Is it normal that this past situation still bothers me?

Back when I was in grade school and we were learning about positive and negative numbers, our teacher asked us to think of instances where we would gain $100. I was a good kid, but painfully shy at the time. All of the good answers had been said so I wanted to seem cool for once in my naive preteen life. I raised my hand and after being called I jokingly said this: "I stole $100." My sarcasm was immediately met with dissapointed looks from my teacher (who said something along the lines of my answer being horrible since she must have believed I'd done it) and a few classmates. At this point my smile had crumbled and I was too mortified to reveal that it was a joke and the day went on. I do get that since I was known to be quiet back then, it would be less likely taken as a light joke since I'd barely even talked. I'd have to say that the lessons I learned from that are think before you speak, and don't say dumb shit unless you're on bad reality tv. I'd also like to add that I did end up making friends eventually, and at the end of the year I bought that teacher a bouquet of flowers that she loved and a thank you card for being awesome throughout the year. It's just the deep fear I felt while in that situation that I keep remembering.

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  • Handyman

    Every now and then I remember something that I've said or done, or did not do.
    Then I wish to have another chance to do it correctly. To no avail.

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  • Aaaaaaand he's back

    Technically its a valid answer if the question used the word "gain" and not something else like "earn". "Earn" might imply that you contributed something or did something worthy to make the money
    Whereas a person can "gain" from many different ways, legal or illegal, moral or immoral.

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