Return of Memoryfest - Day 2/31

[bironic]

2. Elementary School

At one of my birthday parties in the backyard of our old house (we moved a few months after I turned nine, so I was younger than that), I ran into my dad's friend/mentor Nick, a million miles tall. He asked how tall I was. I had probably just visited the doctor, because I answered in inches. Nick laughed and teased me about being forty-something feet tall, lifting his hand high over his head towards the sky.


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[silsbee329.livejournal.com]

In elementary school I had a Bee Gees lunch box. I loved it, but the thermos often leaked and got the rest of my lunch all wet. I was a pretty big weeper in those days, and one day I started crying over my wet lunch. The teacher, Mrs. C., made me lay in the middle of the carpet with all of the other kids in a circle around me, watching me cry. I swear, that woman was evil. Scary, too - she used to wear her hair in a bun, with pencils and chopsticks and other random things stuck in it.

I did not like elementary school. :(

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, that is a terrible thing to do to a child. It's traumatic enough to be crying in the first place.

On a lighter note, you've reminded me that my Care Bears thermos used to leak apple juice sometimes and make everything in the lunch box sticky and smell of apples.

[silsbee329.livejournal.com]

Aww, Care Bears! Character lunch boxes were one of the better things about school. :)

[thewlisian-afer.livejournal.com]

:( What an awful teacher. I remember when I was in kindergarten I was terrified of my teacher because once a boy called Darren kicked another kid and the teacher grabbed him by the shoulder to hold him still, gave him a swift kick in the butt and shouted, "How do you like it?" OMG. I was traumatized.

[silsbee329.livejournal.com]

Oh, man... Mean, scary teachers are the worst.

[thewlisian-afer.livejournal.com]

She was a scary, scary lady. She had slightly frizzy hair and her eyes bugged out a little even when she was calm and her nose was kind of hook-ish. A witch hat would not look out of place on her head. (And no, this isn't just a little kid's interpretation -- I've seen her fairly recently and she really is a scary-looking woman. XD)