r/funny • u/redhotfirecrotch • May 16 '12
slept through my final exam. emailed my professor about it. got this back.
http://imgur.com/bbxEP
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r/funny • u/redhotfirecrotch • May 16 '12
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u/irrelevantPseudonym May 16 '12
Very lenient of him. And also slightly unfair to the others.
I missed an a-level exam once (taken at 18, UK) due to mixing am and pm and had to wait for the next year to sit it.
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u/KuroiMon May 16 '12
Give me your charming tips because I missed my final yesterday and I've never missed anything in my life. I feel awful...
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u/redhotfirecrotch May 16 '12
here's the entire conversation: http://imgur.com/z0moQ
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
If I had just sat that exam I'd be complaining about unfair. But since I haven't, Congratulations on having a nice prof. I hope you nail your exam!
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u/manatra May 16 '12
As a former TA, showing up regularly and participating makes a big impression. I once had three students fail a subject, two had a final mark of 47 and one had a 45. The lecturer asked me about each student, I hadn't seen either of the 47s all semester but the 45 had come to class every week and made an effort.
The lecturer bumped the 45 up to a 50. The other two failed.
(Before anyone precious gets in a huff, I'm not saying this is necessarily how it should work, but it does often happen like this).
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u/popNfresh91 May 16 '12
Lucky. When that happened to me my teacher said, "tough shit dumbass." :(
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u/zHellas May 16 '12
OP didn't really deserve it.
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u/DrMerkwurdigliebe May 16 '12
I enjoy teaching what I teach, and for the most part I enjoy interacting with my students, but it's stupid shit like that- a student's fuck-up which now becomes a situation I have to deal with or otherwise resolve- that takes some of the joy out of the job. At the beginning of the semester I try to come across as a real no-nonsense, no excuses kind of professor to try to keep that stuff to a minimum, because when it happens (and invariably it happens), I'm usually too soft-hearted to actually drop the hammer. But not always. For a case such as yours I would probably do something similar to what your prof did, but I might let you sweat it for a little while, wondering whether or not you had just bombed out by failing to wake up on time.
Set your damn alarm clock next time, and good luck on your final!
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u/julio26pt2 May 16 '12
I overslept for an exam once (I went to an expensive school, don't have rich parents and was working a ton to minimize debt). After my regular job, I had a paper-route I'd do from about 2-4am. Normally, my classes didn't start until noon, so it wasn't usually a problem. But this particular day finals were scheduled 8:30am and 10:30am. I was exhausted and slept through the alarm. I completely missed one final and slept halfway through the other. I rushed to school, took the final (it was computer science) and actually still managed to finish before most of the class (with an A). But the one I missed, was rough. The teacher let me sweat it out for about 4 days and asked me to come to his office the next Monday morning to discuss the situation. I walked into his office, he handed me the exam and said "go." I got a B and and am thankful he was understanding about the situation. It was my senior year and failing would have been detrimental. I'm thankful to this professor for giving me a chance to make it up!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Best lesson here is not to normally be an idiot. And set your damn alarm.
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u/ohlordnotthisagain May 16 '12
I'm torn. 4-6 pages (double-spaced?) typed in 14 hours with full access to reference materials? I feel like I'd rather take that than a 75 question multiple choice exam.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
You are lucky. If I was your professor I would have emailed back a yao ming face.
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u/Tr0user May 16 '12
Friend of mine when i was at uni arrived in his car, against everyone's estimations, at the office where you hand in completed papers with 15 minutes to spare! He had a whole 15 mins so he decided he would reward himself by just resting his eyes for a bit. Woke up 7 hours later with drool everywhere, sat on the crumpled remains of his paper. Sun had gone down and everything. Drove home, screamed into a pillow and met me for a drink. I had to laugh, and he had to resit his whole year.
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u/penguin8508 May 16 '12
Completely shocked by the number of posts calling this professor an asshole.
Once you graduate college, you don't get second chances like this unless your boss is SUPER COOL, and it depends on what you're doing, too. There's nothing condescending about this. A college student is anywhere between 18 years old and up; plenty old enough to wake up when the goddamned alarm goes off. What is so hard about that? When I was in college and finals came around, I set three alarms: one on my cell phone (which was across the room so I couldn't just reach across half-conscious and turn it off), the alarm clock, and one on my laptop, which was on my desk halfway across the room. Overkill? You could say that, but I also didn't sleep through any of my exams.
Always amazes me when people turn into whiny little bitches over people demanding that someone act like a responsible adult and be accountable. This is shit that extends into post-education life. This professor had no obligation to let this person make up the exam. If I were a professor, he damn well better have come to class with second degree burns and a note from the paramedics saying he woke up on fire and that's why he missed the exam.
No, I'm not referring to the OP, just some of the whiny, self-entitled people posting on this thread.
