Awkward Tales: Folks Spill Their Encountered Most Cringy Moments

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Embarrassing moments are part of our lives. Yet, it’s the most haunting experience to ever have because the memory will last forever. Even when you’re preparing to sleep, when suddenly you remember that one time you tripped while running.

However, despite being so embarrassing, some of them become good memories. These people from the Reddit community shared their haunting, cringy, and silly moments they could never forget.

1. Hands up, Hands down

I've told this story in the past, but in year four, a student arrived from Italy. Let's assume Franco was his name. Well, one day, we all went on a half-day excursion, and anyone who didn't get the forms signed, like Franco, had to stay next door with the scary year five teacher.

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About half an hour after recess, Franco puts up his hand and says he needs to go to the toilet. "No, Franco, you should have gone at recess." Ten minutes pass, and Franco's hand goes up again. "No, Franco, put your hand down.

Important disclosure here: Franco hung out with us after school, and the previous evening, we had dared him to eat a big slice of some kind of wild gourd we found growing near our house.

It looked like a stunted watermelon but stunk really bad.. The inevitable happened two minutes after he last asked to go to the toilet. Franco crapped his pants with such force that it was claimed crap came out of his collar.

The teacher literally had to hose diarrhea off Franco's chair. We never saw Franco again. He craps his pants so hard he changed schools.

Tu_stultus_est

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2. Awkward Realization

One time, in science class in middle school, we were doing our end-of-semester presentations. Everyone was presenting their science experiments that we had all spent weeks on and counted for a significant portion of our grade.

One girl, who admittedly was not the sharpest crayon in the box and kind of a ditz, got up to present. She was very excited about her breakthrough results.

She went on about her hypothesis for several minutes: that light affected the vitamin C levels in different kinds of juices. She launched into detail about her experiment.

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It involved testing different types of juices' vitamin C levels over a week or so period by putting them in the fridge in both clear containers and opaque containers.

That way, she explained excitedly, she could test which ones had more light from the fridge, affecting their levels. When she finally asked questions, and the silence was deafening, someone finally asked, "You know the light goes out when you shut the door, right?"

It was my favorite science class. A girl in my science class nearly failed because she didn't know the fridge light went off when you shut the door.

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3. Great Teacher

In high school, I was at the board trying to solve a geometry problem. I was bad at math, especially geometry, and the teacher (and the rest of the class) knew this.

I was struggling when the rest of the students had returned to their seats. I continued to struggle as the teacher went through the other problems.

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He came to me and tried to talk me through it.

He was very kind and patient, but I did not get it. Finally, I burst into tears and left the room. Later that day, I was called to the Dean's office, where the teacher was waiting.

He actually apologized and said he wouldn't send me to the board anymore. He tutored me for the rest of the year so I would pass.

Kellianne

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4. Didn't Fight Back

In 5th grade, during a test, one of the girls in the class asked to go to the bathroom. You could tell she had to go REALLY bad. She had her legs in that 'about to let loose' knot, and her hand was over her crotch, the whole 9 yards.

The teacher refused because we were taking a test. She pleaded. She begged. You could see her eyes straining to fight back tears, or maybe it was the urine leaking out because of some internal overflow. Anyway, he refused again. He told her to wait. 5 minutes later, we heard a gasp.

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Everybody looked up to where the girl was sitting, and we all saw a puddle on the floor under her desk. It slowly increased in size, and as it encroached slowly under other students' desks, the teacher instructed us all to get up and go outside.

It was awful. That poor girl just sat at her desk with her head down as we all walked out of the room, half laughing and half gagging.

Jankylyfe

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5. Unmoved Dignity

Teacher here. I was planning on showing a video clip to my class of high school seniors, but my computer, for some reason, wasn't displaying the video. So, as my students were trickling in, I noticed one of them had his computer on him. I asked if I could use it really quickly, and he said yes.

At this point, my entire class of 20 or so kids was in. I hooked up his laptop to the projector and downloaded the video from my email. It finished downloading and started up a video player automatically from his computer.

I'm still not quite sure what happened, but I think he had a video player already up. 

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Instead of playing the video clip I just downloaded, the entire screen (a monstrosity that took up the entire classroom wall) showed a lady making love with two men.  

Noises and grunts echoed deafeningly in the silent classroom. I felt like everything was in slo-mo, but one student later told me I jumped to close the laptop with such quick desperation that it was like watching someone leap on top of a grenade.

The owner of the laptop turned bright red, but both he and the whole class started laughing. I think, in the end, I was the person who was most embarrassed.

