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Working in a doctor's office means helping people when they're at their lowest. Sometimes, that leads to wonderful moments when the patient is thankful for all the advice and care you provided. Other times, it means taking something out of someone's bum.
Turns out, that second one happens a lot more than you might think.
<p>Reddit user, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/XxFireflyxxX/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">u/XxFireflyxxX</a>, wanted to hear about:</p><p><em><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuld31/er_doctors_and_nurses_of_reddit_what_is_the/" target="_blank">ER doctors and nurses of reddit, what is the dumbest cause of injury you've ever seen?</a></em></p>
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For Fashion And Protection
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQ1MDMwOC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1MjkwNTU2OX0.6D-LIQ26JXH0-7OtPpG93HOtt41wAv62bGHMVvuAYpk/img.gif?width=980" id="7ff06" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="6109fb5baf04f17deade8b58695881d1" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />wound up season 3 GIFGiphy<p>I had a patient come in with lacerations to her fingers. Her blender got clogged and she stuck her hand inside to clear it. She cleared it and the blender resumed....um blending. Luckily, she had long acrylic nails. This helped lessen the impact.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuld31/er_doctors_and_nurses_of_reddit_what_is_the/gitz5l4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">Bornagainchola</a></p><!-- Insticator API Fire Widget -->
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I'd Rather Go To Sleep
<p>Guy came in after being concerned the bed sheet had stuck to his lower leg. Turns out hed been using a petrol mower the evening before and it had exploded. Full thickness burn to his calf. No pain. He wanted to go home to feed his cows instead of being transferred to burns and plastics. Man it looked like white leather.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuld31/er_doctors_and_nurses_of_reddit_what_is_the/gitkqf9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">DamaskRoses</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Why Play Typical Catch?
<p>Guy was camping with his frat buddies and they were firing air rifles at each other with a baseball glove on.</p><p>The pellet was lodged well into his hand. Like, how did you think this was going to end?</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuld31/er_doctors_and_nurses_of_reddit_what_is_the/gitq7lt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">Milesofstyle</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Close Eyes Off From The World
<p>I was in the ER as a patient next to a guy who was brought in via ambulance because he super glued his eye lids shut.</p><p>He was high as a kite, but so was I from the pain meds I'd been given for my own injury. Whatever meds I was given made me think everything was hilarious. I got yelled at by the nurses for laughing hysterically in the next room. He was being a pain in the a--, ER was on diversion already, and they were not amused.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuld31/er_doctors_and_nurses_of_reddit_what_is_the/githxnc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">brubarbal</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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That's Why It's Called A "Dog" Toy
<p>A few stand out. Person somehow swallowed a spiked dog toy.</p><p>Someone tried to reverse his circumcision by cutting more of his d-ck off with a pair of scissors.</p><p>About every object known to man up the bum. 🎵 if you like it then you shoulda put a string on it." 🎵</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuld31/er_doctors_and_nurses_of_reddit_what_is_the/gitnt24?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">bsn2fnp1</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Yeah, But, How?
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQ1MDMxMi9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0MjAyNTM0OX0.Esaobyl7Yq7QltSxli0ZwjggE7j8A4gu0uNRnn1ZwUc/img.gif?width=980" id="95a28" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="f4eb7f0131c0d79db2de93fd2bbdc0af" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />homer simpson GIFGiphy<p>I've seen an internal vaginal laceration from someone climbing a fence while trying to see something happening down the street.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuld31/er_doctors_and_nurses_of_reddit_what_is_the/giss2id?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">midturbinate</a></p>Again With The Butt...
