HOW MAN THONGS GOT ME INTO THE HIGH SCHOOL HONORS PROGRAM _ MY MOST EMBARRASSING STORIES

**The World’s Worst Invention: A Hilarious Misstep That Changed My Life**

*Introduction: Navigating Coronavirus Chaos*

Good morning, everyone! Welcome back to my channel. I know things have been pretty dark and apocalyptic in the news lately, so I wanted to take this video to lighten your spirits and offer a little distraction. While there’s no shortage of serious topics to discuss, today I’m going to share some of the most ridiculous and funny things I’ve done over the years. But before we dive into that, let’s address the elephant in the room—coronavirus.

I’m so torn about this whole situation. On one hand, it feels like an enormous deal—I might be on the verge of death or panic-induced insanity. On the other hand, I’m looking at the stats from past events like the swine flu and reading articles that suggest the media might be blowing this up way out of proportion. I don’t want to overreact, but I also can’t ignore it completely because, let’s face it, cities, countries, and entire industries are shutting down. It’s a big deal.

Speaking of which, have you noticed how everyone is hoarding toilet paper and water? Yeah, that’s the obvious stuff. But what caught me off guard was seeing empty shelves for butter and chocolate chips. And don’t even get me started on the lack of toothpaste—I guess we’re all stress-eating but still concerned about cavities at the same time.

*The Story Behind the World’s Worst Invention*

Now, let’s shift gears and take a trip back to eighth grade. This story comes from a time when everyone was applying for high school. To get into the Gate Program (a gifted program), you needed good grades, recommendations, and, of course, an essay. It was almost like taking a mini-SAT.

There were two high schools in my area: McClatchy, my home school, and Kenny, where all my friends were going. My mom was trying to decide which one I should attend, but deep down, I had my heart set on both. So, I applied to both schools.

One of the essay questions stuck with me: “What is the world’s worst invention and why?” People wrote about war, bombs, homelessness, hatred, and drugs—logical, reasonable choices, for sure. But then there was little old me. Let’s just say my response took a very different turn.

*The Traumatic Beach Incident*

It all started during the summer before eighth grade. One of my closest friends was from Brazil, and my parents let me visit her there. We were at the beach when I got pulled under a wave—not deep enough to drown, but close enough to scare me half to death. I panicked, flailed, and just as I thought I was about to drown, a guy came to my rescue.

He pulled me up onto the sand and started speaking to me in Portuguese. From what I could gather (since I don’t speak the language), he was asking if I was okay and whether anyone was with me. But all I could focus on were his speedo and man thongs. The images of that moment have stayed with me ever since.

*The Essay That Shocked Everyone*

Fast forward to a year later when it came time to write that essay about the world’s worst invention. Without hesitation, my mind went back to that traumatic beach incident. I wrote page after page explaining why man thongs were not just bad but downright horrific. My essay argued that they were so ridiculous and invasive that they should be illegal.

I felt confident about my choice. After all, how could something as absurd as a speedo or man thong cause more harm than actual bombs or drugs? It was logical in my mind—or at least I thought it was.

*The Unintended Reactions*

After submitting my essay, the teachers and volunteers who graded them started talking about “the person who wrote about man thongs.” No names were attached, but everyone knew it was me. My mom turned bright red when she realized what I’d done. She confronted me the next day, embarrassed beyond belief.

But here’s the kicker: despite my unconventional choice, I got into both schools! Apparently, my essay was creative, unique, and well-written enough to make an impression. However, my parents were less than thrilled about the attention it brought. They had to choose which school I’d attend because they couldn’t face the embarrassment of having their child in the Gate Program who wrote about man thongs.

*Conclusion: Turning Embarrassment into Opportunity*

Looking back, that essay was one of many times I’ve embarrassed my parents with my antics. But despite the awkwardness, it all worked out in the end. I got into both schools and ended up attending the ones I truly wanted to go to—thanks, in part, to a very unexpected and sincere essay about the world’s worst invention.

So, there you have it—a story of panic buying, eighth-grade essays, and the lengths we go to make an impression (or maybe just entertain ourselves). Whether you’re quarantining at home or still braving the daily grind, I hope this little anecdote brought a smile to your face.

