What was the worst experience you had in elementary school?

I was running around the playground, saw a couple of girls with a small milk carton between them,

ran through and kicked it.

Turns out they had a pet hamster or squirrel in it.

I killed the pet right in front of them.

I felt bad about that for my whole life, and I'm 54 now.

My father did that. I'd just gotten a

hamster and it was rolling around in one of those balls while we put the cage together. He came

home from work and thought I got a sports ball or something and happily kicked it at me.

I, uh, got a new hamster. Want to play sports ball, son? Why would someone put a hamster

inside a milk carton?

They're just kids, they wanted to carry it around and figured that it'd be fine.

I was bullied a lot and also had a bad haircut.

One day in class, all of us students were sitting in a line while the teacher spoke.

Halfway through, the teacher stopped talking.

He walked up to me and pulled on my hair saying,

Is this for real? He then erupted with laughter and so did the rest of the class. As they all laughed

at me, I felt mortified. I wanted to die. I will never forget that moment. I had terrible, terrible

hair throughout my childhood at all different stages. And I had this happen in various

situations where the teacher would add to how terrible it was by constantly questioning my hair

and bringing attention to it during class in front of the other classmates. They allowed me to be

constantly bullied by my classmates in front of them without doing a darn thing. I remember when I was

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