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Whether we like it or not, there are many rules we have to live by. From laws to regulations to unwritten customs everyone should be aware of, they surround us everywhere we go. But while some of us are team players who follow these suggestions and hope they will serve us well, others believe they should be broken, bent, stretched, or at least somewhat creatively interpreted.
However, there’s a whole other category of people who decide to spread a bit of chaos into our lives and almost beg for others to enforce brand new restrictions for their actions. So recently, Redditor TheBlackTemplar125 decided to find out what these troublemakers did to achieve such outcomes and raised a question on Ask Reddit: "What rules were put in place because of you?"
People rolled up their sleeves and delivered over 16K responses full of hilarious examples and the stories behind them. We have combed the thread and picked out some of the best replies that stood out from the crowd. Continue scrolling, upvote your favorite ones, and don't forget to share your own experiences with us in the comments!
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#1
Military school I went to. After me, an adult is required to check the parade cannon to ensure it is clear, and closely monitor the students as they load it.
There is to never be another flaming rubber chicken flying over the parade grounds ever again. Circa 1989.
ColdBlooded 3 years ago
@ellielily , go get a life. and BTW a flaming rubber chickens sound very nice indeed!
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#2
In middle school i would use sharpies to tattoo myself, other kids thought it was cool so i started charging $1 per drawing wherever they wanted. Principal found out and after i wouldn’t stop, she put a ban on sharpies for the entire school. even the teachers couldn’t bring them in. i’m a tattoo artist now.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
What a stupid and shortsighted rule! Sharpies? FFS, it’s not like the “tattoos” were permanent. Some nail polish remover, soap and water, and a little elbow grease and they’re gone. Otherwise, they eventually wear off. I mean, BFD, it was just kids with temporary tattoos. No teen pregnancy, no drug use, no violence, just pictures. Unless they were pornographic or contained foul language and/or gang-related code, the principal way overreacted. She should’ve given it some deeper thought before deciding to punish everybody, including teachers and staff, for something relatively harmless.
ColdBlooded 3 years ago
BTW I find that hand sanitizer works just as well (yung boy here😁)
Load More Replies... Historyharlot93 3 years ago
Teachers and administrators need to choose their battles more wisely. Kids are gonna be kids, and Sharpie tattoos are a pretty innocent type of wild oats to sow.
pusheen buttercup 3 years ago
What is it with people and punishing independence. Sure tell him to quit sharpie-ing on people (chemicals are dangerous) but at least try to figure something out for him.
PixelShroom 3 years ago
I did the exact same thing, except my school didn't ban sharpies Bradshaw they knew i would just use subs other brand.
#3
I got the Ryan’s Steak House buffets in Louisville, KY to put baby changing stations in the men’s bathrooms back in the 90’s.
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
Op posted this on Reddit. You're saying this to no-one
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glowworm2 3 years ago
This one isn't so much a troublemaker as it is beneficial for fathers who need to change their babies.
ChickyChicky 3 years ago
Replying to ZentheOgre, please name one woman who feels a challenge to her gender role when her male partner changes a diaper.
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It's no secret that craving for independence and autonomy is almost wired into us from a young age. After all, one of the very first words we learn in life is "no." But while it can serve us well and help us lead a fulfilling life, it can also awaken the inner rebel within us to loudly protest any request that comes our way. To learn more about our urge to revolt and refuse to take orders from others, we reached out to Dr. Simon Rego, Chief of Psychology at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
"It’s not that people don’t like being told what to do," he told Bored Panda. "It’s more about whether what they are being told to do aligns with their particular 'rules' (i.e., beliefs) about things." The licensed clinical psychologist explained that the closer these demands line with our own set of "rules," the less bothersome it feels. However, he added that when others require us to do things that clash with our own belief system, it tempts us to act out (i.e., break the rules), which could potentially get us into trouble.
#4
School dress code. Girls must wear skirts. We lived in the country. Kids had to walk a half mile on a dirt road to catch the bus. Told the school that in cold weather my girls would wear warm clothing including pants. The changed the dress code.
Hogh school wouldn’t let my daughter take auto shop. I talked to the school. They let her in and the following year auto shop was open to all.
These incidents occurred in the 1960’s
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
When I was in 6th grade, in 1971-1972, mini skirts were still in style, and we wore them with knee socks. But when it was really cold, our legs just froze. Now, back then elementary school was still first through sixth grades (junior high was seventh to ninth, and high school was tenth to twelfth). As sixth graders, we were the oldest in the school, so set the style for the younger kids. Being fed up with the dress code forbidding girls to wear pants, all the sixth grade girls decided to break it, and designated a day when we would ALL wear pants in protest. That day came, our legs were nice and warm in pants, the school administrators realized the world was not going to come to and end because girls weren’t wearing skirts, and that part of the dress code was broken. My first act of civil disobedience (but far from last, as I still protest against anything I consider unjust), and it was a heady experience!
Puck 3 years ago
My grandmother and her sisters convinced their father to allow them to wear pants in the 1920's. They had to cross a long bridge riding their bikes to school and the wind would go under their skirts showing their legs. My greatgrandfather considered that a good reason to wear pants. 😁
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Grace Austin 3 years ago
My school still makes us wear skirts, and the boys have the option of shorts or pants. In the winter we don’t get snow, but it’s really windy so we have to struggle to keep our skirts down
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
I remember going to school and seeing some kids that went to the private school waiting in the winter cold for their bus in skirts with bare legs. Thought how unbearable it would be if I had to dress like that.
Grace Austin 3 years ago
It is, the wind blows up your skirt and freezes your legs 🥶
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My School At That Time Made A Girl Wear A Paper Dress From The Art Class
Apollo 3 years ago
My grandma did a similar thing when my mum was about 7 but she slapped the principal and threatened to report him to the police when he said that pants aren't appropriate for girls and that they distracting as in a s*xual distraction. This was in the late 60s. My mum and aunt say that he was creepy and he was fired a few years later.
#5
As a kindergartner I once fell asleep in the bus. When I woke up the bus was in the garage and I had to yell to get someone to get me out.
So to this day every bus driver in my school district needs to walk to the back of the bus and check every seat before they park the bus.
Seems like a good rule to have.
Dan Padgett 3 years ago
I did this as an adult. Worked a night shift and fell asleep on the bus home (about an hour away). Woke up in the depot. The driver was nice enough to drive me the 15 miles home.
Alethia Nyx 3 years ago
In Australia this is supposed to be a rule on every school bus, because it is dangerous, children have died left on buses out in the sun.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Should’ve been the rule from the get-go, for all public transportation that is parked in a locked garage or train shed overnight—-and most especially with school busses.
Flash Henry 3 years ago
I got onto the wrong bus after my first day of school in first grade. (Because for some reason no one thought a bunch of 5 and 6 year olds should be shown which bus to take, so I just guessed). I also did not know my address or phone number, and by the time the bus driver got me back to the bus depot and called the school, everyone in the school office had left for the day. I have no idea how the guys at the bus depot eventually figured out where I lived. I just ate cookies and watched TV until the nice bus driver drove me home. After that, you had to show the driver your bus pass when you got on, to make sure you were in fact on the correct school bus.
DC 3 years ago
I once fell asleep on a train on the destination. I wanted to go there anyway ... I walked through it from back to front, and to back again, found no one, pushed a button meant to connect me to someone, no one there (I think this was a connection INSIDE the train only), and emergency opened the door. It beeped alarmingly, but no one came after I waited a cigarette's time, I just went away. Nothing happened afterwards, never heard or saw any again.
TheElderNom 3 years ago
If it is like our trains then yes, emergency goes to the driver, and if they've left the train no one will get any message. Same with emergency opening doors. But of course we are supposed to freaking check the trains before parking them, before leaving the last station/platform to be precise. I would recommend calling customer support (partly to inform them of the open door, partly to get them to make certain they check the trains before leaving) and be very careful when leaving the train since there can be moving trains about.
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They’ve been checking buses where I live since I was a kid(I’m 40 now) for the same reason! My ex boyfriends daughter fell asleep once on the bus and the driver found her still sleeping when he did his walk through. I had to drive to the bus garage and get her, lol!
Tim Douglass 3 years ago
My grandfather drove school bus for a while - think pre-WWII - one day he got back to the bus lot and there was a little boy still on the bus, maybe 1st grader. "Why didn't you get off at your stop?" "I wanted to find out where the bus went after it dropped me off." Granddaddy was good with that, but the kid didn't actually know where he lived, so they had to re-trace the bus route until they got to his stop!
Melissa Walsh 3 years ago
I wonder if my old bus system did this. Fell asleep and woke up at a different school 30 minutes away from mine. (Our bus was used for different districts) driver had to take me back. Was maybe 10 or 11 at the time.
#6
Back in the day a radio station had a weekly trivia contest. The prize was a free pizza and movie rental.
Somehow my mom figured out which book they were using for the trivia questions. She bought it and memorized all the answers.
Each week we would call in immediately. Sometimes we were the first but even if we weren’t it didn’t matter because other people were usually just guessing. We won almost every time.
