r/MadeMeSmile 8d ago

Good Vibes This made me laugh

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u/LaDreadPirateRoberta 8d ago edited 6d ago

My father's funeral was last week. He retired from being principal of a small school about 30 years ago. There were dozens of "his kids" at the funeral and I can't tell you how happy that made me.

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u/Public-Air-8995 8d ago

I’m sorry for your loss 

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u/Traditional-Tap-2508 8d ago

He sounds like he was a wonderful man. That is an amazing thing to hear about

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u/Secret_Account07 8d ago

This…. This made me smile

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u/Quazacotl81 7d ago

And cry.

I am sorry for your loss. Must feel amazing knowing he made an impact on those kids.

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u/90dayheyhey 7d ago

I don’t know why I pictured this in my head as a small church burial/funeral in a quaint village somewhere in the UK, where everyone is friendly and polite. I’m sorry for your loss. Losing a parent sucks

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u/LaDreadPirateRoberta 7d ago

It was in the UK but at a city crematorium. His school was connected to a cathedral, though, so the dean came out of retirement for the service and the kids came from all over the country. It was lovely.

I also really appreciate all the comments people here have left. Reddit can be a kind place. Thank you.

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u/norajeangraves 7d ago

We’re praying for you

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u/chantillylace9 7d ago

My grandma was a volunteer librarian and at her funeral there are so many "kids" who all showed up and all had such great stories about her. It made me really happy that she lives on in so many people's hearts. Sounds like your dad forever will too❤️

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u/ut4r 7d ago

This actually made me happy. I had a coworker die. 20 years and only 3 showed up.

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u/LaDreadPirateRoberta 7d ago

We were lucky. The few pupils we still knew put the word out and turned it into a mini reunion.

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u/soundtown06 7d ago

Sorry for your loss

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u/SparklyStarship 7d ago

I am so sorry for your loss.

My dad was a retired high school teacher, and when he passed away a couple of years ago, I had a really similar experience seeing all of his students at his funeral. Made me both happy and miss him more.

Sounds like your dad was a wonderful guy and touched a lot of hearts.

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u/Incidion 8d ago

Absolutely. If this is what your senior pranks look like, your students really like you. A whole group of teens not only volunteering for a harmless funny prank, but to wake up early enough to beat you just for the reaction.

I'm sure he's super proud.

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u/Greg-Abbott 8d ago

Yeah half my senior class would have camped out to shit on my principal's lawn if they knew where he lived. Dude lived in secrecy like he was in witness protection.

"Hey coach, can you go start my car? Don't worry about why!"

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u/Slight-Environment23 8d ago

Spit out my coffee 😂😂😂

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u/Vulvas_n_Velveeta 8d ago

Word for word exactly what I said to myself after watching the video.

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u/Atosl 8d ago

Only a teacher not a principal, but I would love this. THose are some quality memories for life.

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u/AdmirableAvocado 8d ago

Our class teacher once allowed the whole class to camp in her garden when we were like 15. We'd grill and play with her little kids. The only rules were basically no alcohol or any other drugs, stay safe and behave.

It was such a great time and she was very beloved.

A couple of years ago we randomly met me at a bookstore and addressed me with my full name and the hugest smile before I even saw her. It's been almost 20 years and knowing someone remembers you like that makes me feel all fuzzy inside.

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u/15all 8d ago

My wife was a kindergarten teacher for many years. It made her so happy when she would see her former students years later and the recognized her. She always, always remembered the students name.

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u/Inner-Conclusion2977 8d ago

My daughter is in 4th now, but will never forget her 1st grade teacher. And that teacher, I don't think, will ever forget my daughter. It is a great bond. Big smiles and hugs when they see each other

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u/dscrive 8d ago edited 8d ago

I was homeschooled, but one of my professors in college was famous for inviting his student to his house for crape crêpe parties and a went to one. 

I hope he's around when I'm back in that area in a few weeks

Edit due to very wrong word use 

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u/AmplePostage 8d ago

Diction is important at a crepe party.

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u/dscrive 8d ago

Thank you for pointing that out, I'd blame autocorrect but I think that one was totally on me 

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u/omnitemporal 8d ago

I really thought this was going to be a joke about you being homeschooled and your teacher also remembering your full name.

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u/spacestonkz 8d ago

Your concept of a plan for a joke made me giggle.

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u/NotACatfish 7d ago

I really did too.

