<p>when you lose your wallet--worried that your identity is going to be stolen--only to find it several hours later. Happens every time.</p>
<p>I left my wallet in the library last week. Someone found it and took it to the desk and didn’t steal anything, and I regained some faith in humanity.
Then a few days later my cousin left her wallet in a clothing store and someone took the money. Faith lost.</p>
<p>I lost my wallet and someone started using my library card. Those twisted monsters.</p>
<p>-when you flip open your SAT booklet and find the hardest essay topic in the world.
-when you know the teacher’s on to you.</p>
<p>I was one of the strongest students in my AP World class last year, and I always produced really detailed, professional work and I always remarked intelligently in class discussions - one day, I wasn’t really paying attention to the “Do Now” assignment because I had half-a**ed the reading the night before, so I wrote down some random answer - the prompt was “Who was the stronger leader, Peter or Catherine?” and I wrote down Catherine.</p>
<p>Everyone else wrote down Peter, so I knew I really blew off the reading pretty badly - then my teacher asked if anyone had put down Catherine, I wasn’t going to raise my hand, but my friend next to me was like “She did!” and he pointed to me. He made me explain why I chose Catherine. I had literally no idea. My entire life flashed before my eyes.</p>
<p>Perhaps this goes without saying, but it became pretty obvious 10 seconds into my explanation that I had no idea what I was talking about. </p>
<p>The whole ordeal was terrifying.</p>
<p>I remember once in elementary school we read this children’s book and we were asked to write down adjectives to describe the villain and I put “fun-loving” or something because I was trying to think outside the box and see him as something other than just a Stock Bad Guy and maybe it was all just a misunderstanding. Everyone thought I was weird.</p>
<p>When you’re taking a math test and you forget a formula you have to use on the problem…
And the problem is worth 8 points.
Story of my life.</p>
<p>@halcyonheather
That’s actually pretty creative!</p>
<p>@AnImpAffliction
Try 25 points.</p>
<p>When your teacher catches you for plagiarizing after you plagiarized an essay</p>
<p>@1sparkle2, it was an 8-point problem out of a total of 15. So…</p>
<p>@Jwen556 um LOL</p>
<p>when you first get the feeling of nostalgia and you realize you’re not a kid anymore.</p>
<p>The split second when the plate slips out of your hand.</p>
<p>When the teacher gives you an answer to a 15 point problem on the test beforehand and you’re one of the ones to forget it.</p>
<p>When you wake up to find that you overslept.</p>
<p>When you accidentally murder your new kitten.</p>
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<p>I hope that was a joke…</p>
<p>It was. It was an old kitten.</p>
<p>When you fall back slightly too far in your chair</p>
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<p>And it wasn’t an accident either.</p>
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<p><em>scoots chair far away</em></p>
<p>Now that I feel a little safer…</p>
<p>When you see a spider, look away, and when you look back, it’s gone.</p>