[–] Count_Chocula 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago (edited ago)
When I was 15 I was learning to drive a car, my dad was sitting in the passenger seat playing a violin and I hit a patch of black ice, spun and flipped the car down an embankment into a tree. My dads door was what hit the tree, the violin case had come part way out of the car while we were flipping and got smashed between the car and the tree, my dads head hit that instead of the tree and saved him from worse injuries or death.
[–] notthatasian 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Damn... Music saves lives. Glad your dad was fine
[–] TardisParkBoys 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Does your father frequently play violin while riding shotgun?
[–] Count_Chocula 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Not frequently, no. I believe that was the first and last time.
[–] TardisParkBoys 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
My high school French teacher really, really liked Earth Day and Arbor Day. Like, we would have parties in class to celebrate Earth day, with french foods like crepes and petit pain au chocolat and shit like that. Well during my junior year, he was retiring, and so he wanted to make his last Earth Day as a teacher special. We planned to chip in and buy two saplings to plant outside the school, but Earth Day came along and we still hadn't purchased a tree. So, during French class, he wrote two students a pass to drive two towns over to a tree farm, pick up two trees in my friend's mom's minivan, and drive them back so that we could plant them. In the meantime, the rest of us all watched Pixar movies and ate crepes. When the students finally got back, class was over, so he told us we were all excused for our next period and we went outside and planted those trees.
The same teacher kept several large kitchen knives in a filing cabinet beside his desk for cutting cheese and French bread at our frequent "parties" (Earth Day was just one of many excuses to forego class and eat pastries and shit). My friend J was known for being somewhat of a klutz, so the teacher always refused to let J use the 8" bread knife to slice bread. J would always jokingly make a big deal about it, and the teacher would pointedly assign the cutting of bread to a more responsible student. On the last day of school, the French teacher gave J the 8" bread knife as a gift - at school. J walked around for the rest of the day with a large knife in his backpack.
There was another time we had planned to hold a party, I don't remember the occasion, but it was mostly an excuse to watch Ratatouille, because we had recently introduced our teacher to Pixar movies and he absolutely loved them. Anyways, it was a last minute decision, and very few people actually brought food or paper products. Not wanting the party to suck, my French teacher gave me $30 and wrote me a pass to the grocery store to buy more food for the party. When I returned to school and explained my pass to the secretaries in the front office, they just laughed and said "Oh, that sounds like Mr. L alright" and let me go.
TL;DR: my eccentric French teacher was close enough to retirement that he was able to get away with just about anything, and as a result I learned very little French.
[–] redheadedbastard 2 points 2 points 4 points (+4|-2) ago
While out drinking in a bar one night some shitbag decided to pick a fight with me. I knocked him AND his girlfriend out with one punch. I truly felt like a real god-damned badass that night.
[–] ClitoralCommander 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
Some guy in class was watching porn during lecture. He had his headphones on, but they weren't plugged in, so he thought that what was playing out loud was coming through his headphones. He eventually realized, looked around to see everyone staring at him, and then plugged in his headphones and moved on to another porn video.