The classroom was already quiet when the 15-year-old boy slowly walked through the door.<\/p>\n
Everyone turned to look at him.<\/p>\n
His teacher glanced at the clock, then looked back at him with a tired expression.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy are you late again?\u201d<\/strong> she asked.<\/p>\n The boy smiled innocently and stood beside his desk.<\/p>\n \u201cMa\u2019am, I was dreaming I was playing football\u2026 and I scored the winning goal!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n A few students giggled.<\/p>\n The teacher sighed.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s not an excuse for being late. You need to learn to be responsible.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The boy nodded seriously.<\/p>\n \u201cYes, Ma\u2019am. I understand.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The teacher picked up her book and was about to continue the lesson when the boy suddenly grinned.<\/p>\n \u201cBut, Ma\u2019am\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n She looked at him.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The boy shrugged and said,<\/p>\n \u201cYou should\u2019ve seen how many people were watching.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n For a moment, the classroom was completely silent.<\/p>\n Then one student burst out laughing.<\/p>\n Another student covered his face with his hands.<\/p>\n Within seconds, the whole class was laughing\u2014including the teacher, who tried very hard not to smile.<\/p>\n The teacher shook her head and said,<\/p>\n \u201cSit down before you make yourself even later.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The boy quickly sat down.<\/p>\n But as he opened his notebook, his friend leaned over and whispered,<\/p>\n \u201cSo\u2026 did you at least win the game?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The boy smiled proudly.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n His friend asked,<\/p>\n \u201cBy how much?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The boy paused and whispered,<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know. The alarm clock woke me up before the final score.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The entire row started laughing again.<\/p>\n Even the teacher couldn’t hold it in anymore.<\/p>\n Sometimes, being late isn’t because you don’t have an excuse\u2026<\/p>\n Sometimes, you just have a really good dream\u2014and apparently, a whole stadium full of imaginary fans waiting for you. \ud83d\ude02\u26bd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE TEACHER ASKED, \u201cWHY ARE YOU LATE AGAIN?\u201d The classroom was already quiet when the 15-year-old boy slowly walked through the door. Everyone turned to look at him. His teacher … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pha01"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reallifefullstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reallifefullstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reallifefullstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reallifefullstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reallifefullstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reallifefullstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7405,"href":"https:\/\/reallifefullstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions\/7405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reallifefullstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reallifefullstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reallifefullstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reallifefullstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}