Even though we changed up who would actually make the call they eventually figured out we were all from the same household. So they made it a rule you couldn’t win if your family had already won in the last month or whatever.
Up till then, we enjoyed a lot of free pizzas.
donna peluda 3 years ago
I did that before internet was everywhere. We had a dial up connection at work really high tech for an office at the time. I listened to the radio and they had a weekly sponsor normally a restaurant I one 7 or 8 free dinners for 2. They would post me the vouchers, snail mail!! I changed my name every time and used work, home, mums and my GF address
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
Mine isn't quite that good, but my former husband and I kept winning radio contests - after we were divorced.
According to Dr. Rego, if it’s a mild clash with a less important belief, "we may feel a mild emotion (annoyance). If a bigger clash with a more important belief, we may feel a more intense emotion (irritation, anger, rage)." He thinks that the cause for these behaviors is mostly related to how strongly and rigidly we hold our views. For example, "How important is the belief and how flexible are we with the idea that our beliefs are the 'right' ones and the 'only' ones that matter."
Psychologists call this need to revolt a psychological reactance. Essentially, this feeling emerges from our brain’s reaction when there’s a threat to our freedom or any restrictions to our lifestyle. It is especially noticeable when new guidelines are put in place, whether at home, school, or work, often leaving us upset and frustrated. Sometimes, when our psychological reactance gets out of control, we can find ourselves in the middle of heated fights with coworkers and arguments with loved ones, which can create even more troubling problems.
#7
In history class in high school, there was about 10 of us really close friends. We would take every opportunity to make “your mom” jokes. A couple months into class the teacher made us sign a “treaty” promising to stop making fun of each other’s moms. We signed it, and started making fun of each other’s dads.
Grace Austin 3 years ago
I hate your mom jokes so much… the boys in my class do one every single time somebody says something “what’s the homework tonight” “your mom” “but seriously, what is it I have to go now” “your mom” “your the only person In the room with the same class as me so please just tell me and stop making your mom jokes” “…………….. your mom”
#8
No sign language during silent lunch punishment
My lunch period was so loud we got put on silent lunch for over a month straight. I decided the only clear solution was to teach my entire table sign language so we could still talk without getting in trouble. Apparently it was "unfair" to the kids who didn't know how to sign, so we had to stop.
KJ 3 years ago
What a stupid rule to enforce, sign language should be taught to all kids, useful knowledge to have.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
Me and my friends did this in school too but our teachers just said "well I only said you couldn't talk out loud" and we got away with it.
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Spannidandoolar 3 years ago
Surely teaching everyone sign language and having a regular "silent lunch", once a week or something, would have been more beneficial for everyone
Ewelina Rydzewska 3 years ago
Sign language doesn't make any noise, so what's the point of stopping you learning it? It's a clever solution for your situation, other students should do the same. I'm a teacher.
Lori-anne Hershberg 3 years ago
SO STUPID!!! IN A SCHOOL, THEY SHOULD BE PROMOTING THIS LEARNING, NOT STOPPING THE FEW WHO DID LEARN!!!!!
broken_guy 3 years ago
imagine if there was someone who could only communiacte in sign language in that class
#9
“No bouncy balls in the bathrooms.” In middle school we had a school store that sold supplies and these tiny bouncy balls (I still don’t know why). The bathrooms in this school were narrow and made of brick from floor to ceiling. I discovered that if you threw a bouncy ball in the bathroom as hard as you can it would bouncy until the end of time. Get 3-4 of your buddies in the bathroom with a ball of their own, you now have an epic game of life and death. It became the most popular sport the school has ever seen. People were even placing bets. When one kid had to explain that his bruises didn’t come from his parents my operation was shut down.
Flash Henry 3 years ago
The class 2 years ahead of me in high school, for their "senior prank" decided to have every single kid in the class start violently throwing bouncy balls in the hallways after first period. Bouncy balls were banned in the school until the end of time.
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
I had a cat once, Oscar, who loved bouncy balls in the kitchen. He didn’t chase it. I would throw it as hard as I could, and he would sit patiently until a bounce came near him, and BANG!, snatch it out of the air and pin it to the floor. Then he would look at me until I made it go again. I miss that guy!
Tamanna Grover 3 years ago
Can anybody explain the bruises bit? Kinda brain block reading it half sleepy
While it’s important to recognize when our rebellious side is acting out, it is okay to believe strongly in things, Dr. Rego argued. However, if you want to become better at handling your turbulent feelings, he suggested it would be helpful to be flexible with your way of seeing things. "In other words, it’s possible that many different beliefs can exist at the same time, without any of them being right or wrong. The more we are able to understand this, the less we will get upset when people don’t share our beliefs and the more willing we may be to consider someone else’s opinion when being told to do something," he told Bored Panda.
"We all have our own rules based on how we were raised and how we’ve experienced life. It’s much easier to manage our emotions by being flexible with our own beliefs than to try to force others to change their beliefs or assume that everyone sees things the way we do," Dr. Rego added.
#10
I used to work for a company that had flex hours, you could work all you want but no overtime. So I would work 4-10 hour days and then take three day weekends. That lasted for about two months before my employer made a rule that we had to be there five days a week. Then I used to come in at 4am to avoid traffic, skip lunch then leave at noon, and nobody noticed for about six months but they figured out I was not coming back after lunch and changed the policy so I could not come to work until 8am. So I started working lots of extra time and started banking my flex time and saved up about 430 hours by October (10-hours a week of OT) and was informed by HR that I could not roll it over in the new year, so I scheduled a 12-week vacation. Yeah, they made a new rule over that too. When COVID hit and I had to stay home, I figured out I could do a side gig, so I got a second work from home job and worked both until I got caught, and they laid me off. After that there was a new rule. I just like hacking the systems they set up, they were so difficult to work for that I wanted to figure out a way to make it work fo me.
Alethia Nyx 3 years ago
Errr, you were laid off for having two jobs?? Why? What kind of toxic hell hole was this.
DDmaybeandor 3 years ago
Two jobs at the exact same time is how I’m reading it.
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Then why TF offer flex hours, if they want you to be there from 8-5? Flex hours means exactly what the OP was doing; getting their work done, completely and on time, during the hours of their choice. Also, if you’re allowed to bank time off, but can’t roll it over into a new year, then they shouldn’t b***h if you have to take it all at once. That company made rules just to make rules, without thinking any of them through at all. So they’re the ones who broke all their promises—-sometimes the only deciding factor for a job offer is flex hours. If that was the case with the OP, then the company shouldn’t have offered it if they couldn’t handle it. Now, the only reason I can think of why the OP was fired for working two jobs is they were doing them at the same time, rather than consecutively. Basically, the second job hours interfered with the primary job’s schedule, and took concentration away from the first. Not a fireable offense, though, unless it was the last straw.
Emma London 3 years ago
TLDR: If workers are allowed work whenever and how much they want, they WILL arrange themselves untraditional working hours, 4 day workweeks and 12 week vacations.
Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
It’s perfectly legal to have two jobs, unless you signed a no-conflict clause? 🤷🏽♀️
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
Not everywhere, in some countries second jobs have to be approved by your first employer. And if you ask how they would ever know at all - because of tax regulations.
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Barbara Kayton 3 years ago
Let's make our employees think we care about work life balance, unless they actually try to have it.
El Dee 3 years ago
It seems they don't want anyone making use of anything that gives them something good. I had an employer try this eg you couldn't use flexi to make a new shift pattern and had to make sure you were in the office at 6pm twice a week and lots of other stuff. Turns out none of that was in the contract and when the union got involved they had to drop it all. Wanna do a four day week, no problem..
#11
Not a rule but a reminder to "please be respectful to our guest speakers". I was on a Zoom call and I didn't realize my cat umuted me when he stepped on the keyboard. When the guy asked if there were any further questions I said aloud to myself "yeah, can we wrap this s**t up so we can all get on with our lives?"
Ellie Welch 3 years ago
My cat once turned on my Zoom Camera while I was struggling to brush my hair. I didn't notice until someone sent me a private message.
Mozzarella 3 years ago
Uhhhmmm………that was my cat. He has got a horrible case of ìmpatìent-hôôman-ṯaḻk-itìś
#12
freshman year of high school, I had to give an oral presentation on a random Greek god. this was at a Christian school, for context. I got Dionysus, so naturally I spent many hours researching on YouTube how to act drunk (wasn't much of a partier, so I didn't know) and pretended to be absolutely wasted for my presentation. it was a great success but my teacher unsurprisingly banned Dionysus for the following years. it didn't help that Dionysus was basically the god of orgies and b********y too, if I remember correctly
Call Me Mars 3 years ago
Yep, Dionysus is the Greek god of wine and sex and other things its so funny.
Grace Austin 3 years ago
There was this kid in my class and we had to do presentations of Greek gods, and we got to choose but he didn’t know any of them so he chose Dionysus because he thought his name sounded cool. Im so happy that I was the one that got to tell him what his presentation was going to be on.
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Lisa H 3 years ago
The Greeks to this day have an annual celebration dedicated to Dionysus. I forget what it's called, but they take it very seriously.