<p>ER Nurse here</p><p>-We had a girl come in and who knows what she was doing but she had one of the thin glow sticks in her bladder, maybe some fun finger/glow play during a concert? I don't know but pretty wild.</p><ul><li>Also I had a Spanish speaking only gentleman explain why a shoe polish bottle was in his bum, we had to use a video interpreter due to the language barrier but it's was pretty wild to hear the interpreter say "I have a bottle of polish in my anus" after expecting him to just explain why he had belly pain. We also proceeded to print out multiple pictures of common types of shoe polish he used to ask him if it was "this one or that one". It was hilarious when he identified what one it was based on the picture, he had to go to the OR</li></ul><div><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuld31/er_doctors_and_nurses_of_reddit_what_is_the/gitqmlm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">AirFryersRule</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuld31/er_doctors_and_nurses_of_reddit_what_is_the/gitqmlm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a></div><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Sounds Like A College Guy Thing To Do
<p>Had a university student who ignited a firework in his anus while drunk for the amusement of his buddies. It exploded, causing full thickness burns of his rectum, resulting in him needing a colostomy</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuld31/er_doctors_and_nurses_of_reddit_what_is_the/giss6l1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">ArcofRiolan</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Wow...
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQ1MDI4OC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzMDMyMzMyMn0.b42VhIpJrAsaFR19Cf55ZVkWnby5yTIrMhI73HVAImk/img.gif?width=980" id="3ccdf" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="50847094a4e17c16febbb35d2146f14f" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />scared homer simpson GIFGiphy<p>Operating theatre - this woman came in with a frozen chicken stuck inside her lady parts. Apparently she had a habit of buying them, inserting them and then pulling them out, as she really had a thing for going through childbirth, but on this occasion, she hadn't allowed time for it to defrost properly /adequately.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Mike_OxonFaier/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mike_OxonFaier</a></p><p><em>Want to "know" more? Never miss another big, odd, funny, or heartbreaking moment again. Sign up for the Knowable newsletter <a href="https://mailchi.mp/knowable/knowable-newsletter-in-content" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>. </em></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
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People Share Their Best 'I Don't Tell People Where I Work So They Don't Ask For Help' Experiences
January 13 | 2021
Sometimes your job can be a point of pride in your life, something you happily discuss with people either because you're proud of what you do or because you want people to know what kind of impact you make in others' lives.
However, there are those who prefer to keep what they do on the down-low.
Speaking about what you do could lead to complications, and who has time for that?
<p>Reddit user, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/UltrawaveYT/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">u/UltrawaveYT</a>, wanted to hear how you keep it quiet when they asked:</p><p><em><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuwuur/what_is_your_i_dont_tell_people_where_i_work_so/" target="_blank">What is your "I don't tell people where I work so They don't ask for help" story ?</a></em></p>
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Way To Bring Down The Party, Dude
<p>I'm a social worker. I avoid telling people in real life because it usually goes down one of two ways.</p><ol><li>they hate social workers as evil agents of the state stealing children for no good reason and invading family privacy and tearing families apart.</li><li>they idolise social workers as perfect guardian angels who do no harm ever and are constantly saving children from evil.</li></ol><p>Neither are accurate. It makes for boring conversation in social situations, who wants to talk about child abuse at a party? (hint: not me).</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuwuur/what_is_your_i_dont_tell_people_where_i_work_so/giuyv1n?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">InterestingCloud9</a></p><!-- Insticator API Fire Widget -->
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"I Click On Every Tab That's Opened, Why?"