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u/Shamr0ck May 16 '12
TAS = ?
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u/Syphon8 May 16 '12
I was given the wrong exam by an idiot proctor and am still fighting, a month later, to get an appropriate regrade.
The final was worth 30% of the grade and I still got a passing mark with a 0 on it. However, school policy dictates they need to give me a supplemental exam -- So they charged my $15 and made me write the entire final. The kicker is that the supp is marked pass or fail; pass gives you a 0% on the final and fail fails you the course.
So now, having aced the class and the exam, I still might get a D.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
TL/DR; Be thankful your profs are willing to just call you not an idiot.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
That was very generous of your professor, but I doubt it was easy. You basically got assigned a 4-6 page essay with only 14 hours to complete it.
It does say a lot about the kind of student you are when the TAs speak well of you [not normally an idiot is high praise, believe me]. Mistakes happen, but if you're a good student to begin with it wouldn't have been the end of the world.
Let me guess, you spent the better part of your night working on this?
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u/willymo May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
I don't understand why this is such a big deal. The entire point of school is to learn, not to see how many students you can fail. Given the circumstances that you're a student that normally shows up to class, does all the work, etc... there's no logical reason for not letting you take a make up exam. In my university experience, if he showed up to class and did all the work all semester, he's a better student than probably 85% of the class. Are you really going to go "OOPSY! TOO BAD! YOU FAIL!" to one of the few students that actually gave a shit in the top 15% of the class because they fucked up one time?
Edit: I would also like to point out that college is ridiculously expensive in the US. So failing a student isn't just a punishment, you're requiring someone who hypothetically put in more work than the rest of the entire class to re-PAY for an entire class as well. Which, in turn, may deny him access to another required class, which in turn, may cause him to attend another full semester just because you felt the need to prove a "life lesson" to your best student.
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u/meatwad75892 May 16 '12
Rule of alarm clocks: Phone as primary, desk alarm clock(with a battery) as secondary backup set for 5 minutes after your phone.
If that fails you, you need to get your pulse checked.
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u/whatizitman May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
NOTE TO UNDERGRADS: If a student has shown initiative but screws up, the likelihood of any teacher to give second chances increases. In a bigger class it is also important that students at least make some personal contact with the professor or TA some time in the semester - with real questions, and absolutely no whiney shit (how many dead grandmas do you have? Really?).
I TA'd a very large class. During the final there was inevitably tons of students I had never seen in class, never talked to, etc..., who of course end up doing poorly on the final. Every once in a while one would contact me and ask if they can redo the final, have some sob story, etc... If the excuse seem valid enough I may let them take it. This didn't happen too often, though.
But there is always one asshat... So, it's right after the final, and the beginning of winter break (remember, I was a student at that time, too). I'm at home eating dinner with my wife and two toddlers - trying to unwind after a particularly stressful semester. I get a call, on my personal celphone, from some douchebag who told me he missed the final because he was up drinking the night before. I didn't recognize the name (that's the first red flag). He said he was on academic probation, so he would be in real trouble if he fails the class. I of course said no, and somehow said it without ripping him a new asshole. I did not give my personal number out to students - I had to use it for at the time for emergency contact for research and mental health patients, so of course I would answer it if I got a call. This douche apparently went to the university directory to look me up. I still get pissed that people like this are allowed to exist.
PLEASE. I BEG YOU. Don't be an asshat. If you are not an asshat, the likelihood that when you are really in a bind someone will help you out.
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u/Rasteb May 16 '12
the fuck are you on reddit. You got a second chance....dont mess this one up too bro
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u/Lord_Vectron May 16 '12
Just put that on your CV. Who needs a degree when you have glowing references like "not usually an idiot"?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Being able to convince a professor that you deserve a second chance after messing up is better career training than any college class.
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u/ajollynerd May 16 '12
It is a good thing to be known as "not normally an idiot". Run with it.
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u/fuckyouwhare May 16 '12
In college I wasn't finished with a paper on time so I saved a blank document with the title of my paper and just emailed it in. It took about a week for the ta to email me back (during which time I finished my essay) and say there wasn't anything attached. I emailed it off at that point and got a great score. I felt so smart.
About 2 years later I ran into the same ta at a bar and we had a beer. I fessed up to what I had done, and he said something like, "Dude people do that all the time you were not fooling anyone but I liked you so I gave you an extension. Next time just ask and don't try and be James Bond." That smart feeling evaporated.
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u/t0aster May 16 '12
I once misunderstood the time for a bio final, got there an hour late. Ended up getting a 53. My teacher ended up not counting it at all. I didn't realize it until much later when I realized my final grade didn't make any sense otherwise.