That'sEndorable 3 years ago
Cinqo de Mayo? (Please don't downvote... It's a joke.)
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So, not one of the teachers at that “Christian” school realized who Dionysus was the god of? FFS, people, you’re supposed to be educators who are yourselves educated. You’re supposed to have critical thinking skills, which prompt you to think things through—-in other words, you would’ve excluded Dionysus from the list of gods for students to choose for their presentations. I only say this because so many “Christians” tend to showboat their piety by loudly condemning everything Dionysus was the god of, even though they themselves hypocritically partake of those same activities on a regular basis.
Grace Austin 3 years ago
When we did presentation on Greek gods, Dionysus was an option, and I go to a catholic school
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Axolotl King 3 years ago
Dionysus was also Bigender and Bisexual, then again a lot of the Greeks were fruity so
Puck 3 years ago
Not to mention the fact that the Gods could appear in any form they wanted, like bulls or golden rain or whatever Zeus could think of to sleep with (well, not sleep ofcourse) the person he fancied at the time.
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Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago
I did something similar once. However it ended up getting a ride to the police station for testing and social services became involved. Until the tests came back. Completely clean.
We managed to get in touch with Redditor TheBlackTemplar125 who was kind enough to have a little chat with us. When asked how they came up with the idea to raise this question on the Ask Reddit community, the user revealed that they sometimes go on the platform to read captivating horror stories. One particular tale caught the user’s attention when they noticed an unusual rule that was put in place. You see, someone in that story passed away, so others decided to create a regulation that would prevent that from happening. "That's where my idea originates," they told us.
#13
I graduated with my PhD in April 2020. As graduation was virtual, they asked us to take a nice picture that would pop up when they read our names off. The email said family that had been integral to your journey could be in your picture. So I took a picture with my dog and sent it in. The next day they sent another email that said you couldn't have pets or family in your picture. I never sent them another picture so they used it.
Andrea Owen 3 years ago
Unless it was a photo of you pointing to your dogs nuts on full display I don't see the problem.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Would they still have objected, even if you were a veterinary medicine major?
Carol Emory 3 years ago
This happened with a friend of mine. Her senior picture in high school included her Siberian Husky. She submitted it for approval, they rejected it and said no animals. She scowled about it saying "Dang dog haters!"
Adrienne Mcginley 3 years ago (edited)
Wait, first they wanted your family in the picture, then they changed their minds? I'd have sent in a full moon picture!
Zack Podany 3 years ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that someone sent something much worse, if they immediately changed their mind on "family" too.
#14
No typewriters in class. I was kind of a s**t kid and while my school allowed us to use laptops, I would play videogames. Primarily Warcraft 3. In class. No sound or anything so I wasn't being a complete nuisance, but I wasn't doing my work. A teacher told me I couldn't use my laptop. I happened to have a 1950's Remington Quiet-Riter portable, all-mechanical typewriter. It was anything *but* quiet, with all of the TAKKA TAKKA TAKKA TAKKA... DING! you'd expect from a typewriter. After one full day of studiously taking notes and doing my assignments via typewriter, my teacher said I could use my laptop as long as I didn't bring the typewriter to class.
Shelby P 3 years ago
surprised they didn't just hand this person a pencil & paper and say no tech...
Helen Witten 3 years ago
My experience using type writers of old way before they became electronic is you had to have really strong and highly trained fingers if you wanted to be fast (which was every typists goal back in the day). You will always have sore and stressed out pinkies and thumbs. I only managed to type 72 wpm. I love my laptop these days :)
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
Oh man, I can hear the typewriter sound starting up every time they start to talk. [pause] Leading up to the War of 1812... TAKKA TAKKA TAKKA TAKKA [pause]...
That'sEndorable 3 years ago (edited)
This is great, if you ACTUALLY went through with it. Reminds me of the time Ted Williams was thrown out of a game for complaining of darkness... by carrying a lit candle to the plate. EXPLANATION: In his day, they didn't have electric lighting at the ballpark, so they would call games on account of darkness, sort of like a rain delay. His great talent was being able to tell whether the pitch was going to break downward (curveball) or sideward (slider) or stay straight (change-up) by seeing the way the seams on the ball were spinning. So if it was getting too dark, he was at a particular disadvantage. The umpires had no toleration for his brand of humorous complaint.
C.Douglas 3 years ago
Got in trouble for having Mario on my calculator(TI-83 i think?) in early 00s. I just got better at hiding it
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
We had a few people put similar games on their calculators at school. So many that the rule became the teachers would wipe your calculator at the start of class or exams.
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#15
My high school biology teacher added "briefly" to all of the essay questions on his tests and quizzes because, if I was bored, I would write unnecessarily long answers in really small handwriting just to take up time.
He pointed out the word "briefly" when handing out a test and said to me, "I added that for you." So I made my next answer even longer out of spite.
Stoopham McFernybabes 3 years ago
I think this student was particularly clever and not being challenged enough at school?
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago
Doesn't say he was getting the answers right, just that he was writing long ones.
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Desiree McKinnon 3 years ago
In 6th grade I would write my 50 vocabulary words assignments in the tiniest writing I possibly could. My reasoning - if my teacher was going to make me write out 50 vocabulary words, definitions for those words AND sentences to go with them, I was going to make it as difficult as humanly possible for him to read and grade it. Think three lines of writing to each line of college ruled notebook paper. He had to use a magnifying glass.
Brenda 3 years ago
1 year we got a kind of syllabus & it listed spelling words for the year (5th grade, middle school for me). When I finished my work for the day, my teacher would send me to the library to write reports on whatever I read. About the middle of November-i got bored & began doing my spelling words. (Write each 5x,write the definition in your words & write sentences.) By Christmas break I had finished the entire year's words, along with 2 classmates. Teacher was great & laughed. All of us were in advanced English (9th grade lvl), so our advanced English teacher started giving us lists that were harder. Mrs. Nolan (5th grade) and Mrs. Sink (AE) challenged us & made it fun. Reading & writing are still 2 of my favorite things to do
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Jane Alexander 3 years ago
Why does anyone brag about their spite moves when all it does is show them as very small, sh*tty people?
Emma London 3 years ago
That's what you'll get not allowing students to leave after half of the allocated time.
TheElderNom 3 years ago
My favourite teacher would sometimes ask: "Does anyone have any questions? Not you, theeldernom." I simply had way too many questions, many having very little or nothing to do with the subject. And yes, she was still my favourite and she did take my questions when they were relevant and sometimes when irrelevant too.
Grudge-holding Treefrog 3 years ago
One of my middle school teachers had to specify how many sentences for my class to write summaries because I would sum the article up in one sentence so I could get back to reading, and my bestie would sum it up in an essay.
Flash Henry 3 years ago
Same thing happened my senior year in high school. I was a huge history nerd. My history teacher made a strict rule for essays--no more than 10 pages EVER.
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#16
You can no longer skip to the end of training videos at Wendy's.
I completed about 10 hours of this training when it was implemented, after I'd already been working there a year, in about 45 minutes.
Open, skip, skip, skip, skip, do test, rinse and repeat. I was quite proud of my "estimated time 45 minutes, time to completion 2 minutes".
My store which is a franchise location, got a call from corporate like an hour later. I didn't have to redo any of it though.
Sareaesque 3 years ago
I work for a company who specialises in producing e-learning resources. The number of projects where the clients want us to make it impossible for users to skip through materials without actually completing them, even though we have to repeatedly take the assessments to test functionality and don't pay any attention to the materials because we don't have time for that, and still manage to pass the assessments because common sense, is ridiculous
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I HATED being forced to watch training videos! I worked for TSA for five years, and we were constantly forced to watch training videos—-and always the same damn ones—-over and over, because we had yearly competency tests to pass. But you know, even if you’re not the brightest bulb in the pack, after a few months you can pretty much have that job down pat and pass those tests without having to be subjected to hours and hours of mandatory training videos, which you could only watch on TSA computers, and which could only be logged as completed by the system when the video ran from beginning to end. We got to where we’d start them running, then read a book or look at other stuff on a personal laptop or iPad until they were done—-we had to stay by the computer because there would be little tests within the video that we had to answer before it would continue (to make sure we paid attention—-but we knew the answers anyway). It was a pet “make work” procedure of the department administrators—-people who NEVER once worked the actual line.
WarpedThoughts 3 years ago
The company I worked at started doing this... guess they caught on no one was watching slides and just winging the health & safety quiz (be amazed how common sense is 90% of H&S). Now you can't take the quiz unless the whole video is watched 😞
ebonyruffles 3 years ago
My work caught on to the online safety training that we were skipping straight to the end to the quiz. Same exact questions every single year. Now we have to click through probably 200 pages in order to do the quiz. I click absentmindedly while watching TV.
Katchen 3 years ago
I’m a salaried employee and work in a regulated industry, so I have a lot of trainings that I use the skip, skip, skip, test method to get through.
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If they're showing you a training vid after you've been there for a year, you aren't doing a good job.