<p>I don't tell people that I work in IT because I don't want to spend the next weekend fixing up their 8 year old laptop that has seen every "Hot chicks in your area" being opened.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuwuur/what_is_your_i_dont_tell_people_where_i_work_so/giuwjgz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">Optidalfprime</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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No Vacancy
<p>It's pretty normal that when new friends find out I work at a hotel they try to get free stays at other locations in our brand portfolio.</p><p>There's only one friend I've actually given a free week to. I offered a free room to another friend who had recently become homeless but he declined. Otherwise when people ask I refuse.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuwuur/what_is_your_i_dont_tell_people_where_i_work_so/giukji0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">mxmnull</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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I Have Things I Like To Do In My Down Time, Too
<p>I'm a 3D animator and people tend to ask for free animation for games or a home made movie... yeah no, i don't have the time, I enjoy my free time off of work.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuwuur/what_is_your_i_dont_tell_people_where_i_work_so/giur8lp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">Lunamcfly</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Sad, Sad, Sad
<p>I don't tell people I'm rich because they all suddenly have a sad life story and financial ruin.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuwuur/what_is_your_i_dont_tell_people_where_i_work_so/giuk912?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">__Rainforest__</a></p><p>I didn't have a job when I was 3. Money?</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuwuur/what_is_your_i_dont_tell_people_where_i_work_so/giukk72?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">UltrawaveYT</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Don't Tell Them Everything
<p>I've done my bachelor's in Computer Science. Which apparently makes me "Tech Support" for my whole Family and Extended-Family.</p><p>The thing I <em>haven't</em> told them is, I also write professionally, or else, they'll be on my throat, asking me to help their kids with their assignments and essays!</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuwuur/what_is_your_i_dont_tell_people_where_i_work_so/giuxrqa?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">GodDarnBatman</a></p>You're A Tool
<p>I buy and sell large amounts of Milwaukee cordless power tools, and tune race cars as a hobby.</p><p>Everyone wants free tools.</p><p>Everyone wants car advice.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuwuur/what_is_your_i_dont_tell_people_where_i_work_so/giura97?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">ThiccA--CrackHead</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Can't Be Done Anecdotally
<p>I worked for a long time as a behavioral therapist and people would ask if their kids had autism or how to fix them.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuwuur/what_is_your_i_dont_tell_people_where_i_work_so/giuki59?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">DoctorMittensPHD</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Not What I'm About
<p>some people thinks software engineer means I can hack others Facebook ID.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuwuur/what_is_your_i_dont_tell_people_where_i_work_so/giuqqna?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">AYKadence_Kristian</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
Hey! I'm Off The Clock.
<p>Can I fix your computer? Yes!</p><p>Will I fix your computer? No.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuwuur/what_is_your_i_dont_tell_people_where_i_work_so/giumns7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">Complete_Entry</a></p><p>I went to a wedding for a colleague. At some point in the evening we were chatting with the parents of the bride and when they found out I worked with him they started to explain a computer problem and asked what I thought. I told them I thought they had a brand new son-in-law that could fix that right up for them lol.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuwuur/what_is_your_i_dont_tell_people_where_i_work_so/giuof8h?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">diiejso</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Strange How That Works Out, Isn't It?
<p>Up until a couple years ago, I worked in radio. Specifically, country radio.<br></p><p>I can tell you without hesitation that George Strait probably causes cancer. It's the only possible explanation for the fact that whenever he had an upcoming concert in our town, we were inundated with listeners who said that their mother (or grandmother, or aunt, or best friend) was dying of cancer and their last wish was to see George Strait in concert before they died, so they needed that pair of tickets we were giving away.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>When he wasn't on tour? Cancer rates were low. When he was? Everyone's mom had cancer. Terminal cancer. With oddly specific death dates. If George was coming to town at the end of August, then mom was projected to die no later than September 1st.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuwuur/what_is_your_i_dont_tell_people_where_i_work_so/giunf86?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" rel="noopener noreferrer">gogojack</a></p><p><em>Want to "know" more? Never miss another big, odd, funny, or heartbreaking moment again. Sign up for the Knowable newsletter <a href="https://mailchi.mp/knowable/knowable-newsletter-in-content" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>. </em></p>
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Teachers are supposed to be kind individuals, instructing a class of open-minded (most of the time) students how to learn and grow and critically think. In an ideal world, this would certainly be the case for all educators, but as any person who's been through the education system can tell you, this is not always the case.