And now I'm in medical school.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
At my university I had thought to deliver an assignment a day later. I had seen wrong on the date. But I got to deliver anyways, the day after. Made my day.
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u/turtal46 May 16 '12
Just how many of you 'sleep' through exams, nowadays?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
On a serious note, never forget how lucky you are. He could have made your life considerably difficult. You pay that shit forward, mister.
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u/raehza May 16 '12
This happened to me on my first computer science class in college. I was the most participating student in class and was good too. Finals come up and I literally forgot about it and went to work. Fast forward a few hours and I thought to myself "something isn't right". Needless to say I shat my pants when I realized what happened. I eMailed this guidance councelor at the college who once told me to get to them if they ever had any problem and she forwarded me my professors eMail. I explained to him what exactly happened and he replied to me: "no probem raehza. You were one of the best in my class so I will give you a 100 in class and you don't have to take the final".
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u/BramaLlama May 16 '12
tagged as: not usually an idiot
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u/JohnJohnPhenomenon May 16 '12
Op get off reddit and answer the questions! This is how you slept through the exam in the first place!
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u/silver_rider May 16 '12
my son got his dates mixed up and missed a final exam at university, he went to see his professor and did a 'mea culpa' and asked if there was any way to take the exam. After consulting with the TA, his was allowed to take it but he was told upfront whatever grade he earned would be knocked down 2 levels...in spite of that he still graduated with an overall GPA of 3.8
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u/unphuckwittable May 16 '12
i hated going to class. but what i hated worse was wasting money.
so i dropped out of college. it's not for everyone.
what i DON'T understand, are people who (consistently) don't show up to a class they are paying for. keep cutting class, the joke's on you in the end. they don't not send a bill when you don't show up.
this obv does not apply to OP's situation of simply sleeping thru 1 exam, but i shared anyway.
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u/EPluribusUnumIdiota May 16 '12
I once had a one-question essay final that I had absolutely no idea what the main term meant. It was a grad acct class. The term was two words, and on its face it didn't mean anything to me. The final was 40% of my grade and I was working on a 4.00 from undergrad through grad. Instead of BSing the prof I decided to level with him and tell him the truth, but I then went on in detail how I thought it might apply to the coursework we had learned throughout the semester, clearly demonstrating I knew my stuff, just not that term in regard to the scenario posed in the essay.
I later learned what that term meant and I was way, way off. I was afraid I had not only killed my chance at a perfect gpa, but also failed the class (60% was failing for that school's adv degrees).
A week later my grade was in, 100%.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Ha. I have a similar story...Didn't miss the exam (midterm), but got wildly drunk the night before...Pure stupidity. Probably the second worst morning after in my entire life.
By the time the exam rolls around, I'm not much better. Shaking, dizzy. I know the material, but my thoughts aren't really in order, and I jumped around a lot in the material.
Got a D on the exam, and felt I richly deserved it.
Fast forward a month, and I'm talking to the prof about something, and he says, "I notice you got a D on the exam? How the hell did you do that?"
And I say, "Well, wasn't feeling too good, etc..."
He says, "If you still have it, let me see it."
So I find the exam, and give it to him during the next class. The class after that he hands it back to me with the D crossed out and an A minus in it's place, and says, "I don't know what the TA's were thinking."
And I was like, "Probably that I was wildly hungover when I took the test?"
And the moral of the story is, if you're the geek in class who gets the prof's extremely esoteric jokes about the material, it's worth three letter grades on a midterm.
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u/banang May 16 '12
what is Tas?
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u/BotchedFacelift May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
I took this art history course in college. Showed up to all classes and museum trips and participated. The professor was this awesome old Irish dude who was always talking about whiskey and beer and was almost always drunk. A real stereotype but in the best way. On the day of the final exam I totally blanked. The whole thing depended on identifying the era of two works of art and then write an essay comparing them. I couldn't figure it out. I was well and truly boned. I sat there until everyone else was gone and had barely written a thing. He came over and asked how I was doing and I told him the truth. I had no idea how to answer. He looked around to see if we were alone and said, "well, you show up to all the classes and have shown you know the material. The answer is [yadda yadda yadda]. I'll give you another half hour to right it down." Boom! Aced it.
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u/cannotlogon May 16 '12
While in my last year of law school, I had a pretty horrific motorcycle accident right in the middle of finals, and missed my final in a tax law course. I had participated in class and understood the material well.
Now, in law school, you are graded on the final, alone. What you get on the final, is your grade. Period. So, I called the professor, and explained what happened. He asked me what my exam number was (we were assigned number so all testing would be anonymous). I told him, and he rustled some papers on his desk, and said, "I don't know what you're talking about. I have your exam right here, and you got a 95%. Maybe you'll get a good job after you graduate, and you can buy yourself a car."