Dawnieangel76 3 years ago
Remember when Wendy's had salad bars? I almost died of botulism after eating at one, and after the IL State Board of Health did a phone call with me, poof! All the salad bars began to disappear.
Zack Podany 3 years ago
Either no one at corporate had to do any of this training, so they made it mandatory just because, or they had to do all of this training, so they made it mandatory to not suffer alone.
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
I did my RadioShack and McDonalds training months after working there, doing the same thing. No one cared
#17
I had to sue my school district back in high school just to leave special education after fighting it for over a decade. Special education students now have the right built into every single IEP to attend any standard education class in their grade level or below, earn the associated credits, and also go to both health education and driver's education. They could do *none* of that before the lawsuit.
Emma London 3 years ago
The school district probably got larger government subsidies for special educations kids.
That'sEndorable 3 years ago
Yup! By the way, if you want to see where racism truly screws over Black kids, look into special education. HOLY SHIP, our nations' education programs are racist as all HELL, and the teachers involved convince themselves that they are FIGHTING racism! "You can't expect Black kids to learn grammar!" ... "Math is racist!" ... "Science is patriarchical oppression!" No, that's how you get decent-paying jobs!
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 3 years ago
Thank you. There is also a law that says anything in the IEP is set and cannot be ignored and the parents have the right to dictate what is in the IEP. At my son's school, I told them they needed to have someone help him to class because he was terrible at finding places or following directions (autism.) Then I started getting notices he was late to class. When I asked if he had an escort, they said they couldn't afford it. I said regardless as to whether they could afford it (which was BS as they had all given themselves raises that year) it was in his IEP. When I mentioned this to the bus drivers, they volunteered to step in and walk the kids since they were getting paid to be on call anyway. So they changed the job description for Special Needs Bus Drivers to double as TA's.
Brenda 3 years ago
The problem is most parents are unaware of the AMA laws & how they work for students. It took months of reading & talking to professionals and other parents. The ADA Act is for anyone with any type of diagnosed disability, adults and children, work places and schools. The schools won't tell you all you are entitled to, so you have to do your research
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Patti Vance 3 years ago
very aware of this one. i have an autistic son whose graduation year was 2020. with the lockdown he couldn't get one of the required classes he needed to graduate through the hastily prepared remote curriculum. so, his counselor worked with a professor at a college and got him enrolled in a class there as well as a physic class. the college class was on comparative religion, specifically mythology, which he always had an interest but i worried about the physics class as they had lots of quizzes & such. that prof said if he could do the tests and pass he didn't have to do the quizzes. somehow he did it. the autistic mind is so unique.
Curry on... 3 years ago
Ex teacher here, who did not have special education training. The problem for me was not having enough time to devote to special educational needs in a class of 20+ mixed-abililty students that was 50 minutes long. Everyone suffered.
Brenda 3 years ago
My son's IEP required him to be in classes where the teacher had an assistant or a TA. With severe ADD, he was easily distracted and often overwhelmed by all the noises. The TA could redirect him to keep him on track &sometimes even sent him out of the room to work. And I insisted that his teachers or TA's have Sp.Ed training so they wouldn't get frustrated. Just basic ADD training would help
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Mark Melton 3 years ago
Once Administration labels you "special", you're going to remain " special". They make extra money from the Feds for every*special " student, so they make sure they have lots of you. Same All school Administration is crooked.
Brenda 3 years ago
Son's school only wanted an IEP under the 509 (or whatever its called) heading because Sp.Ed means more work for them. They knew I wasn't going to make it easy, either. Some weeks I was there every day
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Brian Stanton 3 years ago
I was in special ed (because my dad died, wtf?) and gifted! Latin in one period, see spot run in another! Broken system
Brenda 3 years ago
When my son was in school (about 15 years ago) schools got approximately $6500 a year for each student. Schools got approximately $11,500 for Special Education students,& even more for those needing additional resources (severely physically handicapped needing extra personnel etc). It took me 6 years to get my son into Sp. Ed. By the time we did he hated school because of trouble he always had. Health classes are mandatory in middle school (6th-8th grade 1 marking period each year- 6 weeks)and HS 1 semester (12 weeks). Drivers Ed was an optional after school class you had to pay for. I had Drivers Ed class but that was back in 1982-83
#18
"Don't trick your siblings or friends into eating soap."
I would cut bars of dove soap into pieces, wrap them in old candy wrappers, and pretend like they were mints. I was 8 or 9.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
I had an acquaintance that would cut up squares of paper then give them to a boy who would trip out thinking they were acid. that placebo affect in action I guess
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Should’ve told them they had to earn that “candy” by saying a really bad word. Then they’d be washing their own mouths out with soap for it.
V Martinez 3 years ago
I one used melted, white candle wax that looked like white chocolate to mess with people.
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
I put a chunk of chocolate Ex-Lax in the mint chocolate chip ice cream. Amazingly my annoying little sister always got "the big chip".
Reading through the responses in the thread proves that many people have a naturally rebellious side. How else would they come up with such shenanigans? Well, it's anything but boring to read how their actions make others shake their heads in disbelief, and TheBlackTemplar125 agrees. They told us that reading about others’ experiences and "picturing situations is fun. But people also like reading something to keep them occupied," the user said and added that they find short stories to be a great way to pass the time.
#19
"No makeup".
I went to an all boys school, and apparently this never came up until me and my emo friends rocked up in black eyeliner and lipstick.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
What some adults don’t realize—-or, more accurately, forget—-is that if you totally ban something, teenagers, especially, will double triple down on it because you turned it into forbidden fruit. What the school should’ve done is simply do nothing, unless it got out of hand and disrupted classes. As long as it remained a fad for a few students, it would go out of style as quickly as any other teenage fad.Teenagers go through these phases, where they’re just trying on different styles until they find what suits them best. We ALL did it. When I was young, the newest thing was punk rock. So we had Mohawks, and wore torn tee shirts, big safety pins, and wild colorful makeup, while slam dancing to loud shouted (instead of sung) anti-establishment music. Then we graduated high school/college, put on suits, got jobs, got married, had kids, and took out mortgages. Like every generation before us, we found our own styles, and had our own lives.
CATMONSTER2018 3 years ago (edited)
After covid, my school really went lax on the dress code. some people coming in wearing strapless crop tops and stuff. also TONS of makeup
Carol Emory 3 years ago
Our school had to instill a rule about no make up for boys and no hair dye because we had punk rockers that transferred in. Didn't work though as the cheerleaders fought it because they wanted to dye their hair in green and blue for our school colors during sporting events. We had some nasty bullies though...so many of the punk rockers transferred out after one was attacked and shoved into lockers. I hate that my school treated them so badly.
Shalini Pabreja 3 years ago (edited)
Two words - Kelsey Hightower. If the system is set up to fail you, and the rules ensure it happens; make your own rules as you go along. Guy was rejected for admissions in every good tech school, did a bunch of certifications and got his foot in. Guys now “… an American software engineer, developer advocate, and speaker known for his work with Kubernetes, open-source software, and cloud computing.”, according to his Wikipedia page. Since November 2015, Hightower has worked for Google as an engineer and developer advocate in their cloud computing division. As of January 2022, Hightower is a principal engineer with Google Cloud.
#20
I got our HR box taken away at work because the HR lady threatened not to pay us if we missed a clock in or clock out (in our defense the phones didn't always work and the clock in system was really unreliable) and I printed out the law stating that was illegal, highlighted it, and put it in her box when no one was around.
She threw an unholy fit and tried to figure out who put it in her box, and from them on everything had to be handed in personally lol.
Ogre Juan Canolli 3 years ago
That's What Is Usually Said About Someone Who Died
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
You know, a better workaround would be to just acknowledge there’s a problem, tell people to use the system to clock in and out, AND tell them to let HR know ASAP if it’s not functioning properly—-by means of a written record of emails, so HR has concrete proof the system isn’t working to take to the “suits”. It is incumbent upon a business that requires people to clock in and out to provide a WORKING system for doing so! If it doesn’t work, if it’s slow and clunky, if it’s simply unreliable, then the company needs to take it up with whatever timekeeping business they’re using, and get it repaired or replaced. If it’s the company’s fault for holding on to an outdated and unreliable dinosaur timekeeping system, then they need to f*****g pony up and pay for a new and reliable one!
Wendy Boustani 3 years ago
I L L E G A L. The Dept of Labor's assumption is that THE EMPLOYER has the burden of proving someone was *not* working. The rules around what constitutes an unreasonable burden on employees related to recording time has been hashed out over decades, also. "HR lady" - absolutely not. Someone with no HR background overseeing that role? Sure. I try to explain nicely to people that laws are " pro-employee" because common sense tells you the same thing labor cases do: in an imbalance of power between employer and employee, there's going to be abuse by employers. Not all employers, not most employers. But come on - you get to work on roads properly paved, using street laws we expect to be enforced. And that same level of societal protection should magically stop at the workplace door? Why? Give me a break.
Scott Rackley 3 years ago
I would have printed it and highlighted it again and handed it directly to her
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
Yeah, no. That didn't go over any better at my last place of employment. There were a few highly creative rude words (fartsicle being a personal fave) directed at our district weas...director (was going to say weasel, but I like weasels and wouldn't dream of sullying their good name).