<p>Reddit user, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/throwaaawayx0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">u/throwaaawayx0</a>, wanted to hear about the worst time in your class life when they asked:</p><p><em><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuv81o/serious_what_really_messed_up_thing_did_a_teacher/" target="_blank">[Serious] What really messed up thing did a teacher do to you?</a></em></p>
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Letting Preconceptions Get In The Way
<p>I'll go first, its a story which I only remembered some years ago.</p><p>I come from an immigrant family (Iraqi).</p><p>I was always an extremely shy and introverted kid, never talking much.</p><p>So one day the teacher starts talking about antisemitsm and he says how I am Iraqi which means I HATE Jews and I would love it if they all just died, some people looked at me, for example a buddy who sat next to me asking me if thats true.</p><!-- Insticator API Fire Widget -->
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<p>I said that thats not true and that I respect everbody regardless of religion, sex, sexual orientation or whatever and I was really confused, it was not a joke because he didn't laugh and even if it were a joke its not a funny joke and at that age many people will get brainwashed since they believe everything a teacher says.</p><p>In the end nobody except the people in class knew about what happened but I thats now probably 7 years ago and if I had said something to the principal (which I wish I did) the teacher would've probably gotten suspended.</p><p>Sad that people like that are teachers.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuv81o/serious_what_really_messed_up_thing_did_a_teacher/giub5qw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">throwaaawayx0</a></p>
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Singling Out A Specific Type Of Student
<p>I was in first grade, with another girl and I being the only kids of color in either of the first grade classes. One of the other kids got lice and my teacher (horrible woman) decided to ONLY bring out me and this other girl to the hallway and aggressively check our heads...as if to suggest we were dirty and the cause of the lice. I went home and innocently told my mom, because me being 6 I hadn't realized what happened. </p><p>My mom lost it.<br></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>She threatened to sue the school district and demanded the teacher have disciplinary action. Nothing ever happened to the teacher unfortunately, my mom only got a hefty apology from the principal and my teacher just never bothered me again. To this day, my mom still gets pissed talking about it and hates that teacher.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuv81o/serious_what_really_messed_up_thing_did_a_teacher/giulq87?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" rel="noopener noreferrer">booneisthemoon</a></p>
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...wow...
<p>I went to school without wearing a bra. I was 13 and completely flat-chested, but I guess the barest hint of nipple through my shirt enraged my teacher. </p><p>She made me stand up in class and asked me if I thought it was appropriate to come to school dressed like I was while pointing at my chest, then asked if I was "showing off" before ordering me to the principal. Nasty, bitter old woman.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuv81o/serious_what_really_messed_up_thing_did_a_teacher/giue0ll?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">808menehune</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Unequal Grading System
<p>My english teacher in 8th grade hated me. So when she saw I had got full marks in a test, she grabbed my test sheet and scanned it with full attention to find any minor mistake. She found a spelling error and deducted a mark. A friend of mine had a spelling error in the same test but he had only half a mark deducted for the same.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuv81o/serious_what_really_messed_up_thing_did_a_teacher/giueucc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">ghx1910</a></p>Excessive, Much?
<p>When I was in third grade, if you didn't have your homework done the teacher would throw you a pity party.</p><p>She would make you stand up and then have the entire class chant "1, 2, 3, awwwwww"</p><p>Then she would put your name, and the assignment, in what she called the F-Tablet. She claimed that if you had a single assignment in the F-Tablet at the end of the year she would fail you.</p><p>You would also lose recess privileges.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuv81o/serious_what_really_messed_up_thing_did_a_teacher/giudd8w?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">The_Vampire_Barlow</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Trying To Have Your Back
<p>A little more light hearted than the other stories.</p><p>In third grade I was making a presentation in front of class. In the far back of the class I saw the substitute teacher pointing at her crotch and mouthing something under her breath. I was really confused.</p><p>At the end of the presentation I just HAD to know what the heck she was doing.</p><p>"Mrs. Smith, what's the matter?" </p><p>"YOUR ZIPPER IS UNZIPPED!"</p><p>I looked down, my underwear was clearly showing, everyone started to point and laugh.</p><p>Nearly 20 years later and I still triple check to make sure that I zipped my pants.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuv81o/serious_what_really_messed_up_thing_did_a_teacher/giug58p?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">komnenos</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Endangering Students For Fun
<p>When I was in sixth grade, we walked across the street for ice cream as a class. I lost my shoe in the middle of a busy street and the cars were already coming both ways, but my teacher made me run out and get it.</p><p>Same teacher would fail me on assignments for no reason. I don't know what I ever did for my existence to piss her off</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuv81o/serious_what_really_messed_up_thing_did_a_teacher/giub4gi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">flabby-cheese</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
Let Them Use The Bathroom!
