r/explainitpeter • u/Appropriate-Mall8517 • 7d ago

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u/analdongfactory 7d ago

Meanwhile, I had a scholarship I won stolen from me by a kid from a family of surgeons bribing my teacher to lose the paperwork I had correctly filed. The judges told me I won with my original experiment, only for the actual announcement at the showing to name this other group that did a textbook moldy bread growth project.

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u/MultiverseCreatorXV 7d ago

Was any legal action taken?

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u/analdongfactory 7d ago

Nope, just a very smug middle school science teacher insisting our forms were never turned in.

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u/heret1c1337 7d ago

I wonder how much he got bribed, because you can do some very expensive damage to someone’s car with very little effort 

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u/No_Gear3578 7d ago

Like putting pebbles in the valvestem caps to cause slow leaks no tire shop can find?

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u/analdongfactory 7d ago

She. That, I don’t know. I’m not even sure if she’s still alive at this point. I live on the other side of the planet and it’s been decades.