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This was over 20 years ago, but it’s kinda funny and thought people might enjoy my teenage pain.
I was in high school and The Phantom Menace had recently come out. When I saw it and the STAR WARS logo appeared, everyone cheered their asses off.
Cut to a lecture being given at my school a short time later. 200+ students, all boys school, and the teacher had put the STAR WARS logo clip in his PowerPoint presentation to spice it up a little.
Instantly, I shout “WOOOO!” and start clapping like I had in the theatre a short time ago.
The thing is, I wasn’t doing this to be a little shit. I somehow, in that moment, stupidly, fully believed everyone in the lecture was going to do the exact same thing. That we were all onboard with a thing that I had zero reason to believe we were all onboard with.
So there I was, alone, in a quiet lecture hall, cheering for STAR WARS. I was not a popular kid (you think?) and everyone just started snickering and laughing at me. The teacher goes, “Mr. ThingCalledLight, see me after class.” And I sat there thinking, “why the fuck did I do that?”
I can’t recall if I got detention or not. I was generally a good kid and the teacher may have let me off the hook. But it was embarrassing as hell.
TL;DR: Hooted and hollered in class over Star Wars thinking everyone else was gonna do it with me for no good reason whatsoever, fully embarrassing myself.
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