I am horrifying afraid of failing and when I do it is a huge dilemma. I once tried to do a presentation in front of the whole class of about 27 people and got so tongue tied that I had to walk out of the room. I stayed out there for the rest of class.
I'm a math teacher, and since I used to hate this subject, I give my students all As and Bs even though they deserve to fail.
My ex boyfriend broke up with me, and the next day he came to my house to talk to me. I thought that he was going to say that he wanted me back, so I ran to him and kissed him. When I pulled away, he said "so, we wanna be friends". #awkward #fail
Last year, I had a senior student who was a douche bag jock. He constantly disrupted the class and was failing. In order to play in Friday's game he needed to retake quizzes (which I don't allow). I offered him a chance to retake them, if he let me punch him in the stomach. It felt great, and he never missed a single class again. He passed with a B. He was much smarter than he was pretending to be
After spending 10.000$ in treatment for my dog's cancer for the past months, he died of kidney failure.