Misery loves company, and you can find that company on social media. Folks there are always there to share your pain, or maybe mock you a bit for it. It's also a convenient spot to relive your awkward phase and find out how it stacks up to others' memories of grade school.
Even for those of us who escaped grade school with few blemishes and spotless records, chances are we have at least one scar: the pencil lead.
Twitter user @Los_Writer wanted to meet more people like that, and boy, did he get what he wanted. Although he has since taken his tweets private, the evidence lives on, just like all those pencil bits stuck in people's bodies so many years after graduation.
The pencil lead gets jammed under your skin, whether out of malice or sheer clumsiness, and the mark it leaves never, ever goes away.
As much as you might want to erase the circumstances around that little gray dot, you can't. This guy will never run with a sharp, sharp pencil in his hand again.
It's certainly a lasting reminder, isn't it? Generally speaking, people can always remember the story that goes along with the lead under their skin.
Bet this guy will never forget his single digit multiplication now. Either that, or he'll always hate single digit multiplication.
And how many brushes with more serious matters folks have had. Sibling rivalry is tough when you're growing up!
Homework is hard, but man, it's not worth stabbing over. Maybe that's a lesson in itself though.
But credit, I suppose, to the one who at least tried to apologize for it, albeit years later. Making amends is important!
It's like you and your friends all got matching tattoos to commemorate your trip to Iceland or something.
The good news is that if you got jabbed really well, you found out who really cared about you. Good work, Auntie!
I mean, there's some serious injustice behind some of these. How does the victim get detention?
Ugh. This is so me. If I were going to mess up, it would be exactly this way, scarring my own face for life.
Good to know I'm not alone!