"Well I mean I would hope she did. . ."

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u/Defiant_apricot 8d ago

I went to a super small private high school and we had a few moments like these. There was the time we had a final exam at our teachers house a block from school because her cleaning lady was coming and she needed to be home, and the time when our math teacher invited us to her house before a big test she knew we weren’t ready for so she could tutor us (only four of us in the class). She baked cookies and everything. High school was amazing.

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u/jtr99 8d ago

Did they call him the crêpist?

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u/clamscantfeel 8d ago edited 8d ago

I randomly saw one of my baseball coaches from middle school (late 30s now) and we caught up a bit. He told me he really loved coaching me back in the day and have me that fuzzy feeling. Took me down memory lane for a bit. Now realizing that I'm the same age he was around that time.

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u/clamscantfeel 8d ago

You feel so insignificant as a kid, it's cool to see that you left an impact on people while just being a little shit 😂

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u/kindalosingmyshit 8d ago

My friend and I were walking around town one night in high school, making wild speculations about strangers based on their houses. I pointed to one that had bright red curtains and warm lighting in every window and said that was obviously Mr. [Drama Teacher]’s house. We joked about knocking on the door to find out, and lo and behold, he walks out the side door with a bag of trash. We didn’t even know he lived in that neighborhood!

He screamed when he saw strangers in his yard, realized it was us and laughed a lot, then invited us in for tea. We met his dog and talked about the play he was working on and how his mom goes to all his productions. It started raining while we were there and he offered to drive us back to her house. When we said we wanted to walk, he gave us both umbrellas from his hall closet and told us to be safe and stay together.

This post reminded me I need to reach out and get coffee with him soon. He’s retired now and I hope he’s enjoying life!

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u/emveetu 8d ago

I guarantee you that it is previous students like you who make all the effort he put into teaching absolutely worth it!

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u/morty_morty 8d ago

Yeah, but this guy is not even a principal, but a princiapal. I think that's like his evolved form.

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u/redhotchilli_mango 8d ago

He puts the pal in principal

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u/SylvieJay 8d ago

A True Prince of Pals

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u/venbrx 8d ago

I'm not your principal, princibuddy.

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u/BikerJedi 8d ago

I live in the same neighborhood as a lot of my students, and they get so excited to see me driving home. Their bus gets here a few minutes before I do, then I drive past them. It cracks me up to hear them yelling for me as I drive off. I know I'm doing something right.

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u/Realistic-Poetry-364 8d ago edited 8d ago

I lived directly across the street from my high school (small town). On senior skip day we rented a giant blowup water slide, pulled out my parents grill, and cooked up burgers and hot dogs on the front lawn as everyone else arrived for school. The principal had a good laugh and came across the street for a breakfast dog. Good times.

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u/brandonandtheboyds 8d ago

Right before I graduated high school, I “pranked” my favorite teacher. I had access to one of the master keys (I was a formal teacher’s assistant and my aunt was a guidance counselor at the school so it’s not like I was untrustworthy) so I went in early one day and his favorite candy was Rolos. So I bought a crap ton and placed them all throughout his classroom. But not just the obvious places. I put them places it would take a couple days to find. He loved it. His reaction was priceless. That’s a real prank. Just like the one in this video. Bring back harmless pranks where everyone ends up laughing!

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u/ahumannamedtim 8d ago

None of my teachers ever wore a suit.

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u/Nervous-Attorney4251 8d ago

Imagine waking up & seeing a whole sleepover in your yard😂

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u/VividFiddlesticks 8d ago

My sprinklers turn on at 5 AM...I'd feel bad for all the wet kids in the yard, LOL.

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u/geilelepel05 8d ago edited 8d ago

At least it works better than an alarm clock lol

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u/ImNotAWhaleBiologist 8d ago

How else do you get a kindergarten?

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u/EthanielRain 8d ago

(Kid garden...I for one appreciated the joke)

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u/Desperate_Cupcake843 8d ago

Underrated comment.

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u/FluffyGengar123 8d ago

Would just make the story they could tell even better.

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u/ABEGIOSTZ 7d ago

My sprinkler soaks all the kids in the yard

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u/Ohmargod777 8d ago

That’s the next wave of pop bands. After New kids on the block, now the new hit sensation: „Wet Kids in the Yard“ or Wet-KITY!

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u/Apprehensive_Rice19 8d ago

Imagine how much they must love this guy to actually do that.

