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In reply to the discussion: Obama Speaks Carefully So That He Doesn’t Prejudice The Federal Ferguson Investigation [View all]pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Decades ago, on the way to a junior college history class, someone jostled me in the hallway and my front upper partial (result of a VN War injury) popped off. I repaired to the men's room to try to fix it. Took me a while, but I finally wedged it back on by stuffing a little TP in.
When I got to class, the prof stopped in the middle of his lecture to demand an explanation for my tardiness. I was too ashamed to try to explain, so I just muttered that I forgot the time. After some more abuse from the prof I was able to take my seat.
I was mortified, humiliated, angry. With our mid-tem exam coming up, I figured that was how I would SHOW HIM!
I studied my ass off and even showed up on campus at 5am, hours before the exam, to go over my notes once again.
On the day the exam results were in, the prof announced that this was only the first or second time in his long years of teaching that he had a student get a perfect score on one of his exams. And he proceeded to walk down the aisle to plop my perfect paper on my desk.
Afterward, I had a lot of classmates coming up to ask if they could study with me.
But if it hadn't been for that prof putting m on the spot and humiliating me in front of the class, I never would have aced his exam. All because of my damn teeth!
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