<p>Whacked me with a yard stick after I asked for the nth time to please use the bathroom. Then screamed at me when I pissed myself. Mrs. Peacock was my personal Snape in first grade.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuv81o/serious_what_really_messed_up_thing_did_a_teacher/giudsj8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">raisinghellwithtrees</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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A Hateful Vendetta
<p>My 5th grade teacher would intentionally fail everything I did because my mom pissed her off.</p><p>Also, I flunked a math course the year I was supposed to graduate and I had to go to another town for summer school. The summer school gives me all of these packets that I'm supposed to complete. But they come back wrong. So my sister lets me use a computer program (like a calculator that teaches you how to actually do the work) to complete the work. Still wrong. I have a neighbor help me. Still wrong. I have a really old friend who was going to college for engineering help me. Still wrong. As it turns out, someone at this school did all of the answers BY HAND, and got them all wrong and they just assumed it was right this whole time. So they just passed me, which was the good part. The months of hard work, frustration and stress was sh-tty though.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuv81o/serious_what_really_messed_up_thing_did_a_teacher/giueg1a?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">blankyblankblank1</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Seriously. Messed. Up.
<p>I had a restraining order against a family member, and the school knew and alerted all my teachers before events and open house. My art teacher decided she knew better than the court, and not only let him into a school event, but showed said family member all of my artwork and portfolio and divulged personal information about me. She somehow didn't get fired!</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuv81o/serious_what_really_messed_up_thing_did_a_teacher/giuf27o?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">bootybonita</a></p><div id="taboola-mid-article-1x1" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Probably Shouldn't Be Allowed Around Kids
<p>Made fun of a disability in front of the whole class multiple times.</p><p>I have a prosthetic right leg. He would make fun of it all the time, impersonate me, ask me to "walk better", and then some. Even changed lyrics in a song the class was singing to joke about it one time. 4 years of that.</p><p>In addition, he'd intentionally try to make things awkward with people dating, etc... I had dated a girl briefly in the class and for the next 2 years he would keep making jokes and trying to make everything more awkward than it needed to be, and did it to tons of others as well.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_10" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>One of those "haha I'm your friend I joke too!" a--holes. Dropped him from my contacts after high school when I realized how messed up it was in retrospect.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kuv81o/serious_what_really_messed_up_thing_did_a_teacher/giufcfr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">Smashbru</a></p><p><em>Want to "know" more? Never miss another big, odd, funny, or heartbreaking moment again. Sign up for the Knowable newsletter <a href="https://mailchi.mp/knowable/knowable-newsletter-in-content" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>. </em></p>
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Customer Service Employees Divulge The One Thing They Never Thought They'd Have To Explain To An Adult
January 11 | 2021
If you've never worked retail then it'll be hard for you to have any idea of how it feels to be yelled at for something you have little control over. You do your best to help them out, but sometimes their feelings get the best of their human logic, so they lash out, screaming even, and it's up to you to calm them down. However, the hilarious thing is sometimes it's the customer's own fault, leaving you to fix their mess.
<p>Reddit user, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TvFanaticcx/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">/TvFanaticcx</a>, wanted to hear the most frustrating conversation when they asked:</p><p><em><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ktqays/people_who_work_in_customer_service_what_is_the/" target="_blank">People who work in customer service, what is the one thing you never thought you'd have to explain to an adult?</a></em></p>
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You Understand What Profits Are, Right?
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQzMzY4Mi9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyOTQ5MjEyNX0.711HzPdGeZa_WHCT2OuIGiFBVxsosy8PkfAZikMuvbw/img.gif?width=980" id="4e792" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="498d669144bc19879906fc1c871410dc" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />season 6 eating GIFGiphy<p>That we sell stuff for a higher price than we buy it in for.</p><p>They were genuinely angry that we didn't buy their crap for the same price we sold it at</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ktqays/people_who_work_in_customer_service_what_is_the/ginpr16?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">Redwood_soft_boy</a></p><!-- Insticator API Fire Widget -->
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We Don't Control The Weather, Ma'am.