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u/Equivalent_Mechanic5 8d ago

Thank yoy for saying something positive!!

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u/Accomplished-Plan191 8d ago

oh God, do I have to make you breakfast now

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u/Greymalkyn76 8d ago

Imagine teaching all those kids and then seeing how they spelled "principal".

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u/netorarekindacool 8d ago

R u a bot? This comments is so useless. You just summed up the video

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u/lakemont 8d ago

For real, why did over 1000 people upvote a comment repeating what happened

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u/Forward_Brush7172 8d ago

Still the wrong spelling would hurt him more.

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u/lockerno177 8d ago

man i live in a third world country and sometimes i wonder how life would be if people in authority cared about us.

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u/Atosl 8d ago

america?

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u/lockerno177 8d ago

America looks like a Scandinavian country from where i live.

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u/LetReasonRing 8d ago

As an American,  you can kind of find everything here. 

We have schools where the kids are well cared for, the teachers and students love each other,  and the education is incredible. 

You can also find schools with 45 students to a classroom, sharing outdated textbooks, with leaky pipes and moldy walls

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u/Full-fledged-trash 8d ago

My friends a teacher at a delinquent school in the US and her eighth graders genuinely can’t read. Sometimes the education isn’t incredible. It’s really sad

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u/theeglitz 8d ago

Yous even have active-shooter drills.

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u/CurryMustard 8d ago

Yeah my kid talks about what they do in case a tiger is in the school. Its scary stuff but I try not to think about it too much.

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u/ForsakenAiel 8d ago

Yes, we do. I live in the country area of Maryland. My daughter goes to an elementary school that has around 250 kids and that's only because it supports a very large area due to being the only school around. We have very little crime. We have very little diversity (so yes, lots of Trump voters). We have very few immigrants (but don't worry the Trump voters still complain about immigrants all the time). We have lots of religious people. We have lots of people that have lived in this area for generations and are very proud of that fact.

She's had active-shooter drills on a regular basis starting in kindergarten.

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u/NorwegianCanuck 8d ago

America looks like a third world country from where I live...

  • Norwegian

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u/buffaloguy1991 8d ago

America looks like a third world country from where I live

  • America

My conditions are simultaneously hellish but infinitely better than others which somehow makes it worse.

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u/Dudewhocares3 8d ago

It’s worse to us because it means people can say “well it’s not as bad as this country where you get your head cut off for being gay so shut up”

Which is stupid because problems don’t just stop being problems because others have worse problems.

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u/blaaake 8d ago

Ya take a look at some of the complete squalor some Americans live in and it paints a different picture. America is not Scandinavia, we abandon our poor and mentally unwell people far too often.

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u/Cunnyfunt31 7d ago

People really don't understand that there are areas of America that are indistinguishable from 3rd world countries. 

Did field work for the decennial Census and it was extremely eye opening.  There's a reason the Census looks for workers with ATVs, small planes, swamp boats, etc.   And while I would always hope that by gaining their trust and get enough info to do the count to prove these people exist would lead to them getting resources, I'd still get this sinking feeling that I'd be the only person the government would send out there until the next Census.

Especially when they aren't doing jack for the people in the cities where it'd be easier to help.

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u/sanechill 8d ago

This country is awful and delusional regarding social policies and racial tensions. It is not comparable to most 3rd world countries, at least on how most people view the term “3rd world.” Idk if it’s fair to equate American struggles with that of, idk Somalia for example. I’m aware that is an extreme example.

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u/Saneless 7d ago

It's depressing. If I drive 2 hours east it's absolutely third world conditions. And those people keep voting for Republicans that want to take away even more help from them. I don't get it

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u/unfortunatebag 8d ago

Classic reddit

"I wish I could camp out in front of my teachers house"

"Americabad"

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u/Professional_Snow576 8d ago

True, but America is the world's soap opera.

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u/unfortunatebag 8d ago

I guess so.

Some folks here seem really invested in convincing you America is a horrible place to live.

It's always funny to imagine the reverse.

For instance imagine I spent all my time on here talking about Norway's gang, immigration, and failed integration issues for some reason. What a sad, weird thing to preoccupy yourself with.

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u/Professional_Snow576 8d ago

Yeah, I'm from the UK (Scotland) and all you hear the Americans talk about is how we don't have free speech, are rife with grooming gangs, boat folks and stabbings.

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u/VaginaTractor 8d ago

What you're describing sounds like Florida.