#21
My older brother got a curfew enforced at Boy Scout camp when one of the leaders noticed him walking around the area in the daytime with his eyes closed, counting steps. He may have just been practicing being blind, but the adults assumed he was figuring out how to get around at night without lights so he could get into some kind of mischief. Which, knowing my brother, was also possible.
PS: If you're one of those people saying "BUT BUT BUT", you're not thinking like an 11-year-old.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
I actually had a rule at summer camp that we were not allowed to leave the cabins before the counselors in the morning. I've always been an early rise (most of the time) and I would get up at sunrise. Most of the other campers were still asleep, so I would quietly get dressed and go to the neighboring apple orchard to feed deer that were hanging out there. They were gentle and beautiful. but apparently I caused a panic because I didn't let anyone know what I was doing.
britainknee 3 years ago
My brother did the 'let's see what it's like to be blind' thing when he was in elementary school. Didn't hold his hands out in front of him or anything and went full run down the ramp out of the classroom and straight into a stucco pillar. He got stitches and a cool eyebrow scar with a really dumb story to go with it 😅
Adrienne Mcginley 3 years ago
Just one reason of many I wasn't invited back to the Girl Scouts.
Riley Warrick 3 years ago
I would be able to pull walking around in the dark very well, thanks to having an Orientation and Mobility instructor. And not to mention I have a white cane! ;)
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago
I did that.. Ehm. might still do it sometimes. But mainly so that I can walk around my house in darkness if I get up during the night.
#22
My junior high made a rule against yo-yos in class after I tried to do a trick and my yo-yo flew across the room and broke a glass beaker set. I’m sorry, guys.
Carol Emory 3 years ago (edited)
When I was in high school, the kids that took Biology complained about the dissection part that required killing frogs to poke around and see what was in them. One year, the teacher decided to use starfish since they were plentiful and not as cute as little froggies. But the dissection lab took place on a Friday. The maintenance staff didn't work that weekend because of Memorial Day on Monday. So guess what sat in the class trash all weekend in Summer Weather? We had a class next door in Chemistry. We were gagging for several minutes before the teacher said "Anyone want to have class outside today?" Some of us ran..... Guess what was banned from future dissection labs...
Zack Podany 3 years ago
I had one of those performance yo-yos with a ball bearing axle. It came unscrewed right at the start of a hard throw, raced across the carpet, and nailed my step mom in the face (she was laying on the floor). I still have that yo-yo, somehow.
#23
Local amusement park added a "no blindfolds on rollercoasters" rule because of me.
When I was in middle school, my friend and I thought it would enhance the overall experience if we blindfolded ourselves on the biggest roller coaster at a local amusement park. We got one of those pictures they take on the ride and there we are, blindfolded in the middle of a tunnel, having the time of our lives. Looking back, we easily could have strangled ourselves or worse because we literally just used scarves tied around our heads. Next year we went back to the same roller coaster and they had added a "no blindfolds or loose accessories" to the list of rules before the ride.
Larry Michael 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure you can actually blindfold yourself with... eyelids. No additional accessories required.
CATMONSTER2018 3 years ago
No eyelids allowed. Please remove before entering
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Adrienne Mcginley 3 years ago
***Gets a well-fitting eye mask for her next roller coaster ride***
#24
Local jobcenter no longer has working usb ports on public PC's because I found private files on multiple PC's with far too much private information about strangers.
Tom Hanlin 3 years ago
Not well done. That makes the PCs far less useful. They should be set up to reset the hard drive or SSD at the end of each session.
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#25
I put a croissant in one of those hotel toasters. It soon became engulfed in flames and needed extinguishing. Next day at breakfast they made a sign that said “if you’d like your croissant toasted, please ask a member of staff”
SewingStaffy 3 years ago
Why would you want to toast a croissant! They are so yummy just warmed
Andrea Owen 3 years ago
I always toast croissants but my toaster has a special holder to stop them getting stuck.
Qibli of the SandWings 3 years ago (edited)
There wasn’t a sign in the first place, so why would OP be an idiot when he/she was using it for what it’s use was intended for???
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Back in the 1980s we were allowed to pick our own high school classes. My freshman year I picked two gym classes back to back and the school said no one has ever done that before. Only one gym class was allowed to be scheduled after that. I’m kind of a legend.
Tim Douglass 3 years ago
I almost didn't graduate HS because I needed another gym credit and the only one I could fit in my schedule was an elective I'd taken previously. "Can't take the same class twice for credit!" Seriously? A field sports class? Had to design an independent study and submit it to the school board for approval. I may have the only independent study PE credit in the history of my HS. I don't think they enforce that regulation any more.
Brenda 3 years ago
We could take extra gym classes Jr or Sr years. 9th and 10th grade you had specific classes you had to take. each year & you picked 1-2 electives. Depending on how many credits you had, as long as you got your required classes done, you could take any other classes you wanted. I had enough credits at the end of my Jr year, but needed 1 Sr only class. 7 periods, 1 required class, 2 periods as an office aid, 2 English classes, French and lunch.
#27
The valedictorian speech at my high school now needs to be reviewed by the principle before the ceremony for content and length.
IDK_Something 3 years ago (edited)
Someone asked OP to post the speech. OP's response: "Oh I couldn't recreate it. It was more of a basic outline type of a plan with a lot of improv... I remember we made the crowd do the wave. I think it ended up being 45 minutes long." ETA: Punctuation. 🙃
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Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
I suggest you read about the gay valedictorian in Florida who was told that he could not mention his sexuality in his speech. So: "I used to hate my curls. I spend mornings and nights embarrassed of them trying desperately to straighten this part of who I am. But the daily damage of trying to fix myself became too much to do," he said in his speech. "So while having curly hair in Florida is difficult, due to the humidity, I decided to be proud of who I was and started coming to school as my authentic self."
Moricz said his teachers were some of the first people he went to for advice because he didn't have "other curly-haired people" to talk to and said the support he got at school helped him grow.
"Now I'm happy. Now I'm happy, and that is what is at stake. There are going to be so many kids with curly hair, who need a community like Pine View and they won't have one," Moricz said. "Instead, they'll try to fix themselves so that they can exist in Florida's climate. Screen-Sho...ca-png.jpg 
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/us/florida-curly-hair-graduation-speech/index.html
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HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
Google Florida valedictorian speech. The student is gay, and has loudly protested the "Don't Say Gay" law. He was threatened about saying anything "gay." His speech is epic. So proud of him!
#28
Well, I doubt they're teaching the class these days. But when I took "Advanced Programming Techniques Using FORTRAN", our professor added a line to all our projects stating that all programs had to be written in FORTRAN and only in FORTRAN.
When a student askef why he'd added that, he told the class to ask me. I just grinned. I still got a perfect score on the one where I had a FORTRAN shell call an assembler subroutine which did 99.99% of the work. Heh.
Stoopham McFernybabes 3 years ago
I’m hoping clever programming person out there is reading this and having a good chuckle. I am not that person.
tullotoe underfoot 3 years ago
Let's see if this analogy works: Its as if he was taking Spanish as a foreign language, and had to write a story in Spanish for an assignment. He writes a story of a Spanish kid in an English class having to write a story, and writes the vast majority of his actual paper in English, as if the Spanish kid in the story was writing it.
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The programmers among us are no doubt chuckling at this genius, the rest of us are wondering what we just read.
Trash_Panda 3 years ago
This could have been written in ancient Chinese and I would have understood more.
Robert T 3 years ago
To quote an old programming joke: COMPUTER SCIENTISTS hunt elephants by exercising Algorithm A: 1. Go to Africa. 2. Start at the Cape of Good Hope. 3. Work northward in an orderly manner, traversing the continent alternately east and west. 4. During each traverse pass, a. Catch each animal seen. b. Compare each animal caught to a known elephant. c. Stop when a match is detected. EXPERIENCED COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS modify Algorithm A by placing a known elephant in Cairo to ensure that the algorithm will terminate. ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE PROGRAMMERS prefer to execute Algorithm A on their hands and knees.
DC 3 years ago
I'm not really THAT much into any programming ... haven't done since Uni ... but, her wrote the actual program in Assembler, but used FORTRAN to set it running.
tullotoe underfoot 3 years ago
All my teachers would have failed me without explanation. He wasn't smart or cheeky, just a DB.
Doug the Special one 3 years ago
I would just like to thank everyone for the replies below for making me feel even more special
Paul Wargenstahm 3 years ago
Just love it! Reminds me when I was forced to a VMS course at a very inconvenient time and aliased all commands to UNIX style... Still got a perfect score on that.
Peter Trudell Jr 3 years ago
The worst programming cheese-around I did was with Pascal. All programs had to be written with subroutines. I put the entire program without a subroutine and called it from the main. They then clarified that each process had to have its OWN subroutine...OOPs!