If you enjoyed this video, don’t forget to hit that subscribe button for more laugh-filled content. And until next time, stay safe and dry—those waves might be calling your name sooner than you think!

Thank you so much for watching, and I’ll see you in the next video!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engood morning everyone welcome back to my channel so I know everything has been in pretty dark and basically apocalyptic in the news so I wanted to just take this video to just lighten spirits offer a little distraction so basically I'm going to be covering today some of the most ridiculous and funny things that I have done but before we get into that just have to address the elephant in the room this coronavirus oh my gosh I'm so torn part of me feels like this is an enormous deal I need to panic I'm about to die the other part of me is looking at the stats of the swine flu and also hearing all those art or reading those articles that are basically saying the media is blowing this up and it's super out of proportion so I don't want to I don't want to feel like I'm overreacting but I also don't want to like just ignore this because it clearly is a big deal I mean cities countries entire giant industries everything is shutting down then I went to the grocery store first off the water and toilet paper we need a comment down but that was the obvious what I didn't expect is apparently everyone is hoarding butter and then also I don't know but your guys's stores but we are out of chocolate chips and toothpaste okay so what we we are stress eating but we're also concerned about cavities at the same time okay so into my stories this story is from eighth grade so it was when everyone was applying for high school so I'm not things work for your high school but in order to be in the gate program in high school you had like some in application your grades I think you would large recommendation and then you had to go in and write like a test prompt almost like almost like SATs and stuff right there were two high schools in my area one that I was called McClatchy and that was technically my home school and then there was another one called Kenny which I had to open and roll to go to because it was not in my area however that's where all my friends were going so my sister went to McClatchy so my mom was like okay well this is one let's close your a house your story goes here you will just go there it makes sense and I was like no mom so excited okay well for colleges one of the most important themes for us is we want you to be in the gate program if you give it your all get into both then we can discuss choosing so I had applied for both so for our homeschool f8a comes so I don't remember all of the essay questions but I remember one of them it was what is the world's worst invention and why so what do you think people but there were like war bombs homelessness hatred drugs all very very logical reasonable things I don't know that they're all inventions necessarily but I see where they were going with this so uh what is little old me write about Oh golly gee willikers glad you asked so I wrote about the world's worst invention being man thongs yes yes man thongs and speedos Spyro Massa so let me just let me just tell you where I was coming from okay or it's coming from so basically summer before this gal that was one of my absolute best friends was from Brazil right and my parents let me go to Brazil with her so we were on the beach one day and basically I had gotten pulled kind of under a wave still by the shore I wasn't like deep out or anything but I kind of like somehow fell and then got stuck under there and then like panicking and just like ah and I was basically going to drown myself um and this guy came and saw me and just like pulled me up and like laid me on the sand keep in mind it's only like maybe two yards away but I was panicking and he saw that similarly he like brought me up and he's like standing over me and just like the speaking in Portuguese obviously but I'm assuming but asking you know are you okay are you all right is anyone here with you all assumption but he sounded concerned and was talking to me so probably something like that and I like look up and it's like aw like right and stuff and all I see is just like speedo just speedo you know and it was traumatizing it was probably more traumatizing than getting tossed under the waves so yeah I mean obviously very happy save me but it would ya well but not the images you want you know and it's not with me it's not with me no obviously it stuck with me because when it came time write this essay like a year later um a first thing that came to mind when I was thinking what is the world's worst invention boom this guys crotch first thing that comes to mind so I was like I remember reading that and just first thing man thong man though yes yes that's it not a second thought I did not think you know drugs or bombs no no didn't even cross my mind anyway I didn't even consider anything else cuz I was so confident I was so confident not answer and I wrote my entire essay which I'm pretty sure was like two or three pages or something just on why man thongs are the world's worst invention and should be illegal so yeah yeah so then so then we essays you know we were ready to go home and want picks me up just you know how to go did you do you feel like you did well and I was like you know what I'm feeling pretty confident about it I actually think I did pretty good and so I'm just like yes that's my girl just my girl right we probably went out to dinner or celebrated something like that so then my mom sees these these other