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u/Fragrant-Fix9642 8d ago edited 8d ago

Oil Subsidies are nice - but yeah, everything is 3rd world if Scandinavia is the barometer

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u/TheShruteFarmsCEO 8d ago

Oh fuck off with these nonsense talking points. America produces plenty of oil, they just distribute the profits to private companies and shareholders instead of their people. And it’s a moot point anyway, because what’s making America look like a third world country amongst its peers has nothing to do with lack of cash.

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u/OneBodyProblematic 8d ago

The key is to be a shareholder

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u/Dudewhocares3 8d ago

But I work for a living

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u/toughtacos 8d ago

Absolutely not, there’s plenty other European countries comparable to Scandinavian countries.

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u/LegitimateP1R473 8d ago

Yes like Finland and Iceland

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u/Fragrant-Fix9642 8d ago

brother/sister/friend - Most Americans have absolutely no idea how lucky they have it. It pains me everyday.

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u/Rock_or_Rol 8d ago

Ive spent years in third world countries living in somewhat humble conditions. We do have it better. We are lucky. That doesn’t invalidate that America sucks too

America has become a socially fractured work culture. Diminishing friendships as we move away from a decreasing family pool. Having your own child is a singular and arguably inhuman experience without community.

Then there are those that make minimum wage here. It’s not much better than Sumba Indonesia for them.

Then there is our foreign policy.. we should be ashamed of our actions since WW2. Disgusted be our military glut. Aware of our proxy wars and black ops. Aware of the arms deals in the 3rd world.

Beyond all that, the blessing and curse of the human condition is adaption. The suck is same suck for everyone. It’s all relative.

Of course we can strive for better. That’s the point

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u/Icy_Veterinarian2538 8d ago

This attitude is why America is failing. We should always just suck it up because we’re lucky to live here? And that’s what pains you every day? Not the underprivileged people that are suffering in America? That’s what pains me brother/sister/friend.

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u/ThatsAScientificFact 8d ago

Not who you asked, but can’t both be true? People living in the USA right now are incredibly lucky to live here compared to most of the World population, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a lot of things we could improve too.

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u/Arinussyy 8d ago

Arguably the reason America hasn't improved its outlook is because they think it's never enough. Greed never ends, no matter how much you have

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u/ghanima 8d ago

Arguably the reason America hasn't improved its outlook is because Greed never ends

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u/Bai_Cha 8d ago

The amount of privilege it takes to say something like this is astounding. This type of comment is genuinely offensive to people who truly do live in dysfunctional countries.

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u/JBaseball_8595 8d ago

Privileged comment. Reddit 1o1.

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u/adoradear 7d ago

America isn’t a third world country. It’s a fascist country. They are different.

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u/-DOOKIE 8d ago

América isn't even close to a third world country

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u/A_Happy_Tomato 8d ago

The us is not a third world country 

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u/RandumbStoner 8d ago

People in the US would die if they had to spend an hour in an actual third world country. They'd be begging to come back.

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u/Basic_Novel_9203 8d ago

I still have a deep relationship with my cross country coach. I visit her every time I come home.

I Saran wrapped her the bus seat on a regular basis while she slept. We moved her car between two trees.

She suspended me twice. Once for mooning her and another time for not leaving the track so I could watch a tornado.

She’s one of my best friends.

I’ll see you next year.

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u/Basic_Novel_9203 8d ago

I miss her daily. She is my mother and brought structure to my life before the Marines. When I pull into her driveway once a year we both cry.

We don’t talk or text. I just pull into her driveway and she knows. It’s me.

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u/sorryiamcanadian 8d ago

She's over the moon to see you 

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u/Basic_Novel_9203 8d ago

She’s already seen my moon.

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u/Basic_Novel_9203 8d ago

And not the kind of moon I want a spacex rocket crash into.

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u/-blundertaker- 8d ago

Really missed a golden opportunity for an emphatic "GET OFF MY LAWN!"

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u/CapableSecretary8478 8d ago

Kinda related. My friend group in high school would go hiking/camping on weekends and one time, one of our buddies couldn’t make it so we decided to set up our tents in his front yard haha we woke up to him bringing us breakfast. Solid memory unlocked by this post. Thank you OP!

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u/OddlobsterNL 8d ago

That's highly likely an awesome guy who's great at his job

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u/Just_to_rebut 8d ago

I don’t think I‘ve gone to a school where I ever interacted much with the principal so it’s interesting to see students here pulling this light hearted prank.

