Embarrassing moments of the past

One of the greatest things about living with your best friend is that you're able to recall all sorts of memories from your past that you haven't thought of in years. An old memory came to mind last night, that had both of us cracking up... I guess years later you really do "look back and laugh at this"

First a little background:
Did any of you ever have to grade a classmate's homework in school? I felt like this happened a lot in my middle school.  Looking back, its actually pretty clever. The teacher doesn't have to grade all of the assignments at home, plus the teacher has the opportunity to go over the homework with the class at the same time. The rules to this are pretty simple.
1) Your homework is passed to either the left or the right, so that no one is grading their own work.
2) If your classmate got the answer right, then you give them a check mark.
3) If the answer does not match what the teacher says, then you mark it wrong.
4) If you are unsure, then you ask for guidance.
I think its this last rule that needs abolishing.

I was in 6th grade English class. Our assignment was to define common words in common everyday language ( I am still not sure what the point of this assignment was...) So if the term was laughing, someone might write "to make a joyful noise". Understand? Here's what happened:

I have always been one who likes to get things done quickly. I finished this assignment, arguably a little too quickly, without any (foreseen) problems.  I pass my paper to the right, as instructed, for my neighbor to grade. The first word on the sheet is applause. The teacher says to give credit to your neighbor if they wrote anything along the lines of making noise with ones hands. Well you see, I read the word too fast... I thought it said applesauce.... So the person grading my paper, forgets rule number 3 and evidently needs clarification that my response of "the baking and mashing of apples" is indeed an incorrect definition of applause. I believe the teacher would have scolded him for asking such a dumb question, if he hadn't been doubled over laughing with everyone else. I think my face remained red the rest of the year.