High schooler gets back at entitled classmate who tries to exclude them from snack day: 'The 12 donuts I've been bringing in... doesn't count?'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
May 12, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

This person is in a delicious dilemma with an unappreciative classmate. 

Growing up, I knew someone who worked at a donut chain. This is an awesome perk for so many reasons: they snagged us free drinks and free donuts constantly. It's hard to overstate just how many free donuts we all got! This person could routinely bring 2 or 3 dozen donuts home just because they felt like it. Sadly, at the end of the day at many bakeries, all the leftover donuts go straight into the garbage bin. We're not just talking like 10 donuts: some places routinely waste dozens of donuts. Instead of donating them, they go straight into a dumpster. So employees can take as many pastries home with them as they want, letting everyone in their life have a few delicious donuts. 

This high schooler was trying to share that wealth with their classmates, but it wasn't really working out, thanks to one classmate who felt it was her job to schedule out the snack days. Who even cares about that? Just enjoy the treats!

Next, read about this overworked IT employee who had to stand up to their boss after they were given "an impossible task." 

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    Back in high school (around 2010) I used to work the closing shift at Dunkin Donuts on Sunday nights. Per company policy, I could box up two dozen donuts to bring home with me before throwing the rest out. One dozen went with my dad to work in the morning, one came with me to school - specifically my Spanish class, which was a pretty small and pretty tight knit group (tends to happen when a lot of course work is practicing conversations with each other).
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    This practice of bringing donuts every Monday sparked an idea in one of my classmates' heads (she's Anne in this story). Since it's so nice to have donuts once a week, we should do a weekly snack day where everyone can bring something in! They decided this would be on Thursday, and I said I'd just continue bringing in donuts every week on Monday as my contribution. Everyone was very OK with this, except for Anne.
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    No, no, no... this snack day was Thursday, and if you aren't going to bring in a snack on a Thursday then you aren't welcome to parcitipate. I was pretty p ed, but what can you do, it's only one snack one time.
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    Then I got to thinking about it. I was only required to bring a snack, not something sweet or delicious or even palatable. As long as it was edible then it counted.
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    My next closing shift I grabbed an extra empty dozen box. I went to the store on Wednesday night and got a five pound bag of potatoes. I washed them and put them right in the box, and dropped off the box early in the morning to my Spanish classroom so nobody would get wise to the actual contents. Apparently the earlier classes had seen the box sitting on a shelf and had told our class that we had donuts.
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    Everyone was excited. I brought them up and put them on top of the Elmo projector, trying my best not to betray the extra heft. They all scurried up excitedly and Anne herself was the one to open the box. A blank expression turned to raw frustration. "You were supposed to bring a snack today!" she protested.
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    "I did!" I said, walking up to the box and grabbing a potato, biting into it while making direct eye contact with her. "You don't have to have any if you don't want." Everyone shuffled back to their desks, and Anne tried desperately to grasp a new argument out of thin air but it was not coming. I finished my potato triumphantly and brought the rest home for my mom after school.
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    Never mess with a teenager!

    The box was checked, and she could not try to exclude me from the weekly snack day anymore. Everyone else in class who thought she was a bit over the top thought the antic was hilarious after they got over the initial disappointment. Edit: the story is real. If you can't fathom a teenager eating a potato raw out of spite then I don't know what to tell you except you should get out more.
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    Lit... Imagine coming up with an idea based almost entirely upon one of your classmates bringing in free donuts every week, and then deciding that their contributions aren't enough.
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    mnordin You could also have let the Sunday donuts simmer a few days and bring them in on Thursday. Nice and crunchy.
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    YourMotherSaysH... I would have just stopped bringing donuts in, full stop.
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    ahorsenamedagro So let me get this straight. She took your generosity, made a new thing out of it. Got people on board. Then gatekeeper'd you from it. Then didn't like it when you played by her rules but not her expectations about something that you started doing out of your own kindness, then made a stink about it? Sigh.
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