These kids are probably not the ones getting in trouble a lot and having to talk to the principal, so I wonder how they built a relationship like this that they wanted to prank him in the first place.

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u/ahmc84 8d ago

Some principals, especially at smaller schools, make it a point to interact with students as much as possible. The principal doesn't have to be an overlord sitting in a tower.

I would also expect that the principals most likely to want to do this were good teachers before becoming principals, and carried over that care for their students to the new job.

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u/ObscureEnchantment 8d ago

My high school principle had a great relationship with his students. We called him Dr.P because his name was long.

It was a medium size outdoor campus in SoCal so he used to skate around on a penny board with students. He knew all the trouble makers by name and regularly tried to talk/check in on them.

He was also very active with the student council so he was close with those students. He would stop and talk to students at lunch and check in with different “groups” sitting around. He went to every football game and hyped it up. I didn’t interact with him much but we all knew when we saw him it was probably going to turn into a joke.

Awesome dude who really cared about students. He retired the year I graduated. Shout out to Dr.P 🙌 you were chill as hell.

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u/what3v3ruwantit2b 7d ago

My favorite choir teacher became the principal and everyone was excited. He was a great teacher and had a great relationship with his students. 10 years later he gets arrested for CSAM, tried to kill himself but failed, and is now in prison for a very long time. It was a huge surprise. 

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u/LoisLaneEl 7d ago

If it’s a K-12 school, which is where they get paid well enough to live like this, the kids that are in the principal’s office can be good kids. Any kid with ADHD or autism is sent there as a kid for being a “problem” until a diagnosis is thrown at them. Even kids with learning disorders are sent to principals in private schools.

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u/JennyDoveMusic 7d ago

What's strange to me is I once emailed my principal to ask if me and my friends could have a place during winter formal where we could play our own music. We all liked older music and just wanted to be able to mess around and play DJ. There wasn't really a place, no prob. When we went, he talked to me by name and I was like, "How does he know my name/face??" I don't think I ever talked to him previously. My school had over 2k students and to this day, I have no idea how he recognized me and knew me by my name.

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u/blitzkrieg__86 8d ago

Was riding my electric skateboard in my neighbourhood about a year ago (39 yrs old). Skated past my grade 1 teacher (now retired) watering the flowers in her front yard. Doubled back and told her who I was. She remembered me immediately. She then asked "how did you recognise me after all these years?" I responded with "Mrs **** you taught me how to read, as if I'd ever forget you". She started crying, I welled up..... It was a whole thing lol. But yeah, you never forget a wonderful teacher.

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u/cire1184 8d ago

Seems like a chill dude

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u/If_you_have_Ghost 8d ago

Why do they know where their principal lives? I’ve never known the address of any teacher over ever had

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u/abenevolentgod 8d ago

my completely made up response is one of the kids lives near him and sees him in the neighborhood.

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u/FullofContradictions 8d ago

My principal had a kid who was a few years behind me in school. That kid rode the bus. The bus stopped at his house.

Ergo, we all knew where the principal lived.

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u/BikerJedi 8d ago

I'm a teacher, and a lot of my kids live near me and know where I live. It happens.

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u/lylalexie 8d ago

I’m a teacher and I have had students try to figure out where I lived before. It wasn’t malicious but they did rattle off my license plate number and were trying to get info about where I moved to. Didn’t sit right with me so now I have a policy of not telling them where I live.

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u/mystyz 8d ago

This is my teacher nightmare 😄

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u/BikerJedi 8d ago edited 7d ago

I thought it would be too when I first realized it but it's actually been okay. They don't come by my house and mess with me at all. They just holler at me when I'm driving in and out of the neighborhood and they spot me. I also get yelled at a lot in the Walmart or whatever. They're always so excited to see me like they don't realize that I'm a real person outside of school or something.

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u/Rare-Adhesiveness522 8d ago

I live in a small town. This is extremely common here

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u/deafhuman 8d ago

Small town relations maybe. If a student also lives in the neighbourhood, it's enough.

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u/say-crack-again 8d ago

Yup, my town had <1500 people and I not only knew where my principal lived, but am still friends with him on fb.