<p>That if you order ice cream for 4 people on a hot summer day, but the 4 people are still like 30 minutes away, said ice cream is going to melt before the 4 people get there. </p><p>And no, that is not my fault.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ktqays/people_who_work_in_customer_service_what_is_the/ginu2a7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">mandaman1608</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The Science Doesn't Check Out On That One
<p>My first job at 16 was Party City. One day, I'm blowing up balloons at the balloon counter and a lady comes up to buy some latex balloons. I ask if she wants us to fill them and she said no, she'd do it at home. Making small talk, I said oh you must have one of the party time helium tasks at home.</p><p>"No, I blow them up with my mouth. You just put the string on them and they float!"</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>I do the multiple blinks, trying to work out in my head what she's just said. She fully believed she could blow up the balloons with her mouth and the magic was attaching a string. I tried to give this woman an impromptu chemistry lesson. She insisted.</p><p>I still think about that magic woman to this day.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ktqays/people_who_work_in_customer_service_what_is_the/gio2ojn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" rel="noopener noreferrer">LadyBearJenna</a></p>
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Just A Short List
<p>Oh, so so so many things.</p><ol><li>If you wish to return an item you must present the item and your receipt. I cannot process a refund if you have neither.</li><li>No, we do not sell asbestos. No, I cannot order some in for you.</li><li>When water boils it does indeed produce "bubbles". If the water is bubbling once it reaches temperature your kettle is in fact working properly.</li><li>Zip ties are not simply 'disposable handcuffs'. They can be used for other purposes and it should not be concerning nor surprising that a hardware store sells them.</li></ol><div><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ktqays/people_who_work_in_customer_service_what_is_the/ginqybo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">CrashCoplee</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ktqays/people_who_work_in_customer_service_what_is_the/ginqybo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a></div><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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That's What Directions Are For
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQzMzY2Ni9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxMTIwOTI5OH0.xgN-OgeIuOi1BNo0ETwlTEmBj-vNiJG8DKBCyN8ZHhI/img.gif?width=980" id="5506b" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a87f76b1fbdcd5d4013f4183e58d1ef9" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />sick homer simpson GIFGiphy<p>You need to take the suppositories out of their foil packaging before you use them. </p><p>He complained that they didn't work and were uncomfortable. </p><p>I bet they were.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ktqays/people_who_work_in_customer_service_what_is_the/ginut6c?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">EmptyPomoc</a></p>Crazy How That Works, Huh?
<p>A dialogue I actually had to have with a grown adult:</p><p>Him, pointing at the price tag on a shirt: "Excuse me, what do these numbers represent?"</p><p>Me: "The numbers right after the dollar sign?"</p><p>Him: "Yes."</p><p>Me: "That's the price of the shirt."</p><p>Him: "Oh, I see! Thank you!"</p><p>At least he was friendly.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ktqays/people_who_work_in_customer_service_what_is_the/gio46ef?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">elevenfish</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The Math Checks Out On That One
<p>You can't apply a coupon if you 1) don't have it with you and 2) doesn't even apply to wtf you ordered</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ktqays/people_who_work_in_customer_service_what_is_the/ging1cb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">CrazyQueen502</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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You Understand We Have A Limited Space Here, Right?