The kid even had the guts to say, "Miss Dracling, I know that's not the first time you've seen that before." And then he winked. Speechless.

Dracling

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6. Trouble Mouth

My 12th-grade English teacher used to have us read short stories and poems aloud to better hold our interest. We were reading The Importance of Being Earnest, I think, and this guy with the unfortunate name of Andy Peacock was reading.

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He gets to the word "assuage," and he pauses. I could see the gears turning in his head as he tried to figure that one out, and I guess he felt pressured to hurry up, and he blurted out, "arse-sausage."

Even the teacher was trying not to laugh while trying to get the rest of us not to laugh at him. It was funny because, well, arse-sausage and sad because of how many kids in 12th grade had trouble reading.

SoulLessGinger992

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7. Insensitive Teacher

When I was in second or third grade, my teacher called this really awkward kid in my class "Farmer McFly," and this really upset him, and he started to cry.

He got to go into the hallway to calm down, and once he was done crying and came back in, she questioned him about why it upset him.

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He said that he "didn't like being called names of any kind," and she told him that was a "stupid reason to cry." I felt bad for the kid, though. It surely made our teacher look dumb and mean.

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8. Rude Grown-up

I remember waiting for the car rider bell to ring, and my homeroom teacher was talking to two of my classmates, a boy, and a girl.

Now note the boy had a little sister who died of cancer a few years ago. 

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So anyway, the girl was telling my teacher how much time she would always spend at the boy's house, saying that she was almost like family.

Then my teacher said, "So you're like the daughter they never had, huh?" Oh, I still cringe, thinking about how silent it got after she said that.

MaddieBonanaFana

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9. Insensitive Accusation

Oh, man. There was a kid in my math class who missed a few weeks of school. When he returned, my teacher said to him loudly, "Where have you been, the Bahamas?"

The entire class became dead silent because we all knew what our teacher apparently didn't. "My mom died," the kid replied solemnly.

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My math teacher immediately profusely apologized. It was one of the saddest things I've ever seen. If my teacher didn’t apologize, that would make him a jerk.

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10. School Of Shame

My 4th-grade teacher was the worst teacher I've ever had. She wasn't just a bad teacher but a bad human being. One boy was kind of "the weird kid," but he was funny, and I liked him.

One day, we were reading about bugs, and she called on him to read aloud a section about antennae. I knew the word antennae and how it was pronounced, so when he started reading, it was obvious he'd never seen/heard the word before.

He pronounced it an-te-nay, and instead of correcting him, our teacher just let him read a full page with this word repeating.   

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I started watching her as he read, and she was smirking and trying to hold back laughter.

When he finished reading, she said, "It's pronounced an-ten-ee, by the way," and the whole class, her included, just started laughing uproariously.

He was a good sport and kind of laughed along with them, but I could tell he was really embarrassed. It's almost 20 years later, and that memory is still so vivid to me.

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11. Unexpected Noises

A classmate of mine called him Guy, had a hearing aid, but also this device for teachers to hang around their neck, which sent the audio straight to him so he didn't have to filter out the background noise (early day cheap hearing aids weren't the best).

Anyway, in one math lesson, the teacher sets us up for group work and goes out of the room for some reason, telling us to get on with it.

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About a minute later, Guy starts to laugh, and hard tears come down his face. Naturally, we were all very intrigued, and he just took out his hearing aid and passed it to someone.

The teacher was dropping the loudest crap I have ever heard, grunting, groaning, loud splashes and wet farts. It was sickening AND majestic. She came back in and we all lost it.

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12. Got Served

I was student-teaching in a 5th-grade class, and the classroom teacher SCREAMED at one student for doing his homework in class.

The student she screamed at has an emotional/behavior disorder, and I thought he was going to freak out/cry like he often does.

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Instead, he looked at her and calmly said, "Well, you didn't have to yell at me." The poor kid was 100% right and 100% humiliated by the teacher

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13. Broken Chair And Dignity

I remember a substitute teacher that we had for a few days when I was in middle school. She was pretty overweight, and one day, she grabbed a chair from an empty desk to help someone out with their assignment.

Suddenly, we heard a loud crash.

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One of the legs on the chair had broken, and she was flat on her back. It was hard not to laugh, but what made it even worse is as she was getting up, she ended up farting very loudly.

The entire class erupted in a fit of laughter, and she had to leave the classroom because she was so embarrassed. Yeah, I get that.

