The 6th Grade Spelling Bee
In 6th grade at the school spelling bee, we had a "warm up" round so that the students wouldn't be nervous when faced with difficult words in the rounds to come. The words were incredibly basic (ex. Dog, house, pen), but when my classmate came up to the microphone to spell his word, you could immediately tell he was nervous. When given the word "bread", he spelled it wrong and was eliminated in the first round. Gotta love the bee