What is a childhood memory that still haunts you?

I can't remember if this happened when I was suspended from school for a while (that one's a bit of a long story) or if it was when I was sick for a while and couldn't come in. I want to say it was in elementary school so I'd have to go with the sick angle. Anyway, I was out of school for a while long enough where the teachers had been sending me my homework so I wouldn't be too far behind.

And one day, the homework packet came complete with a number 2 pencil, unsharpened. My Mom ended up sharpening the pencil and we used it to do my math homework. But, a little further down in the packet was instructions on how to make a pinwheel for science class…using the pencil that we had just sharpened.

Well, I kinda freaked out because my Mom sharpened the "Science Pencil". And if I recall correctly, it took the teacher reassuring me that the pencil wasn't all that important to calm me down about the whole thing. But to this day, the memory of the science pencil that had been deprived of it's chosen destiny haunts me.

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