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14. Unsolicited Myth

In 10th grade social studies, we talked about Imperial Russia and, of course, Rasputin. I interrupted whatever my teacher was saying with, "Hey, I heard that Rasputin had a 12-inch guy part."

  I could tell I said something completely inappropriate and totally weird when she just stared back at me.   

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My classmates had gone completely silent, too.

How was I to cover this up and play it cool? I started to panic. "Y-yeah.. I hear that they keep it in a jar somewhere in a museum." Oh God. WHY.

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15. Over Pride

I knew a girl who was convinced zebras were like unicorns and didn't exist. She was a freshman in high school. An entire class was spent looking up pictures and videos of zebras online to prove it to her.

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The teacher and the class tried everything, but she just kept saying, "Well, there are pictures and videos of dragons online, too." And using arguments like that.  

Everyone lost all respect for her at that hour. She was too thick-headed to be embarrassed, but everyone there was embarrassed enough for her to make it cringeworthy as hell.

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16. The Pukefest

I went to high school in an "open concept" high school, where there are no walls separating the classrooms, and all the hallways are made up of lockers.

It was open enough to hear the other classrooms and throw stuff over the dividers (much like those that makeup cubicle walls of offices). Skip to the last period of the day.

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In Spanish class, the teacher was new, so she was trying to be strict about bathroom privileges. A freshman girl who was too timid to ask needed to go to the bathroom to throw up because she wasn't feeling well.  

She was sweating, turning green, and shivering. Instead of just running out, she decided to wait it out until it was time to leave. In no time, she got up and threw it in the trash can in front of the whole class.

Then she apologized and ran out, continuing to puke all down the hallway where all other students could see from their classrooms.

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17. A Bit Confusing

In third grade, we got this new kid in class. At this school, we always had separate lines for boys and girls, even when we were sitting around waiting for our grades to be called so that we could get up and go to our homeroom.

Anyway, this kid's cousin puts him in the girl's line on the first day. We figured she (the cousin) was just being a witch and pulled him back to our side.

A few weeks go by, and we always notice the kid standing there awkwardly against the wall, looking down at his feet in the bathroom instead of peeing as we all do.

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Out of nowhere, one day, our third-grade teacher had us all lined up, boys on one side and girls on the other, and we waited to use the bathroom.

This time, though, she's got a new kid standing there with her. She says, "Class, this is a GIRL, and so she will be using the girl's bathroom."

Mind blown. I can't even imagine what led up to this finally happening. She never said a thing. Seemed to take being a dude in stride totally. Anyway, I still think about that now and think that must have been incredibly awkward for her. She was a cool dude.

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18. Imaginary Hogwarts

I have an old friend who went to Brown University at the same time that this famous celebrity did. That woman was one of the main characters in Harry Potter. He told me a story that I've heard from other locations as well.

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So, one might ponder over its credibility. Anyhow, I believe he said it was a biology class that he had with her at the University.

One day, she decided to answer one of the teacher's questions, to which another student loudly proclaimed, "FIFTEEN POINTS FOR GRYFFINDOR!" The whole class was staring at him.

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19. Overreacting kid

This kid Corry was being a prick in class (shouting out, trying to be funny), so this big dude Jefferson, who sat behind Corry, flicked him in the ear.

Corry started to cry, but it started off as that wheezy silent cry. Everyone turned to look at him, and the crying escalated until he was sobbing uncontrollably.

There was snot coming from his nose, and he was drooling, and he was holding his ear like he had just been shot. He started punching the desk and screaming WHY WHY WHY.

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The teacher was just asking him what was wrong, and Corry cry said, “JEFFERSON IS BEING A SHAT,” so she told him to watch his language or go to the office. He started crying even harder and fell to the ground, curled up in a ball.

She had to lift him up by the arm and take him to the office. When he came back near the end of class, Jefferson flicked him again, and he just shrieked.

The situation basically repeated itself, except the teacher had much less tolerance and sent him to the office immediately.

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20. Period Sucks

I was sitting in 6th-grade biology, and my stomach started to hurt pretty badly. Thinking I just needed to go to the restroom.

I stood up and walked from my rear-row seat to the teacher's desk to request the bathroom pass. 

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When I got to the bathroom, it turned out I had started my period for the first time.

It had soaked through my yellow sweatpants. It was apparently all over the seat, and everyone had seen it. It was so embarrassing.

Ohhjenkies

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21. Buttons Fired

In grade 9, there was a girl in the class who had brass buttons that went down one side of her blue jeans. One afternoon, she sneezed violently, and every single god darn button popped off, and they all shot off like bullets in every direction.