people who were the I don't know mom's teachers volunteers whoever it is that we've run the whole application process for the gate program and do all of the essay readings and grading nothing's like that talk of the town was the person who wrote about man thongs and keep in mind the essay is have no names so they don't know who wrote this so Lily anonymous at this point and so I start talking about like the man thongs and like how traumatizing it is and like how hilarious it was this person that it was so sincere but I guess it was so well written and um I guess my points were so well received I guess you would say that I guess there's just really memorable and I feel I think only like one or two people read it I guess over like half a dozen people read it because they were like wait what I have to read this essay and so they were talking about it my mom and my mom I mean she turned like bright red and like how to like excused herself and just like knew it was mine because I mean who else was this ridiculous and unnecessary right so she just knew it was me and then she confronted me about it like that day or the next day and I didn't know what to say because I thought you know they were well first off it I thought it was a really good idea but also I didn't realize we were gonna talk about it and then my mom was gonna find out and then you know looking back it was kind of embarrassing like oh well maybe I should have wrote out something else my mom's like you know what everyone else wrote about almost it for drugs Bob things that are actually a big deal oh she's pretty upset I think she was she was mostly upset because she was just like so embarrassed so embarrassed I felt really bad you know or the people over the course of my life I really I really embarrassed her many times many many times oh this is this for my favorites uh yeah moral the story though uh-huh from everyone who read it everyone voted that I was creative unique well written and I got in I got it my parents were so embarrassed that way I ended up getting into both of them they were like you know what we're and I'm gonna fight you on this you go to the other school cuz I can't face this this is just it's too embarrassing I can't pay and that is the story of how I got into two gate programs and got to go to the ones that I actually wanted to do because I may as we sabotage that one on accident whoops alright guys so that is all I have for you today I hope that this has added a little comic relief to your life and now we can all go out and continue our daily panics hopefully in quarantine unless you are unfortunate like me and are still having to do to work even though everything zinc said yes hopefully that's not you but if you are my heart goes out to you because it sucks it's pretty scary and I would rather be home making funny videos so thank you again so much for watching I will see you next week and don't get you haven't already do hit that subscribe button I will see you and waitgood morning everyone welcome back to my channel so I know everything has been in pretty dark and basically apocalyptic in the news so I wanted to just take this video to just lighten spirits offer a little distraction so basically I'm going to be covering today some of the most ridiculous and funny things that I have done but before we get into that just have to address the elephant in the room this coronavirus oh my gosh I'm so torn part of me feels like this is an enormous deal I need to panic I'm about to die the other part of me is looking at the stats of the swine flu and also hearing all those art or reading those articles that are basically saying the media is blowing this up and it's super out of proportion so I don't want to I don't want to feel like I'm overreacting but I also don't want to like just ignore this because it clearly is a big deal I mean cities countries entire giant industries everything is shutting down then I went to the grocery store first off the water and toilet paper we need a comment down but that was the obvious what I didn't expect is apparently everyone is hoarding butter and then also I don't know but your guys's stores but we are out of chocolate chips and toothpaste okay so what we we are stress eating but we're also concerned about cavities at the same time okay so into my stories this story is from eighth grade so it was when everyone was applying for high school so I'm not things work for your high school but in order to be in the gate program in high school you had like some in application your grades I think you would large recommendation and then you had to go in and write like a test prompt almost like almost like SATs and stuff right there were two high schools in my area one that I was called McClatchy and that was technically my home school and then there was another one called Kenny which I had to open and roll to go to because it was not in my area however that's where all my friends were going so my sister went to McClatchy so my mom was like okay well this is one let's close your a house your story goes here you will just go there it makes sense and I was like no mom so excited okay well for colleges one of the most important themes for us is we want you to be in the gate program if you give it your all get into both then we can discuss choosing so I had applied for both so for our homeschool f8a comes so I don't remember all of the essay questions but I remember one of them it was what is the world's worst invention and why so what do you think people but there were like war bombs homelessness hatred drugs all very very logical reasonable things I don't know that they're all inventions