So last night I was with a bunch of my friends that I've known since elementary school-we basically all grew up within 5 minutes of each other's houses and have been friends for mostly forever. And this one really embarassing story came up and I figured...oh why not share it with you guys? Right?
Here's what happened. Me and my bff were in 8th grade English class with a teacher who was (until that day) my favorite. We were supposed to be writing in our journals and while we were free to write whatever in the world we wanted--there was always a chance that the teacher would pick a journal at random to read to the class.
Which meant you had to be very careful about what you wrote in there.
Anyway, my bff and I were kind of in a silly mood and trying to read what the other was writing in their journal, so we started writing each other's names down to make the other paranoid and make it seem like we were writing about the other.
At least I thought that's what we were doing.
See my journal entry looked something like this:
Blah blah blah BFF's NAME yadda yadda yadda BFF thinks Im writing about her, but I'm just writing yadda yadda yadda, haha BFF nonsense word nonsense word BFF
Totally innocent!
Well...BFF's journal did NOT say Yadda Yadda Yadda. It in fact made a lot of sense. But I didn't know this until our English teacher--seeing how much we were distracting each other--chose HER journal, not mine to read to the whole class.
And it said this:
OMG I have to write down this most serious secret about Frankie. I mean, really, it has to be said. Frankie is absolutely positively head over heels in love with CUTE BOY* and its all Frankie can talk about. CUTE BOY this and CUTE BOY that. Frankie wants to marry CUTE BOY and have CUTE BOY babies!
*name changed to protect the innocent
Well after our English teacher read this, the whole room erupted in laughter and I gave my bff the most stank stink eye possible.
Anyway, one would think the humiliation would have ended there.
Or at least, my English teacher's role in the fiasco would have stopped.
But no. He stayed involved.
See, CUTE BOY was the lead in the school play. And our English teacher was the play director...
So that VERY afternoon, English teacher goes to run play rehearsal with CUTE BOY. And just before rehearsal can start, he pulled CUTE BOY off to the side and in a not so quiet voice said:
CUTE BOY, I think you should know...Frankie is in love with you!
To which CUTE BOY responded....Oh, and went on with rehearsal.
Now you want to know to the really surprising part of this whole thing?
I didn't even LIKE CUTE BOY! At all.
Yeah...Thanks a lot BFF!
Needless to say the whole thing died down pretty quickly and me and my bff are still bffs, but for a minute it's was touch and go there with us.
So have you ever had a crazy middle school humiliation?
hahahah aww! I've had things like that happen to me before, where my friends think it's funny to say I like someone when I don't. In the end, it's sometimes hilarious though.
ReplyDeleteHmm I think your bff sounds totally awesome! I wish I knew someone like her :) And really, how was she to know that the teacher would pick her journal. I'm sure she had her reasons. Once again, for the record, she sounds awesome!
ReplyDeleteMethinks your BFF's name is Anonymous, but anyway I have to say that policy of your English teacher's would certainly have discouraged not encouraged free writing.
ReplyDeleteI think one of my worst middle school moments was during our lunch break on our eighth grade Washington D.C. field trip when the stereotypically fat and clumsy guy in our class managed to accidentally step on a packet of ketchup which then sprayed all over my pants. You never realize just how much ketchup is in one of those little packets until something like this happens.
Oh the shame. I have had the same bff since I was five, and she knows way too many shameful things. lol.
ReplyDeleteI had so many humiliating moments in school I lost count.
Yes!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in Year 7 I told one of my teachers (who knows why? Or maybe my friend did??) that I liked this really popular guy in Year 8. The teacher promptly told the guy, but he actually told the wrong one (the guy I liked's best friend). So I had to cope with all this embarrassment and it was all over the wrong guy!!
Ah, to be young and innocent again!
My mid-school humiliation was my middle name (I was always asked if I had sisters named Moonbeam and Sunshine).
ReplyDeleteFortunately, I like it now.
Ha! okay that is pretty embarrassing. I don't have anything to top it with from that age range...
ReplyDeleteHahaha! I love your story!!! It's so funny! I can't remember any embarrassing middle school stories!! (Has it been way too long?! :P)
ReplyDeleteOh wow, that's awful! I can't think of one so that's either a good sign that I never had a traumatic school humiliation, or that I repressed it! LOL!
ReplyDeleteOMG! :) That's so embarrasing for a middle school kid.
ReplyDeleteHere's my story: a rumor went around that my BFF stuck an orange crayon up her butt. (NO idea how it started.)
Well, my BFF got wind that I claimed that the rumor was TRUE, so she started telling people I was a lesbian.
Then my friend Becky (who was the only girl on the BOYS football team!) stood up for me and told everyone that I did not like girls. Looking back, I really don't see HOW she was able to help my cause. I guess everyone was scared of her.
True (random, but true) story. Cross my heart.
p.s. I never told people that the orange crayon rumor was true!! All I said was that I didn't think she would do that, and I didn't have any proof that she did -- I certainly hadn't seen it happen.
ReplyDeleteOkay, just wanted to clear that up.