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She was sitting there stunned, with her pants hanging off on one side, and the buttons went on rolling around the floor for about another 30-45 seconds before they all finally settled.  

The only sound in the room was all the buttons rolling around on the floor, and she ran sobbing from the room, trying to hold her pants together. Hard to forget something like that.

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22. Provoked One

I remember one of my middle school teachers had a strict policy where anybody who talked when she turned the lights out got an immediate detention.

One time, as we were about to leave the classroom, my teacher turned the lights off, and another kid in my class deemed it a bright idea to sock me in the nuts.

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I let out the noise that one makes when being punched in the groin, and as I lay on the ground, cringing in pain, my teacher gave me detention for 'talking' while the lights were out and 'disrespecting her authority.' The other kid suffered no consequences.

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23. Mysterious Chair

We had a teacher in high school who would shut off the lights for attention and quiet. Then people got fed up because he did it all the time.

So he turned out the lights, and some kid threw a freaking chair at him. 

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He turned the lights back on, and everyone was seated quietly and politely.

We still don't know who it was. No chairs were missing. It was weird and hilarious. The phantom chair ended his 'lights off-attention' policy, though.

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24. Picky Eater

When I was in fourth grade, there was a very odd/awkward girl in my class. She liked to eat weird things like paper, eraser shavings, dirt, snot, you name it.

But her favorite thing was eating the skin on her fingers, and I mean all over her fingers, not just the skin around her nails.

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Well, one day, she was gnawing away at them during a lesson, just like she did every day when the teacher stopped and asked, "Does that taste good?" The girl answered yes. The teacher replied, "Go wash your hands. We don't eat our fingers. That's disgusting."

The most awkward and embarrassing moment I think I've ever experienced in school. I felt kinda bad for her. But she was weird as hell.

Purbeauty

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25. Unnecessary Noise

Oh, I got this one. This one kid in 7th grade, during study time, lets out one of the loudest/wettest farts I've ever heard.

It scared him so much that he jumped up in his seat, and when he came back down, the front legs of the desk split forward, and the entire thing slammed on the ground.

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Everyone is now staring in complete confusion as he raises his hand. The teacher said, "Frankie, did you have something to say?" Frankie, "It was me." Everyone lost their minds.

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26. Should've Whispered

I was in Grade 9, leaving a class where my English teacher called me out for 'talking.' I was leaving the class grumbling to my friends about how much I "hate her" and how if she died, no one would care.

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When suddenly one of my friends stopped me, I turned around and saw that the teacher was right behind me. I put my head down because I knew I was caught.  

All she said was, "If you're going to talk about someone, at least make sure they can't hear you." I apologized and left. The next day, things were back to normal.

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27. Making fun of it

We had a "special" kid in my class a couple of years ago. He was pretty annoying from time to time. Unfortunately, it wasn't "his" fault.

However, some guys in class heard that he would go wild if you started playing "Sexy and I Know It." The teacher went out to get something, and these people started playing it to see what would happen.

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It was true, and he went wild. This kid started dancing and jumping on things whilst having a complete "stone face." If we let the music go on for just another minute, I'm sure he would take his clothes off and really go wild.

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28. Book Chucker

In my trig class, the teacher asked to see one student's math book because, apparently, it was a different edition than everyone else's.

So the student tried tossing the book to the teacher, but instead, he threw it underhanded with a LOT of speed on it, looking like it was intentional.

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Now, there's a five-pound book coming at my teacher's head at high velocity, so she ducks out of the way and inadvertently headbutted the top of her desk with a hard thud.

The book slammed against the wall and made a loud clapping sound. The teacher was okay after a few minutes, and the student was known as "book-chucker" for the rest of the year.

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29. False Accusations

In a research methods course, I'm not sure how to refer to him; if he's transitioning from female to male, or what cause it's kinda confusing.

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But when my professor said something about research samples and made an example of something like, "I couldn't make a good survey of this university based on this class because there are seven girls and one boy,"

This trans guy just looked the prof in the eye and said, "I'm a dude." The class was silent. The Prof just said, "Okay," and moved on.

Double-dog-doctor

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30. Not a Note

Some girl's pad (still in the wrapper) fell out of her desk in middle school, and kids began tossing it around the classroom at each other.

Finally, one chick just picked it up and threw it in the trash. The teacher was a nerdy guy in his twenties and went to pick up whatever had caused the commotion.