necessarily but I see where they were going with this so uh what is little old me write about Oh golly gee willikers glad you asked so I wrote about the world's worst invention being man thongs yes yes man thongs and speedos Spyro Massa so let me just let me just tell you where I was coming from okay or it's coming from so basically summer before this gal that was one of my absolute best friends was from Brazil right and my parents let me go to Brazil with her so we were on the beach one day and basically I had gotten pulled kind of under a wave still by the shore I wasn't like deep out or anything but I kind of like somehow fell and then got stuck under there and then like panicking and just like ah and I was basically going to drown myself um and this guy came and saw me and just like pulled me up and like laid me on the sand keep in mind it's only like maybe two yards away but I was panicking and he saw that similarly he like brought me up and he's like standing over me and just like the speaking in Portuguese obviously but I'm assuming but asking you know are you okay are you all right is anyone here with you all assumption but he sounded concerned and was talking to me so probably something like that and I like look up and it's like aw like right and stuff and all I see is just like speedo just speedo you know and it was traumatizing it was probably more traumatizing than getting tossed under the waves so yeah I mean obviously very happy save me but it would ya well but not the images you want you know and it's not with me it's not with me no obviously it stuck with me because when it came time write this essay like a year later um a first thing that came to mind when I was thinking what is the world's worst invention boom this guys crotch first thing that comes to mind so I was like I remember reading that and just first thing man thong man though yes yes that's it not a second thought I did not think you know drugs or bombs no no didn't even cross my mind anyway I didn't even consider anything else cuz I was so confident I was so confident not answer and I wrote my entire essay which I'm pretty sure was like two or three pages or something just on why man thongs are the world's worst invention and should be illegal so yeah yeah so then so then we essays you know we were ready to go home and want picks me up just you know how to go did you do you feel like you did well and I was like you know what I'm feeling pretty confident about it I actually think I did pretty good and so I'm just like yes that's my girl just my girl right we probably went out to dinner or celebrated something like that so then my mom sees these these other people who were the I don't know mom's teachers volunteers whoever it is that we've run the whole application process for the gate program and do all of the essay readings and grading nothing's like that talk of the town was the person who wrote about man thongs and keep in mind the essay is have no names so they don't know who wrote this so Lily anonymous at this point and so I start talking about like the man thongs and like how traumatizing it is and like how hilarious it was this person that it was so sincere but I guess it was so well written and um I guess my points were so well received I guess you would say that I guess there's just really memorable and I feel I think only like one or two people read it I guess over like half a dozen people read it because they were like wait what I have to read this essay and so they were talking about it my mom and my mom I mean she turned like bright red and like how to like excused herself and just like knew it was mine because I mean who else was this ridiculous and unnecessary right so she just knew it was me and then she confronted me about it like that day or the next day and I didn't know what to say because I thought you know they were well first off it I thought it was a really good idea but also I didn't realize we were gonna talk about it and then my mom was gonna find out and then you know looking back it was kind of embarrassing like oh well maybe I should have wrote out something else my mom's like you know what everyone else wrote about almost it for drugs Bob things that are actually a big deal oh she's pretty upset I think she was she was mostly upset because she was just like so embarrassed so embarrassed I felt really bad you know or the people over the course of my life I really I really embarrassed her many times many many times oh this is this for my favorites uh yeah moral the story though uh-huh from everyone who read it everyone voted that I was creative unique well written and I got in I got it my parents were so embarrassed that way I ended up getting into both of them they were like you know what we're and I'm gonna fight you on this you go to the other school cuz I can't face this this is just it's too embarrassing I can't pay and that is the story of how I got into two gate programs and got to go to the ones that I actually wanted to do because I may as we sabotage that one on accident whoops alright guys so that is all I have for you today I hope that this has added a little comic relief to your life and now we can all go out and continue our daily panics hopefully in quarantine unless you are unfortunate like me and are still having to do to work even though everything zinc said yes hopefully that's not you but if you are my heart goes out to you because it sucks it's pretty scary and I would rather be home making funny videos so thank you again so much for watching I will see you next week and don't get you haven't already do hit that subscribe button I will see you and wait\n"