Randomosity

[fencer_x]

Flisters, tell me something bizarre that happened to you when you were younger (however much younger is up to you).

I ask this because for some reason I want to share something bizarre, because I randomly remembered it...

So, in elementary school, our school had this system where students from, like, grades 3-5 got to help out in the cafeteria on a weekly rotation. Most enjoyed this, because you got out of class for a little while, you got free lunches and any extras you wanted, and it was pretty easy work--you set up chairs or helped load dishes into those big trays to go through the industrial dishwasher, which was FUN for little kids :D

Well, come middle school, they of course didn't have that sort of thing, which miffed me, because I really enjoyed it. So...I asked one of the lunch ladies if I could help. And surprise surprise, they decided to let me. So, over a semester or so, I and a few other kids got to hang out behind the scenes in the kitchen and gab and be busy rather than having to go sit outside and be bored like everyone else. Plus, we got discounted lunches and any extra stuff we wanted--school food isn't the BEST, but I had my favorites, and there was where the perks came in XD

This went on for a while, our unpaid child labor and whatnot XD And then one afternoon the head lunchlady invited me to go to a meeting with her--it was a luncheon where potential menu items for the upcoming school year would be served to guests, who would rate them for placement on the school menu. So...I got to help decide the lunchtime options for thousands of students XD

It was pretty good stuff, though I dunno that any of it ever made it onto students' plates. I was, like, 13 though. Quite a weird, random experience XD

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[fullmetalkatu.livejournal.com]

When I was in the second grade, I wrote a book in a spiral-edged wide-ruled notebook. It was about Peggy the Pegasus and it was, at the time, my life's work. It was actually beginning to become a multi-volume work when I lost the notebook (though I found it recently).

ANYWAY, I had somehow gotten to show it to the Vice Principal of my Elementary school, who let me sit there and read it to her and explain all of my Nazca-line-esque drawings. I thought this was the COOLEST THING at the time, and it was totally random. I only sort of knew her before that. I was thrilled, though, to share this with an adult who wasn't my mother or father...

I don't know, it's small, but it's random. Weird how I'm looking to become an author myself, now. XD

[cavechan.livejournal.com]

I once almost choked on a donut when I was a lot younger. It was during a like Halloween party after hours at my school (I remember my mom was there) and they had a donut eating contest where the winner got a bag of candy. I ate that donut as fast as I could, too fast, and started choking on it.

The adults paying attention gave me a cup of water to help it down (which in choking cases is usually a bad thing to do, but because it was a donut it helped to "dissolve" it).

I was upset because they didn't give me any candy. :( I would've won.

[amyused.livejournal.com]

When I was in second grade, the school had a contest for drawing a really good and effective anti-smoking poster. Man, I thought I drew the coolest poster ever! It was a guy smoking and a lady next to him shaking her finger at him because of a 'no smoking' sign nearby.

After they announced the winner (sadly, not me), everyone got their posters back... except me. Apparently, the office had kept the picture and called my mom and dad because I'd drawn something particularly offensive. Turns out I wasn't all that anatomically correct with my drawing because the finger the lady was shaking at the smoking man, though I'd meant it to be the pointer finger... wasn't. XD;;

The office was laughing so hard that they didn't want to give the poster back to my mom. It's now framed and hanging in my parents' bathroom. XD;;;

[kwansan.livejournal.com]

(Haha, my elementary school did that, too. I always looked forward to my serving time XD)

I have a small scar on my left cheek that I always thought was from a time when I fell in the ice years ago during one of our family trips to Tahoe. On our way there recently, I said I hope to not get anymore scars from falling, and my mom asked me what scars I was talking about. I pointed at my cheek, and she told me that's not from the ice in Tahoe.

I've apparently had that scar since I was four. It's because I got into fights with my babysitter's son at that time, and that scar is the result of one of those battles. So basically I started getting into fights at age four.

But I have no recollection of any of this XD;; The only reason my mom knows is because the babysitter told her when she came to pick me up.

[viherkyn.livejournal.com]

My elementary school did that too! Except just for the students from grade 6 got to help out.

I can't remember any bizarre story to tell now though. :I

[wishingstar525.livejournal.com]

My oldest sister's third grade class once took a trip to the children's museum in Chicago (or maybe it was Indianapolis). My mom was room mom so she had to go and I (being like three) went with. Well they had this huge submarine for the kids to play in and I wanted to play with it also. Well, The group wasn't going there yet so of course I couldn't, that didn't stop me though. I went to that submarine alone, and as I was climbing in I hit my face (right between my left eye and nose) busted my nose up and then promptly blacked out. One of the kids in there told their mom and she called security who found my mom, after my mom made sure I was okay (got checked out by the EMT and changed my bloody shirt into a free Children's Museum Shirt that was huge on me)she took me into the bathroom and spanked me for running away! I figured that I had gotten enough punishment by the big cut that was on my face(I had to wear a bandage that was similar to an eye patch because of hoe close it was to my eye), but my mother didn't think so. I still have a scar.