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TIFU by beating my kindergarten academic rival

This obviously happened a long time ago (lol), but I thought it seemed like a good story. When I was in kindergarten (I was 5 or 6), I had an academic rival. We were both the oldest in our class and the most advanced, as we were the only ones who knew how to read (simple) books and add/subtract large numbers.

One day, he told me he knew his 2 times tables, and bet I didn't know what that was. I had never heard of this concept before, but I pretended like I did anyway. He asked me what 2x2 was, and I guessed 4. He was annoyed that I got it right, then asked me what 2x3 was. I guessed 5, and he shouted that I was wrong. I didn't believe him, so I asked our teacher. She confirmed that he was right, then gushed and praised him for being so smart.

I remembered getting extremely jealous of all the attention he was getting. I wanted to be praised for being smart too! So naturally, I went home and forced my mom to teach me ALL the multiplication tables 1-10. Once I memorized them all, I (very brattily) asked my rival what 8x7 (or something like that) was. When he didn't know, I rubbed it in his face and proudly recited my tables to my teacher, expecting high praises.

Well, my teacher was so impressed that she paraded me around the elementary school. She got me to help "teach" a 3rd-grade class and gave me extra multiplication and division homework to take home every week. As for my mom, she was so scared I would forget them that she made me recite ALL of my multiplication tables before I was able to do anything fun, convinced my teacher to give me a thick stack of arithmetic problems for me to do in the summer, and had me skip a grade, resulting in me never getting to see my kindergarten friends again :D

TL;DR: I took the chance to show off against my kindergarten academic rival, but did it so well I suffered for the rest of the year and summer.

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