This is a story about something that has happened to everyone at some time or another:  saying something embarrassing.  In First Grade Dropout,  a boy accidentally calls his teacher mommy and his classmates howl with laughter.  He’s so embarrassed by it he doesn’t want to return to class the next day.  He thinks of running away, inventing a time machine, disguising himself into someone else, anything to avoid being laughed at.  Even his best friend laughed.  But at the end of the day he meets up with his friend who accidentally says something wrong.  Instead of being embarrassed, well..maybe he was for a second or two…but instead of letting it get him down he just laughed at himself.  And that was the key…everyone does it, it WAS funny, and he learned to laugh it off instead of crippling himself with embarrassment.