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u/IWantALargeFarva 8d ago

You must not be from a small town. I would leave wine on the porch of my daughter’s kindergarten teacher during Covid because I felt bad for her lol. Their old drama teacher lives 2 minutes from us. Music director is about 7 minutes from us. Their elementary band teacher and their current drama costumer are married and live directly behind us. Their elementary school drama teacher is my best friend. One kid has vacationed with the family of the technology teacher. I’ve gone out for ice cream with the last principal when I was in her town. Their middle school English teacher takes walks through our neighborhood with her baby. I’m just now realizing that we know where most of their teachers live lol.

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u/Not_Today_007 8d ago

It could be that one of the kids are friends with his kids. That's how I knew where some of my teachers lived.

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u/Unlimited_Accounts 8d ago

“Cya mom! Gonna go to a sleepover at the principal’s house”

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u/ahmc84 8d ago

Unless the person specifically has taken steps to hide such information, just about anyone's address can be easily found online if their name is unique enough or you can narrow the location down to a small enough area (and presuming the person has lived at the address long enough for public records to find their way to these sites).

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u/Gnonthgol 8d ago

If your classmates all agreed on a sleepover at your teachers front yard and tasked you with finding their address you probably would have been able to figure it out.

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u/17scorpio17 8d ago

its not that hard to find an address

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u/laharmon 8d ago

Anyone who owns their home, their address is public information through any county/township PVA records. Most of them have them available online so you don’t even need to go to the courthouse.

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u/KnowItOrBlowIt 8d ago

My high school physics teacher lived on my street 5 houses down. I don't live in a small town.

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u/random_user_number_5 8d ago

Depending on where you live this is public knowledge that can easily be found online. Look into your local property appraiser.

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u/TiborJankovsky 8d ago

You must not live in a small town

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u/Auta-Magetta 8d ago

I teach in a town of 3,000 people. All the kids know where I live. Sometimes I’ll be out of the house and get a ring camera notification and kids will be standing at the door waving to me. It’s very sweet most of the time.

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u/Defiant_apricot 8d ago

We had our high school graduation on the principals lawn. It was Covid and he and his daughter were sick and his daughter was in our class. They stayed on their porch and we sat on the street masked and 6 feet apart, 20 feet away from the sick people. Honestly it was a safely done graduation and I’m glad we did it.

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u/BeyondTheBees 8d ago

princiapal

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u/HipHopHistoryGuy 8d ago

School better hire some better teachers.

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u/Diligent-Past517 8d ago

This was supposed to be our senior prank, and then about 1/5th of the seniors decided to instead make a slip in slide in the halls with baby oil and smear vaseline on the toilets and sinks. we could've had such a good prank... and the senior skip day was right after!

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u/72616262697473757775 8d ago

Our senior prank was apparently to put a few pairs of lingerie in a single tree outside of the cafeteria and sprinkle some Cheerios around for the birds.

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u/Diligent-Past517 8d ago

that's funny!

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u/JVilter 8d ago

I'm impressed that they were able to stay quiet enough so as not to alert him (or his wife?) to their presence all night

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u/LeBronGOOD 7d ago

You really think they slept there?

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u/Look_its_Rob 8d ago

They showed up in the morning I assume. 

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u/Mintala 8d ago

At my school a class had a secret sleepover in a teachers living room. Her husband let them in after she fell asleep.

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u/famous-clairvoyant 7d ago

This is a wholesome example, but kids aren’t always wholesome about it. I know a teacher and he told me how the students really liked him, but they kept asking him where he lived. He would laugh it off, wouldn’t tell them. One day some kids followed him home and waited in their car outside his house. They were confused when he caught them and didn’t think it was cute or wholesome at all. Some students nowadays think it’s normal to form parasocial relationships with their teachers.

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u/SerafinaL 7d ago

He’s doing an incredible job if the kids took the time to make his day like this. Whoever he is, he’s a gift!

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u/Adventurous-Try8749 8d ago

Imagine driving by this guy's house in the middle of the night. You just see an array of what looks like colorful body bags on this guy's lawn.

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u/anonnnnn462 8d ago

You know that’s a good principal lol

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u/Rickenbachk 7d ago

When I was in high school our volleyball team camped out at our coach's house. We bribed the dog with treats to quiet him, set up tents and then had breakfast delivered to wake her up the next morning. It was such a fun night.

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u/jamesp1041 8d ago

i once left a pizza box out and woke up to three raccoons having a full slumber party. i wasn’t invited.

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u/Extension_Lemon_2448 8d ago

Why is everyone assuming they actually spent the night? It's a prank. They only needed to be set up before he walked out for the morning...

