Today, I got nominated to sit in a chair in the middle of the gym during a high school rally while the entire school got to throw paper balls at me. FML
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Today, we had a sprint race in gym class that I wasn't looking forward to because I'm a little chubby. The race started and I shot off as fast as I could, somehow in the lead. Everyone was cheering. When I was nearing the finish line I turned around, only to see the race hadn't started yet. FML
Today, I was in the toilet. Some idiots thought it was funny to throw a water balloon into the cubicle. The balloon didn't pop, but fell in the toilet, sending my own urine onto my shorts. I had 4 hours left of school. FML
Today, as I was walking back to my dorm, I looked down and thought, "I wonder why the ground is wet in just this one spot?" Then I got hit with a water balloon. FML
Today, my social studies teacher thought it would be a great idea to have a casual debate about Margaret Thatcher and her legacy. Within 10 minutes, the entire class was yelling, screaming, throwing stuff at each other. I got hit in the face with a binder. FML
Today, I was jumped and savagely beaten to the ground by a group of six-year-olds wearing Disney princess masks. FML
Today, I faked a sore throat for the school nurse so I could go home early. It took my dad the rest of the school day just to get there to pick me up. FML
Today, my band played for our school. We were cheered for and everything. Being the lead singer, I tried to look cool and push the mic away and pull it back by pushing down the bottom of the stand with my foot. It hit my face and I bled like crazy, but I kept singing. No one clapped at the end. FML
Today, I was practicing my lines for theater class in the hall. My partner and I chose a script where we argue over me stealing her boyfriend. Since it started to sound like a real argument, another student said that I was a "crazy bitch" and punched me in the face. FML
Today, I was told it was inconvenient for me to take lunch breaks, because someone else has to answer the phones and no one else wants to actually do any work. FML
Today, I was at a water park with my family. They wanted me to stand underneath this big bucket filled with water. I didn't know it tips over, and my swimsuit isn't the tightest, so when all the water fell down, my swimsuit bottoms fell to my knees in front of tons of kids. FML
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feldco1 17
I'm curious as to why they do this and if it occurs every year.
katt_is_here 24
So your school is actively advocating singling someone out and bullying them? Wooooooow...change schools.
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Comments (107)
asherm 15
Hazing! I think you have a case
VoodooPriestess 16
Just refuse to do it. Or call in sick the day you're supposed to be there. For things like this you shouldn't be nominated. You get volunteers.
G_bear24 9
WTF? What kind of high school are you going to?
fightingkittens 39
This reminds me of the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, first published in the New Yorker in 1948. Actually, it's just like the story, except it's paper balls instead of stones.......
CelticSkye 13
I fail to see how singling out one student and then having the entire school throw paper balls at them is a way to promote school spirit. I mean, please, correct me if I'm wrong but I'm assuming that the rally was a pep rally. How in the hell does humiliating some poor kid supposed to gain school spirit? It seems to me, the only thing this accomplished was to teach those students that it's okay to humiliate someone in public.
CelticSkye 13
Yeah, I want to know too...just so I know which school and school system to avoid in the future.
Omniprism 15
Why would they do that...single out one person to do that to. They should have nominated a couple. Sorry that happened. High school sucks. Mine was horrible.
kitkatvan 5
Really? They don't even let us boo the freshmen anymore. I had no idea schools actually did this kind of crap. Isn't that considered bullying? There's almost no bullying at my school so don't know what that's like. I'm sorry you had to go through that, your principal should be fired for letting that happen. There should be volunteers, not nominees.
thetmills 8
Thats not that bad actually. See it as a contest an you won it. Now everyone has fun while throwing paper at you. If you're really humiliated by that, then you need to learn how to not care and just chill.
kappinlivy 9
It had to happen to someone op :(