-the thumb and index finger pinch to get down to the popular warn down crayon in the box that is smaller than all the others

-playing “guess what color crayon this is” while holding your hand over the crayon name

-knowing that the number 5,318,008 might not be funny on paper, but upside down on a calculator it’s a whole other story

-clapping erasers

-dragging the five prong wooden and metal chalk holder across the chalkboard to make multiple strait lines

-twirling a protractor around a pencil

-a teacher reading a page in a book then turning the book around and making a slow back and forth semi circle so all the children can see the picture on the page

-the one kid in the back that whines, “I didn’t see…” after the two semi circles have been completed

-the teacher doing the slight raise up of the book so the whiner in the back can see

-D.O.L.

-rushing through your work so you can go in the back of the room and play Oregon Trail

-making the “ooooooooo” noise when someone gets called to the Principals office

-pulling the hair of the girl sitting in front of you

-wondering if there actually is a fire this time when the fire alarm goes off

-holding your ears while exiting the school during a fire alarm

-being impatient and writing on un-dried whiteout, leaving a sloppy grey indent

-the sawdust like product that the janitor spills on vomit to make an easy cleanup

-seeing who can say “penis” the loudest without getting caught during a lecture

-bringing in Dunkin Donuts Munchkin’s on your birthday

-being mad that your birthday is in the summer

-going to the nurses office after a tooth falls out

-the anxious feeling the day before a field trip

-not wanting your mother to be a chaperone on a field trip

-the trauma of having homework over the weekend

-attempting to pass off a previous homework assignment as the one that is due today

-not getting full credit for a math homework assignment because you didn’t “show your work”

-trying to fool a math teacher into believing you “showed your work” by rewriting the numbers and variables in the problem a variety of ways

-answering Spanish homework assignments by just rewording the words in the question and taking out the question marks

-hearing a teacher inform you that they were not born the previous day

-waiting for the ideal time to sneak out a fart

-getting points taken off a test because you didn’t round to the specified amount of decimal places

-getting points taken off a test for not circling your answer

-collecting Campbell soup labels

-looking up and circling words in the dictionary such as “penis”, “vagina”, “ass”, and “sex”

-having to get a test in which you showed no effort signed by your parents and returned

-a xylophone or x-ray being the only possible pictures next to the “Xx” part of the alphabet above the chalkboard 

-having your syllabus signed and returned, resulting in a 100% on your first quiz grade

-having to use classroom supplied “ARMY…Be All You Can Be” or “Got Milk?” book covers because you forgot today was hold-up-your-books-and-let-me-make-sure-you-all-remembered-to-cover-your-books day

-wrapping your book in the most makeshift way, with no tape and holding it up on the above day, hoping for the best

-hating those people who used the tight, fluorescent, sticky book covers

-drawing a penis on someone’s book cover

-writing your initials over a heart and the person you like’s initials under a heart on your book cover

-three weeks later violently crossing out the initials under the heart and replacing them with other initials, which will go through the same process after the duration of three weeks

-still not knowing which one is the numerator and which one is the denominator  

-still having to think about whether “non-fiction” means true or made up

-a teacher inquiring if anyone in class is "good with electronics"

-covering your hands in glue and anxiously waiting for it to dry so you can peel it off

-being grossed out while glancing at someone peeling glue off their hands and quickly remarking, “I thought that was skin”

-convincing a friend to let you cut his hair with the plastic, safety scissors

-the “What is popular isn’t always right and what’s right isn’t always popular” banner

-mistaking the dark purple crayon with no wrapper as a black crayon

-drawing a sun in the top left corner of your page with a smiley face, inferring that if the entire sun had been present (not just the bottom right quarter) just that fraction of the sun would have the face

-drawing long yellow beams shining from the sun, and shorter orange beams in-between the yellow ones

-sitting Indian style

-wishing your last name was shorter while filling out a scan-tron

-wondering if it is okay to have six B answers in a row on a scan-tron

-wondering why “Only A & C” had to be thrown in there with “All of the Above”

-freaking out because the person next to you has a scan-tron with a pattern that looks nothing similar to yours

-taking the time to remember 5 letters at a time while cheating off of someone and putting little dabs on the corresponding bubble to be completely filled in later

-a teacher using the last question on an examination to portray his/her sense of humor and kindness (i.e. Q: Which of the following is NOT an element on the current Periodic Table?  A: oxygen  B: helium  C:  potassium  D: hot dog buns

-words on a test such as “NOT”, “always”, and “ONLY” being bold, italics, capitalized, or all three

-feeling uneasy when the person you are cheating off of uses his eraser

-pretending to use your eraser just to toy with the person you know is cheating off of you

-using minimum motion and maximum speed to flick a crinkled up note on the desk of your friend

-deliberately knocking your pencil onto the ground so you can fetch a note that has just been delivered in the above fashion

-playing MASH

-asking someone for a pen and getting the response, “no, but I have a pencil”

-shooting an elastic band off of a pencil

-breaking a pencil on purpose so you can walk to the pencil sharpener

-your pounding heart rate during the entire duration of a test you are cheating on

-the stickiness of the glue stick cap

-beginning to slowly zipper your backpack with three minutes left in class, letting the teacher know it is time to let you leave

-a teacher saying “Woah! Woah! Woah! We still have three minutes” when the above takes place

-“We are not leaving until everyone is quiet”

-every child in class saying “Shhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!” in response to the above quote by their teacher

-the hardships to come if one of your friends gets a hold of your locker combination

-how awesome having a locker was those first few days

-forgetting your locker combination the first day back from Christmas break

-rounding up to the nearest hour when looking at the clock to boost your morale

-complaining to your friend that the teacher never calls on you

-trying to make your friend laugh while he is in front of the camera on picture day

-everyone hunching over the window sill when it is snowing outside

-pointing out the window and yelling “Oh man, it’s snowing!” when it really isn’t to catch everyone in bewilderment

-doing so miserably on an exam that you have no choice, but to pretend you can care less

-telling your Mom that “everyone in the entire class did bad”

-coloring in the white blotches on your white and black composition notebook

-putting tape on someone’s back

-knowing you will do at least 20% better than you actually did on your quiz when a teacher says, “Grade the paper of the person next to you”

-hoping that the new seating chart seats you next to the girl/boy you like

-a boy-girl seating arrangement

-receiving a sticker on your forehead for receiving an outstanding test grade

-making a Christmas ornament out of everyday household products

-wanting to be the person that clicks the button to change the slide during a film strip

-realizing that the picture shown on the projector does not match with the audio, surmising that you have failed to keep up with the “Beep” noises

-shooting a crumpled up piece of paper into a wastebasket

-getting caught missing the wastebasket with the paper and having to properly dispose of it

-feeling guilty when you stick a flavorless piece of gum under a desk

-playing “7-up” and cheating by putting your head in your arms, but opening your eyes and taking note of the shoes the person that puts your thumb down is wearing

-complaining that the classroom fan “isn’t getting you” on a scorching June day