“What is your most embarrassing “Back to School” story or experience?

(As we get ‘Question of the Month’ off the ground, readers respond! Be sure to eMail or mail your answers to be considered for publishing.)

“My most embarrassing first day of school happened in my 3rd year, in a small Montana town where generations went to the same 3-room school house.

It was a beautiful fall day and I was not only very shy, but also the largest kid in class – okay in the first seven grades… On the 1st recess of the 1st day of school a couple of friends and I ran out to the playground (after one of the teachers checked for rattlesnakes) and went straight to the teeter-totter.

Because I was so “husky” (God love Grammas), it took 2 of the other boys to bring me up. Unfortunately because the teeter-totter was probably the first piece of playground equipment put in, the board was old and I ended up on the ground with a sore bottom and lived in total shame for years after I moved to Washington and was married with kids of my own.

In fact I had erased it from my memory until this spring when a lady moving from Wyoming came in looking for a home (I work at a Real Estate Office).  As luck would have it we got to talking about our youth and discovered that she was a girl who was 2-years younger than me in the same 3-room school.

After a sharing a few good memories, a light clicked on in her eyes and she said, “Oh that’s right! You’re the one that broke the teeter-totter”…

And after all those years of repression… I didn’t have a donut at break time that day, but it didn’t help much.”

- Sherman, Morton WA

“On one of my very first days of Kindergarten, my mother sent me to school dressed in a cute, green plaid skirt held in place with suspenders.  As was the case back in the 50’s, we settled down for our mid-afternoon nap on our “personalized” towels.  As nap time came to an end, I stood up and my skirt made its way to the floor  . . . falling victim to the dreaded failed suspenders.  Consequence?  I have NEVER to this day worn suspenders again!”

- Patty, Kelso WA

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“If you could choose only two movies to watch ever again, what would they be?”

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