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    I Regret To Inform You, But If You Remember Literally Any Of These 50 Things From Elementary School, You're Officially Old

    By Dave Stopera,

    2024-09-06

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    1. If you've ever pure joy you felt when this TV got rolled in...

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    x.com / Via u/IASIPFL

    2. If you've ever washed your hands with this strange pink soap that only existed in schools...

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    3. Or this kind of soap...

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    4. Probably in a sink like this...

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    5. If you've ever hoped and prayed for your food of choice while looking at a cafeteria calendar...

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    6. If you've ever been assured getting underneath one of these will protect you from a nuclear bomb...

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    7. If you've ever been flung off one of these at 100 mph...

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    8. If you've watched someone open one of these markers and immediately smelled its intense aroma...

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    9. If you've ever had to use this in a classroom...

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    10. If you've ever looked up and gazed upon the giant cursive letters all around the room...

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    11. And wrote some cursive on a piece of paper like this...

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    12. If you remember using these scissors that made your fingers feel IMMEDIATELY sore...

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    13. If you've ever stabbed your eraser so much it ended up looking like this...

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    14. If you ever tried to push all three levers of this pen down at the same time...

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    amazon.com

    15. If you've eaten that ice cream that seemed to only be available at school...

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    16. If you ever used these little cute erasers that did not erase, only smudged further...

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    u/trevordunt39 / Via reddit.com

    17. If you've ever sat in that unmistakable art class stool...

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    18. If you've ever fallen asleep in the back of class to a scene like this one...

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    19. If you've ever created a masterpiece with this...

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    20. If you've ever opened up the sharpener to clean it out and smelled that unmistakable pencil shavings smell...

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    21. If you remember first catching a glimpse of the hallowed Ball Room in gym class...

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    22. If your school had a cafeteria and the auditorium being the same room AKA the CAFETORIUM...

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    23. If you've accidentally dropped one of these on the ground and saw it EXPLODE everywhere:

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    24. If you still remember the fool-proof way to draw a bird...

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    25. If you've ever felt that unmistakable static from one of these chairs...

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    26. If you remember eating one the best lunches imaginable: Chicken Patty Day...

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    27. If you've ever spent way too long learning how to spell bad words in your calculator...

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    28. If you ever did math with these little blocks...

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    29. If you remember those Halloween decorations that seemed to just appear...

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    30. If you remember those days in gym class where you had to put on a pinny that reeked of stale sweat...

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    31. If you ever ran your hand along the wall exactly like this...

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    32. If you ever told time on one of these little yellow clocks...

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    33. If you ever once truly believed that the blue part of this eraser could erase ink...

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    34. If you've ever drawn this exact sun on the corner of a page...

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    35. If you've ever given yourself a lead "shot"...

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    Twitter: @AngrySupervisor

    36. If you remember sitting in those chairs with tennis balls on them...

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    37. If you've felt invincible after opening a fresh box of mechanical pencil lead...

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    38. And then broke your pencil for no reason...

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    39. If you've ever prayed to the snow gods...

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    Twitter: @theleoashe

    40. If you've drawn some masterpieces using this ruler...

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    41. If you've put glue all over your hand and peeled it off like a madman...

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    Twitter: @netgrind

    42. If you've prepared for battle with a sword made out of markers...

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    43. If you collected all sorts of box tops in an effort to raise money...

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    44. If you've put your hand on one of these tables in a science class and felt how cold it always was...

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    45. If you've ever pulled this trick...

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    46. If you played on a splinter-full playground like this...

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    47. If you know what goes inside these...

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    48. If you've stayed home sick and spent the entire day watching this guy...

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    49. If you've ever covered a text book in just a bunch of paper to keep it safe...

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    50. And if you've clapped together two erasers and saw that big giant toxic cloud of smoke...

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    Then I'm sorry, you are officially old.

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    C9791
    15d ago
    those awful blue static filled chairs....my hair always got tangled around the bolts!!! unfortunately I remember most of these and yes I am old lol
    Ratio
    27d ago
    in first grade when we all lined up to sharpen our pencils.
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