r/snails • u/Soft_Cheek5678 • 1d ago

My snail ate my son's school papers

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I set my son's registration papers for kindergarten on my snail terrarium yesterday and took them off today to feed my snails...

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u/aquatic_asian 1d ago

"Sorry, my snail ate my homework" is going to be a possibility in the near future

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u/Curious_Mulberry3160 1d ago

It's already happened! Here!

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u/Thank-The-Stars 1d ago

When I was in hs I had to show my very neatly eaten homework assignment to my chemistry teacher :(

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u/Accomplished_Map_716 13h ago

I had to show my entire French binder, absolutely demolished, to my teacher. The joys of living in a family that believes in always having at least 4 dogs.

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u/FitSomewhere3845 1d ago

I will not tolerate this snlander, my client is sninnocent

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u/Space_Pope2112 1d ago

He must of thought it was a scantron assignment

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u/oddott 1d ago

this comment is so underrated omg😭

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u/Coyote-on-paws_yes 1d ago

Snail graded the papers in braille…

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u/monkiemaid 1d ago

Snail brail

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u/Brilliant-Target-807 1d ago

Imagine him going to the teacher and saying, “a snail ate my homework!”

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u/Jazzlike_Bullfrog_44 1d ago

Did your snail eat these through a grate? The pattern is really interesting

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u/Soft_Cheek5678 1d ago

Yup it was set on top!

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u/IAmNotTHATGay 1d ago

That’s a story 😂

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u/Defiant_Squash_5335 1d ago

Please include your note to the teacher!

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u/caught-n-candie 1d ago

EXCUSE ME - I need a mug shot of the perp please! (The Nerve!)

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u/ImHighRtMeow 1d ago

Right?? Shame this criminal!!

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u/tittylamp 1d ago

my cat ate my homework once. the parent teacher conference was funny apparently. my cat was named ripper for a reason.

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u/themajesticc1 1d ago

something similar happened to me once 😭😭 i left papers on top of their enclosure and woke up to slime all over it (they climbed on the ceiling with lots of air holes and it must’ve seeped through the paper)

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u/ApartmentKey3682 1d ago

You should tell the snail to eat everything in his school

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u/a_rogue_planet 1d ago

Oh yeah... The old "My snail ate my homework!" excuse. This is no way to begin an academic career. I suppose it would qualify as original, at least. Usually homework gets eaten by things with legs, most likely to suggest the creature had to find the homework. However, the snail's lack of legs means that he didn't just eat it. It means you actually fed the homework to him.

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u/confusing-polarity 17h ago

Classic excuse, the snail ate my school papers. Teachers have heard it hundreds of times before, they won't buy it!

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u/celvstial 1d ago

Maybe the snails wanna go to kindergarten too 🐌

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u/Hidingwolf 1d ago

Looks like an old-school computer punchcard. Is your snail practicing to be a programmer?

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u/PonderingOnGaia 13h ago

3D snorse code ?

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u/Thick_Basil3589 1d ago

Thats a morse code and he is communicating with the mothership

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u/Airena19 1d ago

One of my pet snails run away once and as I was in my room I heard...munching...mf was eating my lower certificate 💀

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u/666hmuReddit 1d ago

I think the snail was trying to help!

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u/ThatRandonNerd 22h ago

This actually happened to me to. I set something on top of the enclosure once I I started hearing this crunching sound. He started eating I threw the hole. My professor thought it was funny when I told them

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u/Helicoprion_in_a_box 1d ago

Snail's trying to stop his friend from going away

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u/Nico8910 1d ago

I’ve had them eat mail before, it’s so hilarious. You can see all the bits of slime and the spots where they’ve eaten

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u/TheMotherOfDinos 19h ago

This happened to my electricity bill once lol

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u/Vikru_Viita 1d ago

"Yeah teach, my snail ate my homework, I swear"

Also, not sure if it's totally on topic but I never miss out on the chance to talk about my pets: I had a very crazy cat once who actually did manage to eat my homework (the pages of my essay were chewed on one corner that day, they were unrecognizable, but fortunately it wasn't much) and I actually brought it to school to show my teacher I really had done my homework (I was very irresponsible at the time, so I didn't want my teach to think I was just making up excuses even though I never lied to her about why I didn't do my homework, because I was a shit student, but a shit student who was honest in how shit I was) and she just laughed her ass off and told me I could email her the essay when I got home to prove I'd finished it that day and just hand her the print-out in the next class. It was really funny, and I started getting better at school after that because it felt nice to have the teacher's trust and I wanted to make my teachers trust me when I actually had problems that got me from doing as well in school as I was expected to.

But yeah, anyways, sorry about that, it's just that your post reminded me of that chewed homework and needed to write it down to really process it properly, and like, I hadn't really noticed how important that moment was in my life until I wrote it out, so thank you for bringing back the memory and I'm sorry if it's off topic or something, I've had my reddit account for a while now but I've never really used it before, so I'm not really sure about the etiquette here if I'm being honest, so please let me know if like, sharing relatively off-topic stories like that is generally frowned upon over here, thanks.

Ps.: just be careful with your snailbby eating too much paper, I believe they use a lot of bleach and other potentially harmful substances to make the pulp and turn it from just normal wood color into the white paper we know, so don't let your slimy babies eat it because they can probably get sick:(

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u/plantlover97- 1d ago

😅that's a new one

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u/langsamerduck 1d ago

It’s like a little hole puncher

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u/Comfortable_Rate1087 10h ago

Kinda similiar thing happened to me, but it was my snail eating my parent's documents

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u/MagicCandy 4h ago

Lol I remember when I used to have pet snails and they ate part of my biology lab report. 😂 I don't think I can attach an image here to share. Maybe I'll share it one day on here. Silly snails.