I was in 5th grade.

I live on the west coast so it was all finished by the time school started.

At line-up in the yard before school I noticed all the teachers were talking and some were visibly upset. I asked a kid what happened.

He said, "A teacher blew up!" To a fifth grader that's a funny joke. Obviously teachers don't just blow up. I cracked up laughing and said, "She BLEW ALL THE WAY UP?"

Half a dozen teachers turned to stare at me and my teacher grabbed my arm and told me how unfunny that was. I got detention. This teacher never got mad and never touched a kid but she was hurting then and this really sent her to the stratosphere.

That's how I remember that day.