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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

What's the most unexpected thing you've had in your backpack at school/college?

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What's the most unexpected thing you've had in your backpack at school/college?

@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years ago
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  • Melina [they/them, fae/faer]
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    1•2 years ago

    Hot sauce

  • @[email protected]
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    2 years ago

    A M16

    • funkajunk
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      4•2 years ago

      It’s just a prank, bro

  • @[email protected]
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    2•2 years ago

    Large bottle of bleach.

  • @[email protected]
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    17•2 years ago

    Unexpected for ourselves or for the rest of the classroom/teachers?

    Not a lot I can think of but I do remember with horror when a classmate opened his backpack an this cockroach just came out of it running for its dear life

  • ikiru
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    23•2 years ago

    A brick.

    No, I won’t explain.

    • JK1348 [he/him]
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      2•2 years ago

      Please explain lol

      • ikiru
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        5•2 years ago

        All I will say is that I wasn’t doing anything related to construction/masonry, and it was not intended nor used for anything violent or illegal. And it wasn’t a lucky charm nor meant for self-defense either.

        But I carried my brick daily. Sometimes I would carry it in my hand if it got too heavy on my back though.

        • JK1348 [he/him]
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          3•2 years ago

          Comrade brick

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      6•2 years ago

      I know someone who brought a brick with himself on 1st year of high school.

      By any chance, did you also bring a PC motherboard?

      • ikiru
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        3•2 years ago

        Nope.

        • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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          4•2 years ago

          Ok, thanks.
          At least you know you weren’t the only one.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    21•2 years ago

    The spanish inquisition

    • @[email protected]
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      9•2 years ago

      Didn’t expect this one.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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        8•2 years ago

        Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!

  • @[email protected]
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    7•2 years ago

    In MY bag? Nothing really comes to mind. In someone elses bag tho?

    It’s been years and I still remember the guy that carried around a gym bag with wheels of cheese in em in my community college. Dunno if he was selling, but i was always kinda wanted one NGL

    • @[email protected]
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      8•2 years ago

      Spotted the Skyrim player?

      • @[email protected]
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        2•2 years ago

        Man was clearly doing a quest for Sheogorath lol

  • @[email protected]
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    13•2 years ago

    A large green pushbutton with a Molly guard labeled “OK” I found in a scrap pile behind the physics building.

  • @[email protected]
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    25•2 years ago

    A bottle of mustard. I add it to my hot dog during lunch.

    • radix
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      9•2 years ago

      Doesn’t mustard need to be refrigerated?

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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        8•2 years ago

        I don’t think so. You may just need to use it quicker.

      • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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        5•2 years ago

        No, it’s mostly vinegar.

      • @[email protected]
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        13•2 years ago

        Idk. 14 yo me did not take very good care of it and it ended up getting everywhere inside my bag a week in

        • radix
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          2•2 years ago

          Oh no!!!

  • @[email protected]
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    4•2 years ago

    set of screwdriver, a bag of PC screws and a battery operated soldering iron with some solder

    • @[email protected]
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      I also used to carry around soldering equipment last year but it’s because the irons my school has just aren’t usable

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      3•2 years ago

      That sounds pretty normal. Although it depends on what school it is.

      • @[email protected]
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        4•2 years ago

        It was for a year at medical school. :p

      • @[email protected]
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        2•2 years ago

        just your typical bog standard high-school

  • Lettuce eat lettuce
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    8•2 years ago

    Several times I’ve found cash I forgot I stuffed into my bag earlier. Always a pleasant surprise.

    • @[email protected]
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      3•2 years ago

      Do you ever clean your room and find old christmas or birthday cards you never took the money out of?

      • Lettuce eat lettuce
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        Yeah happened a few times lol. Always fun!

  • @[email protected]
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    A built Lego set, specifically the 40567 Forest Hideout.

    It was not unexpected thing for me though, but for everyone else.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni
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    6•2 years ago

    I try to keep it predictable (for a lack of a better word), but probably a supermagnet, like the kind you might get from the insides of an old computer. Helps adjust (or destroy) anything hands cannot.

  • @[email protected]
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    3•2 years ago

    Xtc

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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    I (still) don’t have any friends, so on 1st year of high school I tried to be as interesting as possible. I kept bringing some electronics, but most interesting was fluorescent light bulb and Tesla Coil. OK, OK, it’s not a Tesla Coil but a slayer exciter circuit, but it’s close enough.
    Other stuff I can remember is: USB buck/boost converter (basically a low power variable power supply), USB alligator clips, USB tester, smart load tester (FX-35), battery charge tester, hand crank radio/flashlight combo, low power FM radio transmitter, bootleg NES game console with composite video output, blank DVD, universal TV remote, 5 phones at once and other stuff.
    Although, you could say the most unexpected was the HP PSC 1315 printer. One teacher told me I can take it home, and it fit precisely into my backpack.

    Nowdays, 2 years later, the best you could find is RTL-SDR and the extendable dipole antenna.

    • PrivateNoob
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      4•2 years ago

      Found the top post.

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