<p>The library does not stock every book in existence.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ktqays/people_who_work_in_customer_service_what_is_the/ginitrk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">Okorela</a></p><p>Also, the library has a finite number of copies of each book it does have. You are not the only one to have the brilliant idea of borrowing an insanely popular new title instead of buying it. In fact, you're #387 on the list, and we only have four copies.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ktqays/people_who_work_in_customer_service_what_is_the/gio703w?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">jemmo_</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
Handling College Parents Must Be A Nightmare
<p>Years ago I worked in student housing at a university and had to explain to a father, for well over an hour, that I could not make sure that his daughter was in her room by 8 PM and ensure that she never spoke to boys.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ktqays/people_who_work_in_customer_service_what_is_the/ginjiau?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">kor_hookmaster</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>I worked at a college. Dear Christ the helicopter parents!</p><p>"Can you look up the transactions on my child's account and send them to me?"</p><p>"Nope."</p><p>"Why not?</p><p>"Because your child is a legal adult and we protect their privacy."</p><p>"I'm their parent. They don't need privacy from me!"</p><p>"That's between you and them. The laws protect their privacy from everyone including their parent."</p><p>"Im their guardian and entitled to this information!"</p><p>"Without a court order, 18 year olds (or 22 year olds for that matter in some cases) do not have legal guardians."</p><p>"I'm going to report this to the Dean!"</p><p>"Please do as it will let them know I'm doing my job."</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ktqays/people_who_work_in_customer_service_what_is_the/gio6wk9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">Zazenp</a></p>
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Wow...WOW...
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It's hard to imagine your child as anything than what you've known them as. If you spend all weekend with them and they act like little monsters the entire time, you might shed a small tear for their teacher come Monday morning. However, one positively glowing parent-techer conference later you might question who your child really is.
Just like these stories from these parents below.
<p>Reddit user, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/FuckingCraigslist/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">u/F-ckingCraigslist</a>, wanted to hear when your brain broke when they asked:</p><p><em><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/knd71v/parents_of_reddit_whats_your_best_wait_a_sec_is/" target="_blank">Parents of Reddit, what's your best "Wait a sec... Is that my child?" moment?</a></em></p>
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Secretly Learning All The Skills
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<p>Cool, cool, his mom and I say to each other. Must be an acoustic guitar up there on stage, and he'll play that while he sings. But, no. He sits at the piano. And then PROCEEDS TO PLAY the piano while she sings her piece. His mom and I just look at each other gobsmacked ... did you know?? Nope, no idea ... neither of us had any idea he knew how to play.</p><p>Not exactly sure how he snuck that past us; we searched his bedroom, found no hidden piano.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/knd71v/parents_of_reddit_whats_your_best_wait_a_sec_is/ghkpoib?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">CalmCalmBelong</a></p>
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Ooh, Baby I Love Your Way
<p>When my daughter's preschool teacher related to me that one day during class when her cell phone rang, all the kids wanted to know who it was. It was her husband, Peter, so the teacher said "It's Peter." The kids started having fun with that and ribbing her. They said "Is it Peter Rabbit?!" And, "Is it Peter Pan?!" And "Is it Peter Cottontail?!" The laughter subsided and then my quiet little kid chimes in with "Is it Peter Frampton?!"</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/knd71v/parents_of_reddit_whats_your_best_wait_a_sec_is/ghk5cou?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">shugerbooger</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Laughter Followed By Confusion
<p>Christmas day I was playing with my kid and her new dragons and unicorns. My character asked why he couldn't see the new baby</p><p>"Because you're a d-ckhead"</p><p>Lots of laughing followed up with asking how she knew that word</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/knd71v/parents_of_reddit_whats_your_best_wait_a_sec_is/ghm0jmk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">Mrhotbutt</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Being Honest About Your Mess
<p>My four yr old walked in her mess of a room and said, "What a sh-t show." </p><p>No question she's mine.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/knd71v/parents_of_reddit_whats_your_best_wait_a_sec_is/ghkmrh8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">ichi__</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Yeah, Forgetting Your Child Is Definitely Up There
<p>Put my youngest in the bassinet in the kitchen and put the other kids down for naps. When I came back in the kitchen, I started to cooked dinner. Walked by the [bassinet], and screamed because there was a baby there looking at me. Took a good 10 seconds to remember I gave birth to a third baby 4 weeks earlier. I needed more sleep.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/knd71v/parents_of_reddit_whats_your_best_wait_a_sec_is/ghkzwo7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">siriusdoggy</a></p>Stepping Up To The Big Stage
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTI2NDgwOS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzMzk5OTQ4Mn0._lrKgj4qTz09y0S1KM-lGNoGYzMRndPXb03r681sW4U/img.gif?width=980" id="075ee" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="bbb8e1e4421fc2d61e85f60eeaad69cb" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />season 4 singing GIFGiphy<p>In third grade my kid was in after school daycare that gave free guitar lessons. They held an end-of-term concert where kids got to show off what they learned.</p><p>First kid gets up. "Johnny will now play Yankee Doodle." Pluck pluck strum. Then we all clapped.</p><p>Next kid gets up. "Jimmy will play Twinkle Twinkle." Strum strum pluck. Then we all clapped.</p><p>The concert went along like this. Kid songs. Kid strumming. Obligatory claps.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>My kid was last. "Buttrock Jr. will play Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne."</p><p>The whole audience kinda chuckled in a WTF manner, me included.</p><p>Kid got up there in his button-up shirt and khakis, totally nonchalant. He was so little that his feet barely touched the floor.</p><p>He started with the song's beginning dun-duns, and then f-cking slayed it.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/knd71v/parents_of_reddit_whats_your_best_wait_a_sec_is/ghkkgol?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">buttrock</a></p>
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Why Would He Even Be Allowed To Watch That?
