Yeah, this didn't happen today, but is one of those traumatic experiences your memory conceals and only reminds you of on rare occasions.
So back in 6th grade math class we're all sitting there with shiny new scientific calculators. I make the discovery that, with a little work, a few letters could be typed on the calculators to help form words (a revolutionary step forward from writing 'BOOBIES' upside-down), and begin to show my friends. The very first, pioneering sentence constructed using the select letters available was 'Y0r-M0M-15-DeAD'. Weird, I know, but my young brain was too excited with new opportunities this would bring to liven up a boring class, and I didn't think the first sentence had to be anything particularly inspiring.
Here's where the FU commences.
My friends are all equally amazed by this new innovation, some of them finding this new medium hilarious. So much so that this girl I hadn't ever spoken to before turned around and asked what was happening. I, confidently, with a wide smirk on my face, simply turn the calculator round and show off the sentence I had created. She immediately turns back around, entirely unimpressed, before leaving the room in tears moments later.
Turns out her mom had died two years previously; the school had told people that we were to be sensitive around her, but I hadn't got the memo. Don't think she ever truly forgave me.
TL;DR the first impression I gave a girl in my class me was of me using a calculator to mock her for her parent's death
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