At my parochial K-8 school, the church's assistant pastor at the time had my 8th grade class help clean the church's garage and small rectory patio as a way to earn service hours for our confirmation. To thank/reward us, we received a glass bottle of soda from a supply that was stored in the garage. Right after I finished mine, a yellow jacket flew inside the empty bottle and scared me - mostly because I had no idea if I would be allergic to a potential sting. One of my classmates poured some of his soda inside to drown it. Thinking that was the end, I dumped the yellow jacket and the soda out onto the ground and couldn't understand why some of my classmates were upset with me. Later, one of them approached me and asked if I knew that they wanted to save the yellow jacket so they could look at it under the class microscope for science class. I told him no, otherwise I would have let them have it.
I can't recall if I shared this before; I believe this also happened in 8th grade. The class as a whole didn't do too well on a music theory test that our principal, a Dominican Nun, decreed that anyone who scored less than 40 out of 50 would have to stand against the wall in lieu of recess for the rest of the week until we turned in a test correction that brought our score up to 40. Thinking my score of 39 and a half would round up to 40, I asked only to have her snap back, "What did I just say?" After she left our classroom, a classmate and I laughed about the idea of me needing half a correct answer to get the needed 40 points. Sad thing is, I misread the instructions for one section and lost points where I could have easily aced those questions.
The classmates that scored well below 40/50 were so mad that I was to be punished over a half-point that they told me to go join my classmates on the playground and that they wouldn't tell on me for doing so. I did, and I submitted a test correction that earned me 1 more point to put me over the target by a half.