<p>My sons favorite movie when he was 4 was Braveheart. In Walmart I hear people laughing and then very loudly, "....OUR FREEDOM" as my kid in his best William Wallace runs down the aisle with a pool noodle aloft.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/knd71v/parents_of_reddit_whats_your_best_wait_a_sec_is/ghknkfo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">blueana13</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
You Have No Idea What You're Doing
<p>I imagine for our mother it was my sister throat punching the dentist and telling them they have no idea what they're doing at 8 years old.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/knd71v/parents_of_reddit_whats_your_best_wait_a_sec_is/ghjzy9s?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">UNWIZARDLY</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Selling Your Daughter Down The Road
<p>I was at a children's museum with my two toddlers (about 2 years and 4 years). The younger one, my daughter, was playing in a communal area with some other small toddlers. I was sitting off to the side watching, but she was in her own world so no one could have known I belonged to her at that point.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p><br>Another little girl walked up and started playing with the toys my daughter was using. My daughter slowly turned her head and the look I saw in her eyes was, well, calculated. She stared at the little girl for a moment, reached out, placed her hand on the girl's shoulder, then pushed hard and yelled "NO, MINE!" right in the girl's face, then turned back to the toys and began playing innocently.</p>
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<p>There was another mom sitting next to me that witnessed the entire event and I could see the judgement festering inside her. So I quietly said, "oh man, who's kid is that? They should teach their kids some manners." The other mom definitely agreed and we sat there judging for a few more minutes until I got up, took my daughter's hand and walked away.</p><p>No, I'm not a good parent sometimes.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/knd71v/parents_of_reddit_whats_your_best_wait_a_sec_is/ghkfj7y?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">gotsthepockets</a></p>
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An Angel In The Class, At Home A Total A**
<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTI2MTYyNS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1NDMwNTIxMX0.rIKFRooDgmdaOGsxPq-gO7TExkKqOatT_WDJG4bW7cI/img.gif?width=980" id="b4711" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="23494939d3ac180e17330a0c419f96d6" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" />season 4 pick up line GIFGiphy<p>Most parent/teacher conferences. They describe how awesome my kids are and that they love having them in their classes. They then describe some of the exemplary behaviors they exhibit in class.</p><p>I look at my wife and we both wonder why they can do it at school but act like barbarians at home.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/knd71v/parents_of_reddit_whats_your_best_wait_a_sec_is/ghjydpm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3">AbilityLeft6445</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_11" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Pinocchio
<p>Storytime - I was making the rounds of seeing each kids' teacher/classroom during Open House and started with the youngest who was in Kindergarten. His older sister quietly listened to her brother's Kindergarten teacher go on and on about what a sweet kid he was, how kind and thoughtful, how good he was at sharing...etc.</p><p>After hearing all of this, my daughter had a very puzzled look on her face considering the behavior of the aforementioned brother at home whispered very loudly to me, "Mom! I think his teacher is lying! That's not him at all!"</p><p>Will always be one of my most favorite memories.</p><p>[deleted]</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_12" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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