re: #372 reine.de.tout

Backstory?
1) The occasional “D” or “F” test or paper. Well - math was never my strong suit, what can I say??
2) When I would forget to have my parents sign the papers.

That’s about it. Pretty damned dull.

I once tried to bribe my parents with goodies I bought at a fair shortly after getting a failing warning.

“Mom, this is for you. Dad, this is for you. Oh, yeah — I’m also failing English.”

I had completely separated the two events; I was so dumb back then I didn’t have even the slightest awareness that giving my folks gifts before hitting them with bad news would be seen as trying to butter them up.

I was woefully unprepared for the shitstorm that followed.