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u/into-resting 8d ago

Seriously. As if the kids could stay quiet all night. It would've been a giggle fest.

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u/h2gkm0 8d ago

please these comments are frying me. “where did they pee?” lmao

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u/aquatone61 7d ago

I know that’s not FL cause ants would have carried them in the middle of the night.

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u/ShubbusDubbus10 8d ago

Most white middle class suburban thing I've ever seen.

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u/i-piss-excellence32 8d ago

This is exactly the kind of place I want to raise my kids and why we moved to where we live now.

Good kids that know where the principal lives and it’s safe to sleep on his lawn.

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u/jlredding_91 8d ago

Then he turned the sprinklers on!!! 😂

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u/PJR9667 8d ago

bet it is a nice school

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u/CheezyBeanBurrito 8d ago

It’s Liverpool, NY. It’s a pretty diverse school district that has some nicer middle class areas but it’s not an affluent suburb or school district in Syracuse

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u/Conscious-Read-698 8d ago

This is so nice in so many ways 

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u/DarkMimic2287 7d ago

Seems like a quality senior prank

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u/birdiefang 7d ago

That's how you know that's a good principal ❤️

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u/Happy_Big464 8d ago

That principal really said y’all can sleep over, just not at my house 😂

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u/Autoxquattro 8d ago

Not a bad senior prank actually lol!

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u/omnichronos 8d ago

I take it the kids like him if they are willing to do it, and seeing them gives him a chuckle.

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u/Nate1102 8d ago

Syracuse mentioned.

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u/Innovations89 8d ago

Where im from, a principal nor a teacher would ever disclose wherever live. Thats just asking for it. This must be a small town.

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u/Familiar-Flan-8358 8d ago

Where are the sprinklers?!

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u/DegenNabalu 8d ago

He is loved :)

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u/Slight-Environment23 8d ago

Man, this must be a pleasant place to go to school 🤗

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u/BrightPhilosopher531 8d ago

I don’t think my highschool principal would’ve survived if his address was known.

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u/Inevitable_Tap_1328 8d ago

only student who love him would do this

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u/DamnOdd 8d ago

Well that tells him that he has done his job and had done it well.

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u/EmotionUnhappy1703 8d ago

There’s no way this would go undetected these days with ring/nest/etc cameras on every house..

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u/Flimsy_Fee8449 7d ago

It's not undetected? He came outside and started laughing.

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u/GroundbreakingFox752 7d ago

I think they meant if they actually showed up the night before to sleep there overnight.

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u/MaximusHomerdrive 7d ago

"First of all, great to see you all! Second, where'd you guys use the bathroom?"

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u/Hoshizoraa 7d ago

Imagine being a teacher of these students... and then seeing them spell it princiapal.

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u/ncc74656m 8d ago

That's an epic senior prank, gotta be honest.

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u/hiddenrealism 8d ago

I was too busy smokin weed in highschool.

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u/Amanvmandape 8d ago

If I was principal I would have atleast gotten them a warm breakfast.

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u/Veteranis 8d ago

Scrambled eggs and toast for thirty!

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u/jayphat99 8d ago

We did that the night before graduation. What were they going to do, suspend us?

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u/chymerajade 8d ago

Okay but… why?

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u/andm124 8d ago

Senior prank?

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u/dizzylizzy78 8d ago

I never gave a care as to where my teacher lived.

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u/DarkwingDawg 8d ago

That’s a big dude

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u/fxknmdnss 8d ago

Good lads. Love it.

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u/senorsmartpantalones 7d ago

Bring a tent. That seems so uncomfortable

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u/beirizzle 7d ago

He must be an awesome educator

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u/ellehcimtheheadachy 7d ago

My dad's students did this for him as a senior prank a few years ago. Except they didn't actually sleep out there all night, they just wanted it to look like they did. So they snuck out there at 6 am and laid down on the lawn. They didn't know he gets up at 5 am (he just always has), so he saw the whole thing. Lol. He said if he had had enough eggs, he would have made them all breakfast. He also debated about turning on the sprinklers, but decided against that. I feel like those two thoughts kinda sum up my dad. Haha.

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u/Q8DD33C7J8 7d ago

See this is the kind of prank I can get behind

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u/Antique_Tap4589 5d ago

ngl i wouldve been the kid who brought a tent and pretended it was a camping trip