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So now he's standing there for an incredibly awkward amount of time, holding this pad and asking the class to explain to him what was going on.

Finally, someone whisper-shouts, "Mr. _____, it's a pad!" and this guy freaks and throws it away again and shouts - "I thought it was a note!" Poor guy.

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31. It Ain't Witty

I went to a high school that had a program for special people. While one of my English classes was in session, the teachers leading the disabled program took the kids outside for some fresh air and sun.

They were making a lot of indiscernible noises. Some douche in my class glanced outside of the window, listened to the noises, and said, "Oh look, they let the llamas out to graze."

He had a look of triumph like he was so witty and funny, but everyone in the entire class just grew quiet and stared at him in disbelief.

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My teacher didn't say anything for a good 5 seconds but then turned red and whispered, voice dripping with disgust, "Out of my classroom. NOW," and followed him out. The teacher chewed him out all the way down the hallway to the principal's office.

The part I will always remember is how the look of smugness wilted on this kid's face when he realized no one was laughing. Glorious.

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32. Self-Control helps

When I was in high school, there was this guy (Igor) who was a know-it-all. He was legitimately smart (with the highest GPA in the school) but loved to brag. He would talk and talk and talk.

One day, in grade 12, I was in the library studying, and he was there just talking.

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Eventually, I bang my hand on the table I'm at and say, "Shut up, Igor! No one cares what you have to say!" He shuts up, more out of surprise than anything.

But after a few minutes, he starts talking again. After it goes on for a while, the librarian bangs her hand on her desk and says, "Shut up, Igor! No one cares what you have to say!" He shut up for good that time.

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33. Waiting Game

I'm sure this happens pretty frequently. A girl in my history class in middle school needed to go to the bathroom, and the teacher said wait because he was in the middle of an important lecture.

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She persisted, and he was adamant. She'd been known to go to the bathroom a few times per single 1-hour class, so he probably thought she just wanted to stop listening.  

It felt really awkward as she stood by the door with a strained face and then blurted out she was on her period. I don't know whether it was true or not, but he let her go real quick, and she came back, embarrassed.

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34. Bursting out

A friend tried making a joke by farting. It wasn’t unusual for us as he always made silly jokes like that. Anyway, he was gonna pull off the "Does anyone smell popcorn?" prank.

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I think you know where this is going, huh? Well, yeah, after he said does anyone smell popcorn, he tried really hard farting.

And, of course, what bad could happen, right? Oh man, his face turned super red, and he ended up pooping himself and walking out of the classroom.

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35. At Least He Tried

It was recently in my college history class. We had to give presentations by a certain date, but the teacher is really lenient, so a lot of people are getting away with doing it at the last minute.

This one guy was scheduled to present a couple of weeks ago, but every time he would go up there, he would just put in his USB and slowly click around and then say, "Oh, it didn't save again; I guess I'll have to do it next time" (even though he never had to volunteer, but he always did).

So, one day, he finally has it, and it takes him forever to figure out how to pull it up in PowerPoint. It was just a bunch of white slides with one to two sentences each on them. No pictures (except one of a document), no colors, no particular format.

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He would read the sentences off of his slide and then pause and think about them for a second as if trying to think of something to say and then just move on to the next one. (It's important to know that he didn't even enter presentation mode; he just clicked back and forth through the slides).

When he got to the single picture, the teacher asked if he could at least tell us anything about or about what it said. He stared at her for a second, then he just stared at it for a minimum of two minutes (I swear), trying to read it before he gave up and moved on to the next slide.

Every sentence in his presentation was just a date with no context, and he mumbled throughout. No one was looking at him because it was too painful. I just had my head in my hands the whole time, trying to take my mind off of the situation.

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36. Cute but Deadly

I was delivering a speech in 7th grade for SpeechMasters (does anyone remember those?) I took a small pause in my speech to breathe.

When suddenly, the cutest girl in our grade farted the perfect, just most too terrific fart that a girl could ever produce. The timing was absolutely perfect.

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I looked up and made direct eye contact with her, and she just stared right back at me, facing swelling up with unknowable embarrassment. Everyone heard. She's still hot.

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37. Hard Headed

In my grade 11 science class, there was a large and rather annoying troll-looking female. She was constantly turning around, babbling to her friends about cigarettes and how school was lame. It was bad.

Our teacher would constantly have to tell her to quiet down and pay attention. One day, she was particularly annoying and, again, babbling about nonsense, ruining everyone else's experience.