#29
The school website is no longer accessible out of school hours. So you know how in harry potter, there are 4 houses and they compete or something like that? Well, our school does that. Every kid is put into 1 of 4 houses and they earn "house points" throughout the school year. At the end, whoever has the most points gets a bonus field trip to someplace cool (previous rewards include Crazy Pins, Sky Zone, and this one place with a bunch of bouncy houses). Anyways, I was poking around the school website and I found an archive of all the winners over the years. When I scrolled down there was a button that said "Add Points" and naturally, I clicked it. I was redirected to a new page that had 3 things: a dropdown, a text box, and a button. Select the house, input point value, add points. I added 25 points to my house as a test and saw that it worked. Over the following days, I'd slowly add more points. Eventually, some teacher got suspicious of my house staying in 1st place for so long (rankings typically change daily--its a very close competition). They checked the logs and saw that there were being points added after school hours. Unfortunately, they disabled access to the site after 3:00 P.M. on Monday-Friday and you can't use it on the weekends. Sorta my own fault but everything we do on our school computers is tracked so I couldn't add the points during school hours otherwise they would've found out it was me.
Raumpfleger 3 years ago
This might be the worst workaround over a security hole I ever heard about - and I've seen my share! :-D lmao
CATMONSTER2018 3 years ago
I mean. they may not have found out if it was you. depending on however many students there are in the school. I doubt they check the history of 2000 students or whatever.
Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago
The Intermediate school in the district I work at does the same thing with houses.
#30
At my elementary school, I was the third person to break my arm after falling off the track slide on the play structure. Everyone treated me as if it was all my fault… But what about Ivan and Bobby, huh? WHAT ABOUT THEM?!
Emma London 3 years ago
So was the play structure closed down after the accident or what was the point?
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
Go ask them on Reddit Emma cos that's where they posted it. They're not going to answer you here because they didn't know their post was copied. click the link under the picture.
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Raiden Prime 3 years ago
Sounds familiar...Keith is that you? It was brand new and no one ever got to play on it again!
Kokichi Oma 3 years ago
idk how my elementary's playset didnt get shut down bc the slides didn't even have sides and kids were falling off left and right-
#31
Not me, but my wife missed a lot of high school for several reasons. She’d go long periods without showing up, but would always make up the work and kept her grades up. Once graduation came around she was told she couldn’t graduate because she “missed too many days.” She argued this because there was no attendance policy in place. She was allowed to graduate after writing one final paper, but they quickly added a new policy after she left.
Raumpfleger 3 years ago
Our chemistry teacher hates me to this day for something similar: I missed most of his lessons over the year, so I had to take a final oral exam. I studied two days for it and got an A. When he announced this would then be my final grade, as it was the only grade he had, I replied - as the horrible teenager I was: If I only had known that's so easy, I would have skipped other courses too! I never saw into eyes saying so clearly "I want to kill you right now" ever again.
donna peluda 3 years ago
From my experience teacher are afraid of gifted children. I was told not to go to maths class and got and A one year simple because the teacher got it wrong most of the time and I would call her out. The next year I had a great maths teacher who could and did challenge us. We became friends out of school and competed at table tennis together. Great guy
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albernistuff 4sale 3 years ago
As a teacher (years ago) I encouraged the quicker students to go ahead and skip the boring stuff. Attendance was only required for labs and exams. As long as assignments done and tests passed, it was OK with me as I could spend my time helping those who really needed help, and not punish those who a bit quicker by having to sit through the stuff they already know. This was college level, so I assumed adults will adult.
Mark Melton 3 years ago
All public schools are ran by small minded, ignorant, selfish, power tripping nerds. They bother the teachers and the students. School administration is always full of brown nosers, and spineless jellyfish.
donna peluda 3 years ago
Not just public, my sister worked at a very exclusive privet school in Madrid, kids coming to school in limos level. The academic level was very low. She got called out for not passing a few influential kids. Eventually she qualified public school job.
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#32
"No dice or regular playing cards." My friends and I created monsters of our fellow classmates by getting dice games and poker games started at lunch. Soon people were throwing dice in the hall and calling hop bets before class. My best friend and I kept a sheet of those who owed money to the "house" (my part time job money and his chore money). Someone's mom called the principal and complained that her son owed some other students $50 and he keeps spending all his money. We would still throw dice for a while in the back stairwells or the outdoor area at lunch time. We collected about half of the money we were owed ~$350. After that we turned to selling candybars and soda from our lockers. That got banned too, but we finished selling our stash. It was a profitable senior year.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Listen, if kids that young have that kind of hustle in them, why not simply redirect it, instead of ruling against it? I personally want upcoming generations to be real go-getters, people who get s**t done. Like reversing global warming, not getting us into unnecessary and expensive b******t wars, cleaning up law enforcement, reversing really bad laws, punishing insurrectionists and domestic terrorists, and outlawing guns.
donna peluda 3 years ago
We started a racket with poker dice at school. normally there was 4 people per game. We had run the odds of getting certain combinations and stuck to playing by maths. What people didn't know is that 2 of us diagonally across were making signs to each other. made quite a bit of cash till the headmaster caught us with about 20,000 pts (£140.00) on the table. He did let us finish the game. I still have a beautiful Jack Daniels dice set with leather cup somewhere. Now I work in gaming but never gamble. I've seen the dark side for to long.
#33
No stealing from the cash drawer at work or theft in general. I wasn't the one stealing but was managing a hotel when I caught an employee taking $20 out of the cash drawer and putting it in his pocket. I of course fired him on the spot and figured that was the end of it. Two weeks later a get an unemployment notice from the state showing he filed for wrongful dismissal. I responded back stating he was terminated for theft. A week later they ask me to send them our employee handbook and training materials. Shortly thereafter I received notice that they awarded him unemployment because nowhere in our handbook or training materials did it explicitly state he was not allowed to take cash from the cash drawer. You would think that would just be common sense but apparently the state of Wisconsin didn't agree. From that moment on, it was explicitly stated in the handbook and training materials that employees were not allowed to take money or any other property that does not belong to them.
Andrea Owen 3 years ago
This is one reason why the world is going to s**t. Zero accountability for your own actions and stupid lawsuits.
Chich 3 years ago
Had an idiot destroy the engine on a worktruck. Miles from the worksite joyriding through creeks. Was going to be fired until HR got involved and said we couldn't because he wasn't told he couldn't destroy a work truck. I was very happy when a good number of HR staff were let go during a later resizing.
AnxietyRiddenMom 3 years ago
This seems a little sus to me. Even if it wasn't in the handbook, it is against the law and I don't think a person can be awarded unemployment by committing a crime. I'm napping this solely on logic and in no way on any knowledge of that particular states unemployment rules. If the person really did get unemployment, that's insanity.
Older 3 years ago
My state is an "at will" work state. People can be hired for fired for just about any reason, as long as it isn't for a discriminatory purpose. For that reason, HR doesn't get to tell us who we aren't allowed to fire.
#34
No playing with the bean sprouts during recess. Next to the playground at my elementary school, there were 2 or 3 [northern catalpa](https://www.chicagobotanic.org/plantinfo/tree_alternatives/northern_catalpa) trees. I didn’t have many friends in elementary school, so sometimes I would sit on the edge of the playground and play with the bean sprouts. By play with, I mean I would pick them up off the ground and fully peel them apart, butting any actual beans or seeds in my pockets (I might have the wrong type of tree there but you get the gist) Anyway, other people gradually started doing the same thing until eventually there were just recesses when a lot of people would just play with bean sprouts the entire time (our elementary school had strict playground rules; no running on wood chips, no playing the game wood chips, no twirling the swings, no climbing on monkey bars, etc). As more people began playing with the beans, beans would just end up in the school. Like. Everywhere. On desks? Beans. On the floor? Beans. In baskets? Beans. It became a definite issue, and with beans come bugs. As a result, they banned us from playing with the beans I still did it tho because like- beans 🫘
Man in the ceiling 3 years ago
Probably meant on top of them, but still..
Load More Replies... #35
At a ballpark I worked concessions at, they had an all-you-can-eat promo day where tickets were more expensive than usual, but concessions around the stadium were free (excluding alcohol). So I worked that day and of course it was chaos, but when the lines started dying down later in the game they started sending some of the hourly employees home, myself included. But of course, I didn't go home. After I clocked out, I stayed in the stadium and got some cheeseburgers and Philly steak and soda and found an empty seat in the crowd for the last few innings.
Next year, same promo, but new rule for staff: if you get sent home early, you have to actually leave the stadium.
Lori-anne Hershberg 3 years ago
Not fair they can't enjoy their own workplace after working so hard
#36
My elementary school was located in the center of the neighborhood, and my 5th grade class was the first to get outdoor trailers for classrooms. We'd ask for bathroom passes and then walk home. Next year they built a fence around the school
Man in the ceiling 3 years ago
Wha… did you just say you committed several war crimes back in 89? Well.. at least the bit about the dog race was heart warming.
