I’m in first grade when I and a classmate are both permitted to leave and use the bathroom. When we get there, we see someone scrawled ‘SEX’ on the bathroom stall in big letters. When we get back, my classmate goes up to the teacher and tells him we saw a ‘naughty word’ in the bathroom.

“What word was it?” He asked her, so she quietly told him. He then proceeded to ream her out about saying ‘naughty words’ out loud.

If you going to get angry about her saying it, you shouldn’t have asked!

(My best friend and I are both big fans of a certain block-based computer game, and we have long talked about recreating various well-known places and game icons on the server we play on, including one place in particular which we adore. We are talking online one day, as we live in different countries.)

Friend: Dude.

Me: Hmm?

Friend: My buddy just told me he got to tour all of castle Neuschwanstein. Like, you can go inside. Dude.

Me: Whoa

Friend: I KNOW RIGHT?! Field trip!

Me: WOO!

Me: ……..we really are nerds.

(I am in an art class. I, and several other students, have arrived early and we are making small talk with each other and the teachers. A song that is familiar to some of the students has come on, and we are discussing it. It is important to note that this is a class of high school students and the oldest student in the class is a senior, born in 1999.)

Student 1: “I could have sworn I heard that song somewhere before.”

Me: “Yeah, my mom sometimes plays it around our house. I don’t remember what it’s called, though …”

Student 2: *pulls out cell phone and Shazams the song* ” It’s called Spice Up Your Life by the Spice Girls.”

Teacher: *jumps up from her chair* “Ohmygosh that was my FAVORITE song from the movie!”

Student 1: “What movie? There was a Spice Girl movie?”

Teacher: “Yeah, Spice World! You guys should remember that!”

Me: “When did it come out?”

Teacher: “It was … 1995, I think? Or ’96, I’m not sure, but …”

Oldest Student: “Wait, ’95? I wasn’t born then.”

(The entire class is silent for a moment.)

Teacher: “Great. Now I feel old.”

Class: *starts to research Spice Girl movie*

(The year the movie actually came out was 1997 and it wasn’t really a popular movie, which may have explained why most of us had never heard of it.)

Friend 1: What’s Bobby Flay’s brother’s name?

Me and Friend 2: I don’t know.

Friend 1: Chick Fil-A!

*Me and Friend 2 laugh*

Friend 2: I don’t get it.

Friend 1: Bobby Flay, Fil-A sounds like Flay.

Friend 2: Oh! I get it now.

(It is a really slow day at the fast food place, and I am serving some kid and his friends. They all look to be roughly 11 or 12. One of the boys that is ordering keeps flirting with me quite aggressively the whole time and I am starting to get annoyed as I am not interested in robbing the cradle.)

Me: “And did you want anything else?”

Kid: “Yeah, can I add your phone number to my order?”

Me: *deadpan* “Why? Do you need a babysitter?”

(His friends burst out laughing and he quickly left the store after that.)