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After about the 10th time of asking her to stop talking and pay attention, my science teacher yells, "Nadine, why don't you pretend I'm a chocolate cake or something and face the front of the classroom!" The entire class broke out laughing. She shut her mouth, and everyone was happy except for Nadine.

TooManyDucks

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38. Failed Impostor

A girl in my French class thought she was hot. She would speak with a forced French accent to sound smarter than everyone else.

One day, she pronounced Google "Guugel" or something like that. 

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Everyone burst out laughing, including the teacher, who was from France and obviously spoke fluent French.

That would be the most awkward moment for her, pretending to be smart by using a French accent. It wasn’t cool, and she just looked dumb.

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39. Bad Habit

In biology class in 10th grade, we had a cute teacher that I had a crush on, and she asked me to help her sort some notes on her desk.

Her scarf was on the desk, and I have a habit of smelling people's clothes (I have no idea why), so I picked it up and sniffed it with a sigh because it smelled so good.

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When I opened my eyes, the entire class of about 30, as well as the teacher, were just staring at me silently until a faded voice from the back said, "What the heck are you doing?" Then the class busted out laughing, and with my blood-red cheeks, I walked out of the classroom, never to return again.

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40. Should've Known Better

Sophomore year of High School. My friends and I were in the cafeteria eating lunch and discussing what we were going to do after school.

We were making plans so we could all ride together, and I said, "Let's all meet at the Lion Statue." Everyone looked at me with a quizzical look, and one of them asked, "What lion statue." I was like, what an idiot, The one in the front of the school.

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They all looked at me like I was crazy. "Do you mean the wolf statue?" No, I said, the Lion statue in the front. "Why do you think that's a Lion?" It's our mascot. "No, our mascot is a Timber Wolf," they say.

I sat there, looked around the cafeteria I had sat in for two years, and as a table full of people stared at me, dumbfounded, it slowly dawned on me that I had been mistaking our school mascot for a Lion for almost two years. Then they all made fun of me.

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41. Becoming Famous

This toxic instructor was teaching us a procedural thing and a woman in the class raised her hand and asked a question about it.

He started to remark about what a stupid question it was and she cut him right off with a stern "don't you speak to me like that," We all just had our mouths open, including him.

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He ended up answering the question, but you could tell he was flustered for the rest of the class. After it was over, she got a lot of high-fives out in the hallway.

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42. PrideTakes Over

A girl screamed "I NEVER cry!" because a boy said that she was crying but she was just very angry. The whole class burst out laughing.

It was all because she had cried the day before (she had pain, I don't know why, but whatever she cried), she ran away out of the classroom outside.  

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Then she didn't come back till the next class. The teacher seriously thought that she was going to the principal. It was actually pretty sad.

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43. Bad Joke

My psychology teacher in my junior year of high school was a total arsehole. He acted like a child and would constantly rag on anyone.

So, one time, our class discussion got off-topic, and we were talking about awesome pets to have. 

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Someone in the class who showed pigs at the fair said they were awesome, and some girl said that she wouldn't want one because they "get too fat."

Our teacher then thought this would be a perfect time to pull a "your mom is too fat" joke on the girl. Little did our teacher know the said girl's mom had died two weeks prior.

It was intensely awkward.

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44. A Big Blowout

I was in a class called Dalcroze Eurhythmics. Well, it's similar to a dance class, so it's in a big room with mirrored walls and wooden floors, and we all have our shoes removed, sitting cross-legged on the floor.

The teacher is silently demonstrating something we are gonna be working on, taking carefully measured steps, looking down at his feet, and the class is dead silent.

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I had been holding in a fart for a long time, and it became too much, so I tried to let it out as silently as possible. Nope, It let out in one huge, loud burst. If that wasn't bad enough, I was so surprised I loudly exclaimed, "Oh!"

No one made a sound. No one moved or laughed, and the teacher didn't break concentration. I was just left there, my face growing bright red from the whole thing. I still cringe when I think about it.

Halfachainsaw

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45. Bad Temper

In 4th grade, this kid named Matt got really angry and flipped his desk on the ground. The teacher screamed, "GO TO THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE NOW! PICK YOUR DESK UP FIRST!"

Matt walked to his desk with a scowl and tried to pick up his desk. It was too heavy, and he couldn't pick it up. 

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He struggled and fell onto the floor.

The desk didn't move a centimeter. He started to cry, and I felt bad for him, but everyone laughed at him for being weak. It must have been super humiliating.

theguycogecho