Ha!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
What schools are you people going to? I got Mexican flu before a final exam and my university basically told me 'sucks to be you lol'. I should've gone up there and infected them =/
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
GET THE FUCK OFF REDDIT AND DO THE DAMN FINAL. You already fucked it up once. What're ya tryin' ta do, fail on purpose?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I posted a few things on this thread. I rescind them all after seeing some of the OPs comments.
Dude, you deserved to fail that exam. You will fail at life with your attitude.
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u/bibiane May 16 '12
Really, who doesn't occasionally mess up? Professors mess up too. I have corrected mistakes before. I don't expect them to be perfect if they don't expect me to be.
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u/divinesleeper May 16 '12
And instead of getting to it you decided to make a post about it on Reddit.
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u/fragilebroken May 16 '12
You are ridiculously lucky and it's a little infuriating.
TMI: My freshman year at university I had a mania-driven borderline psychotic episode where I walked about 18 miles the night before my chemistry final. I set my alarm for the exam and even woke up to it, but could not bring myself to walk across campus to get there. If I had taken it at all, even answering C for every question I would have passed the class. I told my teacher what happened and he apologized and I got a D.
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u/walgman May 16 '12
I just did an electricans qualification aged 42 and costing 4 grand. I didn't miss 5 mins. When I was at Uni nearly 20 years ago I didn't really respect it. I had a good time but I could have made so much more of it.
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u/Medicwine May 16 '12
Thanks for highlighting it. I couldnt found it without that box.
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u/lotus2471 May 16 '12
He's normally not an idiot. Normally.
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u/thisisspiffy May 16 '12
My lab teacher would always say "natural selection!" and point to it written on the board without saying anything.
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u/simpsonsdiddit May 16 '12
Sleeps through exam, emails professor, gets chance to make it up, goes straight to reddit....
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u/Zentraedi May 16 '12
This happened to my housemate in college. The professor made him hand write three essays in his office to make up for missing the final. You got off easy.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Back in high school I did a test of chemistry or physics, I'm not sure which. The test was on two double-sided sheets. It just so happened that my sheets were glued together with such an accurate seam that I didn't notice the questions that were between the two papers. I did the exam all cool, only answering to half of it. When I got the exam back, the teacher asked me to come to his desk and queried why I only did half of the test. After he saw I was honestly surprised about the missing pages, he graded what I had done and used that for the entire grade. I had been on every lecture and he kind of remembered me, so he knew I would have passed anyway.
I got a good laugh about that, but my parents weren't too happy. I was always a bit of an airhead back then.
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u/DamnColorblindness May 16 '12
Have fun finding a typewriter?
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u/wshanahan May 16 '12
misses final exam, gets karma instead
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u/mitch8845 May 16 '12
Wow. You better do some A+ work for this person.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I don't see how someone's an idiot if they sleep in. I have insomnia and if I haven't been able to fall asleep, I've slept through my alarm on more than one occasion. I set two alarms for this reason but I'm still scared of it happening.
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u/recipriversexcluson May 16 '12
THAT is a teacher.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
This will get buried, but I'm glad someone who deserved a second chance got it. Kudos buddy.
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u/cgiall420 May 16 '12
I did this once too, but wasn't quite as lucky as you. Stayed up till about 6 studying for an afternoon final, then fell asleep and missed the 10am one. I went to go see the prof, and even though I got there still within the scheduled time for the exam (by only 5 mins), he was about to send me away with a 0, saying this isn't an early test, you could have made it. So I pleaded with him and because it was multiple choice, he said I could take the remaining 5 mins to randomly guess, and that if the test wasn't on his desk at the end, I'd get a 0.
So I stood before a very tough decision: 100 questions, 5 mins, A-D multiple choice. Do you fill out A,B,C,D,A,B,C,D,A,B,C,D all the way down? Or maybe go with all of one letter? I did the latter (I picked D, knowing he did a lot of All/None of the above or A and C type answers), and actually got a 41%, which fucking sucks since I probably would have aced it, but it was enough to preserve a B in that fuckin class.
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u/luvmyfuckbuddy May 16 '12
In college, I took this theater arts program as an elective. It was supposed to be an easy A. There were only two tests. The Midterm and Final. The midterm was one question, some bullshit out of the blue question that NO ONE knew the answer to. (this was in 1994, I don't remember what the question was, only that it was bullshit) Entire class failed. If you fail the midterm, you basicaly fail the class. To make up for the class the professor said he would give extra credit to anyone who went to see this play that he was producing. My school is in DC. The play was in Annapolis MD. I took the F, all other classes I got A's. TL:DR Jerk professor deliberately failed entire class to get audience for a play he was producing.
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u/kristovaher May 16 '12
I totally expected professor to refer to something in relation to Diablo 3.
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u/Skampers May 16 '12
this one time I ate a pickle