embarrassing Childhood Story…

When I was younger, I hated to eat vegetables. My mother never forced me and felt that one day I would learned to eat them on my own. She was right. I love vegetables now.

Anyway, back in Kindergarten, I used to hide my vegetables in my empty milk car…

Good for mom!
Makin’ a sweet, innocent, little girl eat slaw for cryin’ out loud!
And school cafeteria slaw to boot!

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great story! you’ve got a good mom!

i can’t think of anything off the top of my head - i think i’ve tried to forget the most embarrassing moments of my life - but if i think of something i’ll post about it!

Awww poor things.

Well, I remember a time in Kindergarten when we went to the library. I wasn’t feeling good, and I was known as the kid who if she didn’t want to do something she would go to the nurse. Of course, my days of crying wolf had caught up to me, but this time it was real. We had been reading a book about the grossest lunch. A friend of mine told me the book went something like: “Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts, mutilated monkey meat, chopped up little parakeet.” Of course, my stomach was queasy, and I told the teacher I REALLY had to go to the nurse. She told me to be quiet and sit down.

Well, I ended up vomiting all over the school rug. I still don’t hear the end of it from my friend. Not to mention the fact that my teacher STILL didn’t let me go to the nurse, and made me sit through the rest of the school day feeling terrible!

Good story, and yeah, the teacher was stupid for even thinking about making you eat something obviously rancid.

This story takes place when I was in kidnergarten. I wet my pants… and shirt, and told the teacher. So, I went behind into the little bathroom area, which was a kind of intersection with two bathrooms, (one boy, one girl) and on the other side was another classroom. I went in that room, was inside the bathroom, and I took off the wet clothes. I had to take off my shirt, shoes, pants, and underwear… nobody noticed anything beforehand, and only the teacher saw me naked like that… but the fact that my entire wardrobe changed in my absence was noticable to say the least.

once in 5th grade the whole grade went swimming and i was having a boner because of seeing my crush in a tight swim suit so it was all going good until the talk about safety and when it was over everyone raced to get mats including me but when I stood up the tightening stap on my shorts broke and my shorts fell down and i triped and the shorts flung into the pool so the whole grade including my crush saw my boner.

once in 5th grade the whole grade went swimming and i was having a boner because of seeing my crush in a tight swim suit so it was all going good until the talk about safety and when it was over everyone raced to get mats including me but when I stood up the tightening stap on my shorts broke and my shorts fell down and i triped and the shorts flung into the pool so the whole grade including my crush saw my boner.

You know the teacher can’t do that.
Just last week. My twin brother Billy (were both 16) and I love to play in the mud. Our parents don’t care (they were gone for the weekend . We don’t go on any vaction that has a pool or have a pool so we go in our underwere. We have a big mud pool. (thats what we call it) So we started to throw mud at each other. He got some in my face so when I got it off my face. He was behind me. Then he took off my boxers and ran off. So i’m in the mud naked. Then he come back. He said he hid them. I grab his and ripped his off. Then I threw them over our next door peoples fence. Then he gets in the mud. The he ask why did I do that. I told him he did to me. So got out. (Thank god I was coverd in mud every where no one could tell if I was were anything.) Then I tried to get to our porch. Then some of my friends came. They saw me and came over. They started to talk to me The mud starting to slide off. So one of them said why are you covered in mud. I told them I was out in the mud. So one them got away with out me noticeing. Got the hose out and got me. Then I turned around. He got ALL the mud off me. So the made fun of me. But did not make fun of my size. Because one said it was bigger the his so. (HA to him) Then they took alot pics I told them about my brother so they got him did the same thing. I went with forgetting i’ m naked. Then they took pic of him. then blaced mailed him I got rid of my pics they took. so i wish that neverd happen

Well…I was in the mall shopping with my mom when she said I had ketchup on my face so she spit on her hand and smeered it all over my face! HOW EMBARRASSING!!!

Well, in 10th grade! i wet my pants in english class! I had to use the bathroom and we had a substitue teacher that day that wouldn’t let me go. I tried to hold it but i couldn’t and i started peeing in my seat! :o(