Today, I was reading a picture storybook to a kindergarten kid. She could pronounce more words than me, and corrected me. I'm about triple her age. FML
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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, the kids I teach informed me that I had spelled my name incorrectly on the board. I looked at it and assured them that I had spelled it correctly. I'm 22 and a graduate student, they're six and mentally challenged. Guess who was right? FML
Today, while at work I was reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to me class of 5 year olds. I got near the end of the book and said "Look at the big fat caterpillar" to which one of my pupils replied "Just like you, Miss!" FML
Today, I was babysitting a 4 year-old with a speech impediment. I asked her, "Do you got your bag?" And she said, "No. I have my bag. Babies say got. I'm a big girl." I am 20 years old and in the honors program in my college. I was corrected by a 4 year-old with a speech impediment. FML
Today in class I accidentally called my teacher very old and almost dead. As we were discussing a book I said that the book character is very old and close to death since it fitted to the context. Turns out this character is one year younger than my teacher and she wasn't amused. FML
Today, while grading my kindergarteners' spelling tests, one kid spelled all the words wrong, including his name. FML
Today, a friend told me that when I read, I make all the expressions the characters in the book are making. Apparently, I have been doing this since I was a kid, and no one ever told me. FML
Today, I took my toddler to a library story hour. He sat quietly for almost ten minutes, which should have been my first warning. Right as the librarian began reading a dramatic part, my son pointed at her and shouted, “That lady is very old.” FML
Today, I have learned a lot of "big" words from reading so much, but can actually only pronounce about half of them correctly. FML
Today, while at my tutoring job, a middle school kid couldn't find a word in the online dictionary. I told him he could check a regular paperback dictionary. His response was, "That's what you did in your day. That's not what we do in our day." I'm only 19. FML
Today, I was teaching a class when a student pointed out that I'd used the wrong "your/you're" while writing on the board. FML
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Top comments
TheHinduHomie 12
An education might be in order.
Lilkat39 5
You need to go back to school. Right now.
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shartmydarts 8
Way to go, dingus.
kirkaygri 18
You ever read a Dr. Seuss book? Half of the words aren't even words. I get caught up on a few of those books and I'm very well read. Don't get me started on the suprise ending of Hop On Pop...
caliguy08 17
Less drugs,movies and video games...more hooked on phonics...and you might end up being smarter than a first grader
jaymecarterr 21
stay in school, kids.
JacobRSE 18
Switch places with them
thisguy0421 2
Triple your age eh? You sure you worked that out right? Maybe you should double check with her.
bigblackdude101 16
did you hit the kid?
XxNightwingxX 21
Geez. What kind of words do you have in Australian picture books?
Kallian_fml 21
Echidna. Wallaby. Uluru. Wollongong. We've got heaps of fun words.
GermanRanger 7
Get off this app ur too young if ur triple a kindergarteners age
baristalbc 18
Her grammar is probably better as well. "She could pronounce more words than I" NOT "She could pronounce more words than ME"