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#37
A local self-serve frozen yogurt shop had a special for birthdays, where you pay for a small cup and can load it up as much as you want. Typically, the yogurt was measured by ounces and you paid based on the weight. In high-school, my friends and I (about 8 total) did this for everyone's birthday. We would make towers of yogurt that looked like Christmas trees sitting on a very tiny stand. Definitely over a pound of yogurt each. On the last attempt, the owner recognized us and immediately told us that we needed to pay for our yogurt. We told her that the rules were as much as we could fit in the cup. She tried fighting us, but being stubborn high-school students, we wouldn't budge. A couple weeks later, we attempted to get our service again, and they had changed the birthdays to 12 and under. No more ridiculously cheap yogurt for us.
#38
Back in elementary school I remember there used to be this kid who followed me everywhere and actively tried to hurt me. When talking to a teacher about it they went "oh, he just has a crush on you". The next day I walk up to the kid and shove him into a wall. After that there was literally a rule in that grade " Don't follow other students". That backfired poorly.
Emma London 3 years ago
Honestly the kind of harassment that's still allowed in schools would require HR, disciplinary actions, firings, lawsuits and even criminal investigations in any workplace.
#39
Male students are not allowed to wear hair accessories. We had the rule about hair not touching collars, couldn't be past eyebrows, or over the ears. I grew my hair out and just put it up in head bands. After receiving multiple detentions and fighting them and winning, the next year, they made the rule
#40
No Pokemon cards at school.
I came to school one day to show off the holographic Charizard I had gotten the day before. Later that day it went missing and I was devastated. The next day another kid shows up with one and I know it's mine. He claims he got it from a pack and his brother can back him up but I didn't buy it and others didn't too. It lead to this whole big thing and the they ended up banning Pokemon cards to avoid future situations like that. It sucked that I was partly at fault to ruin something for others, but I had suffered a great injustice because I knew that was my card.
Viola Yarrow 3 years ago
Oh cool I have that card. The guy who I traded with for it ( gave him a mega, not a very good one) is still pissed of at me (6 years ago, I had just turned 10)
Mrs S 3 years ago
Wow. So an early indicator of character, or lack thereof.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Not your fault, but the fault of the kid who stole your card and lied about it. And his brother for helping him lie.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
I know what you mean. My husband and I played Magic: the Gathering while we worked at Nintendo. We had a co-workers girlfriend baby sit our son while we had a two hour overlap in work. Not only did this girl clean us out of lunchmeat and soda on the regular (Three 2 liters in one day) but we had our Magic cards hidden in our room. Come to find out that my entire gems set, including a beta Black Lotus, went missing. Fired her immediately. She demanded her days worth of wages. I told her to ask her boyfriend for my cards back and then we will see. Her boyfriend was fired from Nintendo a few weeks later for a similar incident of stolen cards. Nintendo never banned the cards though because one of the early artists for Wizards of the Coast worked with us at Nintendo.
not your average weirdo 3 years ago
Pokemon cards got banned at my elementary school for similar reasons (but not bc of me)
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
They were banned at my primary school too- I think it was a common occurrence in the 90s.
Load More Replies... Axolotl King 3 years ago
Pokémon cards and Hatchimals were banned at my elementary school. Also playing tag because "You could accidentally push someone and hurt them when trying to tag them" also we weren't allowed to swing on the swings "backwards s" and by that they meant we had to face the school on the swings which is stupid.
Monochromatic Static 3 years ago
Got some of my pokemon cards stolen when I was 6, still mad about it lol
#41
"Golf users can no longer return an unlimited # of balls for tokens. " When I was maybe.. 12ish there was a kids outdoor play area. Go karts, batting cages and indoor was something like a Chuck-E-Cheese, token based games, etc. You could get a wrist band for maybe $15 and it'd get you unlimited rides, mini-golf and some other activities. Everything else cost tokens. When you finished golfing you'd get 2 tokens for bringing your ball back. Unlimited golf, $0.50 worth of play value inside. So my friends and I would go there, speed run two golf games and give the balls back. $1 to our pockets. Later on we started just fishing balls out of the water hazards and turning them in. Subtly at first and then in bulk later. The guys working there didn't care or actively laughed at it. So we'd have a few hundred tokens.. then we started selling them 5 for $1. We stopped buying the unlimited bands. I'd bike there and earn $25 in a couple of hours. Management eventually caught on and altered the token for ball exchange.
Jill Bussey 3 years ago
In the UK, the last ball of a game of crazy golf disappears into a non-returnable cavity located in the shop.
Tara Moov 3 years ago
Here in the U.S. too, but I like how you call mini golf "crazy golf." 🙂
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Our company operates on Discord, and a lot of people just made it so their personal discord became their professional discord rather than making a second account. It made it easy for managers, including me, to invade the lives of their employees by pinging them when they saw a green light in Discord. I wrote a long email to the directors about the separation of work and home life since we are a complete remote company. I suggested that we make it a rule for people to have a work discord that they log out of at the end of the day so that any messages sent after hours can be dealt with the next day. Since we are a remote company, people are in many time zones, and I don't want to invade someone's evening or early morning when I am in the midst of my work day. The directors agreed, and it became a thing. It is annoying to juggle two accounts, but it is better than people in different time zones being up in each other's s**t all the time. What I would like to happen is that we use Slack instead, but everyone likes Discord.
Older 3 years ago
Agreed. I love discord, but the chaos of that program cannot be understated.
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Keller Worthen 3 years ago
And with the new update, the web app lets you quickly switch between alts
Scotira 3 years ago
🤔 this was a no-brainer for me. When it was mandatory to do meetings via zoom/ discord/ webex I made accounts for work and left my personal accounts as they were. I don't deal with work stuff in my private time, ever! Same with e-mail. I didn't understand why people would want to use their personal account 🤷♀️ but it of course happend.
#43
"No more than 4 margaritas per person" on dollar margarita (& beer) night.....In college, some friends and I used to go to a mexican restaurant every Thursday (?) and often on Saturdays for $1 margaritas. As a group, we would go through A LOT....then they put the rule in....then they changed it to $2 margaritas (& $1 draft beers)
Lori-anne Hershberg 3 years ago
Well, they don't need to be losing money, they need to pay their bills and buy more stock!
Brenda 3 years ago
I used to go to happy hour after work (around 1985 or so). $1 drinks and free buffet (no purchase of drinks necessary) from 5 to 8. We'd order 2 drinks and hit the buffet, making 3-4 ]plates each, much more than we could eat. We'd bring plastic bags and put plates of whatever we didn't eat in there to take home. Because we spent so much there, the servers didn't care. Sometimes they gave us leftovers when they broke down the buffet. For the cost of a few drinks $4-$5) , I had food for days.
donna peluda 3 years ago
what kind of poison does a $1 margarita have in it. Paint remover is more expensive.
IDK_Something 3 years ago
Lol they still make a profit on it. A local place used to have a night for $2 Long Island Iced Teas. Granted, they were in 10oz plastic cups as opposed to their "normal" 16oz glass cups.
Load More Replies... #44
My younger brother was always late to school (small school) and was tardy. He figured out if he just skipped first period and went to second he was counted as being on school and no late penalty because he was at 2nd period on time. They changed this the following year.
WarpedThoughts 3 years ago
I did this. Then they put my fav. Class first and Math 😳 second. Always went to Shop in the morning... math not so much.
Danielle Hardesty 3 years ago
Always amazed me in High School I'd skip the whole day and only get marked absent for 3-4 classes.
#45
I used to ride on the bottom area of the shopping carts at our nearest grocery store. I thought it was fun to put my hands on the front of it, sliding them along the ground while the cart was moving (yes, I was gross). One sticky spot on the ground later and my hand was pulled back and thumb went right under the wheel. Crunched my little thumbnail and my mom had to remove it. Anyway, the store put up signs after that saying it’s against the rules for kids to ride in the bottom of carts.
Mark Melton 3 years ago
I'm always seeing little red neck kids being dragged along the floor as they hang on to their parents electric scooter. Keeps the floor clean, I guess.
Valisbourne Spiritforge 3 years ago
Signs say no kids standing in the basket area of the cart as well. Doesn't seem to help much
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
In Australia they have built in seats for kids to sit in in the front of the trolley.
Load More Replies... #46
Not exactly a rule, but the fact that you can easily acknowledge your favorite grocery store employee since 2015 is because of me.
The bakery folks invented a one off cinnamon roll "cake" for my kids birthday. I went straight to the store manager and told that dude how much that meant to my kid. And who exactly put it together for us.
Two weeks later, he tells me that my story went all the way up the chain to corporate.
A month later, here's a big ol' box with slips and pens...
Emma London 3 years ago
Why try to invent what would sell, when the customers can tell you what they want!
#47
My high school created a rule that no one can graduate early. Mine and my brother's fault. I'm sure they just want the tuition money.
Mark Melton 3 years ago
Wait until you realize that your university is intentionally dicking you around so that you can't get your four year degree in four years, it's going to take you five years and extra cost, for no reason. Just say no to University loans.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
Must be a private school thing. In our High School, we had about 5 -6 students that graduated early. Including one girl that graduated in her Sophomore Year.
