I have found it amusing before when people have previously assumed that I attended some fancy school and that I was well-behaved during those years.
When in reality, I went to an average state school and I had a bit of an attitude. I used to argue with my teachers, talk back, slack off during PE and curse out our instructors. Sometimes I had a reason for doing so, such as when I was incorrectly blamed for making a mistake when it was actually an administrator issue and I snapped due to being talked down to in a patronising tone. The teacher often talked down to me and I was sick of her nonsense. I had tried to explain and correct the situation calmly three times before, but she kept interrupting me. So I collected evidence and dumped it in front of her and then proceeded to go into an angry rant in front of the class. After I had finished ranting, she apologised and said I was right. Other students called me cocky after that, but I don't regret it.
There was another time I talked back to a teacher. I had to leave the art room early because someone had thrown paint in my face and I went to wash it off. This girl had a history of bullying me, so it wasn't that surprising. Anyway, I walked back into the art room and our art teacher told me off for being late. I told her that I hadn't been late, and that she would've known this if she'd been here earlier. Granted I wasn't actually annoyed at her, and more so the bad day I was having.
People didn't always know what to think of me, since I was the quiet kid going through an awkward stage, but I was also the kid who angrily ranted to a teacher everyone was afraid of and had a habit of publicly insulting PE teachers.
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