Scotira 3 years ago (edited)
And another stupid rule! 🤬🤬 Edit: some children are just smart like that! They look at things and get it in a hot second. Then are bored out of their minds the rest of the time, fill it with mischief and then are painted troublemaker or ADHS. Let them skip a class and/ or get them proper activities. (Of course there still are those who have ADHS or are just troubkemakers)
#48
The dual major on my degree is no longer offered after I proved it would have been logistically impossible to graduate with it without my specific transfer credits.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
I got 3 bachelors in 6 years. Two Science, on Art. None of them I can use right now.
JB 3 years ago
My first degree curriculum, a brand new dual major, was “reassessed” after I pointed out in student council that the business school lecturers accused us of being lazy and unable to keep up with the workload their straight business school students had to do. At the same time, our language school professors said the same thing comparing us to their pure language students. How, said I, do you expect us to complete 100% more work in the same amount of time? We attend more classes a day than your pure students but are given the same amount of work as them. Cue the pikachu faces as each discipline realized they had totally ignored the other even existed.
#49
not me but a coworker- the whole company now requires that if you have a lanyard for your name tag it must break away on the back because she got it caught on a top shelf and it choked her
Scotira 3 years ago
OMG I hope she's OK now! 🤔 I hate those thingies around my neck so I never use them, but our company has them, too. I'll have to go and check if they break by pulling as they should!
Dolly_of TheCowboy 3 years ago
I was the reason at a previous workplace they got rid of the compulsory ID lanyards having to be worn by nursing staff on a psych ward. It was at a team meeting where they were raising the usual "staff have been noted not wearing their ID lanyards properly". I had been warned several times about it and pointed out they were still a risk and we had very unwell patients on the ward. Management said "oh but they have a break point". I proceeded to grab my friend sitting next to me. I had prepped him before that I might do this without warning if this came up. I was able to show that even with the break point, it was at the back and only 1 point, you could easily still garotte a staff member by pulling the remaining huge length backwards and crossing the lengths over. They were silent after that. I had been keeping my ID on a waist clip and at the next meeting came the announcement clinical staff could wear a waist clip or lanyard
#50
One of my favorite childhood moments sometime in 3rd grade. I got watermelons banned from handball. Watermelons in our school were when you could duck under the ball in place of hitting the ball against the wall. Only your torso or head were allowed to go under the ball and count as a watermelon. My fine moment came when I made a diving leap head first on a low hit because I knew my opponent was too far away to recover. Unfortunately I did it face first and I slid along the gritty concrete and skinned half my face off. I had to wear a face bandage for at least a month. I made it. Everyone agreed it counted as a watermelon. I won that round and had to go to the nurses office. 100% would do it again. The next day watermelons we're banned and everybody hated me while high-fiving me at the same time.
Daniel Atkins 3 years ago
I got American Football banned at recess. We played two hand touch due to the lack of safety gear and wearing uniforms. I was touched down by someone who ran full speed at me a touched me with both hands and I fell on the frozen ground cracking a rib. Afrter my Doctors appointment and my mother called the school it was banned.
What do you think ?
BonnyDK 3 years ago
I got several state laws passed inadvertently. I went to a state convention and got on a platform committee. I put in four amendments including that teachers could choose any textbook from any company that best suited their curriculum and matched the state standards for their class. We were required to only choose from about 5 mega textbook companies until then that had been highly influenced in their content. It was picked up by Congress people and made into law. 3 of the 4 amendments made it into law. I also was on a state level TEKS review committee and got teaching respect for world culture into Art, Music, Drama, and Dance statewide. I live in Texas.
Giles McArdell 3 years ago (edited)
My son's school had to completely upgrade their server security and student access rights after he wrote a simple little program that just endlessly created files and then got all his class to run it, it took down the server in just a couple of minutes.
Grace DeGroot 3 years ago
When I was in second grade, I got hit by the tire swing in the face when it had like six kids on it, so I got beat up pretty bad. The next day, the tire swing was gone.
Patti Vance 3 years ago
had a biology professor in college who had a rule that at midterms/finals you could bring your book & notes BUT they had to all be contained/attached in the book via tape staples; no loose papers/notes. biology was hard for me so i had done 3x5 cards for notes, not paper notes. so took all my cards, organized by chapter, taped together like long caterpiller, attached to an envelope then stapled to book page so it could be pulled out like an accordian but not loose. prof stood at door, examined & shook each book. got to mine which now weighed a ton & in spite of all the shaking & page flipping nothing fell out. he shrugged, said it was good planning & let it go. next semester i heard the rules had been changed to only allow paper notes limited to 5 per chapter.
Daniel Atkins 3 years ago
Went to a youth camp and they divided the camp into teams based on the cabins they were in and each team had a flag. Our counselor told us that back in the day he and his cabin stole all the flags. So that is what our cabin did. No one knew who did it because we hid our team flag too. Had to make an announcement for whoever stole the flags to return them. Next time I was at the camp no stealing other teams flags was a rule.
Kusotare 3 years ago
A national sports organization started including a form for youth competitors that their parents would assume full liability for any damage caused by their child while competing at the national championships because of me. I burned down the sauna. Nobody knows it was me, and even I didn't know I was responsible until after the fact. I knew that the fire department responded to a fire at the host hotel, and when I saw that the sauna was cordoned off, I put two and two together and realized who the culprit was.
Torsten 3 years ago
When I served in the German Army in the mid-1980s I started a competition on how fast you can go with an "Ilits" 4WD vehicle. After other drives had severe accidents the speed for this vehicle was restricted to 100kph on the Autobahn and 80kph on other roads. My record of 160+kph going downhill on the A8 from Ulm eastbound may stand to this day. ("160+" because the speedometer only went to 160.)
pusheen buttercup 3 years ago
I was told I couldn't sit with my best friend in girl scouts, so I waited till the adults were asleep in the cabin, then she and I snuck downstairs to grab a whole box of sugar and hand it out to all the other girlscouts. They were jumping off the walls for hours!
memyselfandI 3 years ago (edited)
It’s not about whether you win or lose. Sometimes it’s about how many pages you get added to the rulebook. https://images.app.goo.gl/7fi75T1uNxrS5WKP6
BonnyDK 3 years ago
I got several state laws passed inadvertently. I went to a state convention and got on a platform committee. I put in four amendments including that teachers could choose any textbook from any company that best suited their curriculum and matched the state standards for their class. We were required to only choose from about 5 mega textbook companies until then that had been highly influenced in their content. It was picked up by Congress people and made into law. 3 of the 4 amendments made it into law. I also was on a state level TEKS review committee and got teaching respect for world culture into Art, Music, Drama, and Dance statewide. I live in Texas.
Giles McArdell 3 years ago (edited)
My son's school had to completely upgrade their server security and student access rights after he wrote a simple little program that just endlessly created files and then got all his class to run it, it took down the server in just a couple of minutes.
Grace DeGroot 3 years ago
When I was in second grade, I got hit by the tire swing in the face when it had like six kids on it, so I got beat up pretty bad. The next day, the tire swing was gone.
Patti Vance 3 years ago
had a biology professor in college who had a rule that at midterms/finals you could bring your book & notes BUT they had to all be contained/attached in the book via tape staples; no loose papers/notes. biology was hard for me so i had done 3x5 cards for notes, not paper notes. so took all my cards, organized by chapter, taped together like long caterpiller, attached to an envelope then stapled to book page so it could be pulled out like an accordian but not loose. prof stood at door, examined & shook each book. got to mine which now weighed a ton & in spite of all the shaking & page flipping nothing fell out. he shrugged, said it was good planning & let it go. next semester i heard the rules had been changed to only allow paper notes limited to 5 per chapter.
Daniel Atkins 3 years ago
Went to a youth camp and they divided the camp into teams based on the cabins they were in and each team had a flag. Our counselor told us that back in the day he and his cabin stole all the flags. So that is what our cabin did. No one knew who did it because we hid our team flag too. Had to make an announcement for whoever stole the flags to return them. Next time I was at the camp no stealing other teams flags was a rule.
Kusotare 3 years ago
A national sports organization started including a form for youth competitors that their parents would assume full liability for any damage caused by their child while competing at the national championships because of me. I burned down the sauna. Nobody knows it was me, and even I didn't know I was responsible until after the fact. I knew that the fire department responded to a fire at the host hotel, and when I saw that the sauna was cordoned off, I put two and two together and realized who the culprit was.
Torsten 3 years ago
When I served in the German Army in the mid-1980s I started a competition on how fast you can go with an "Ilits" 4WD vehicle. After other drives had severe accidents the speed for this vehicle was restricted to 100kph on the Autobahn and 80kph on other roads. My record of 160+kph going downhill on the A8 from Ulm eastbound may stand to this day. ("160+" because the speedometer only went to 160.)
pusheen buttercup 3 years ago
I was told I couldn't sit with my best friend in girl scouts, so I waited till the adults were asleep in the cabin, then she and I snuck downstairs to grab a whole box of sugar and hand it out to all the other girlscouts. They were jumping off the walls for hours!
memyselfandI 3 years ago (edited)
It’s not about whether you win or lose. Sometimes it’s about how many pages you get added to the rulebook. https://images.app.goo.gl/7fi75T1uNxrS5WKP6
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