When Beans Got Banned!
Next to the playground at my elementary school, there were two or three northern catalpa trees. I didn’t have many friends in elementary school, so sometimes I would sit on the edge of the playground and play with the bean sprouts.
By play with, I mean I would pick them up off the ground and fully peel them apart, putting any actual beans or seeds in my pockets. Then something unexpected happened.
The other children gradually started doing the same thing until eventually there were just recesses where a lot of people would just play with bean sprouts the entire time.
Our elementary school also had strict playground rules: no running on wood chips, no playing the game “wood chips”, no twirling the swings, no climbing on monkey bars, etc.
As more people began playing with the beans, beans would just end up in the school. Like everywhere. On desks? Beans. On the floor? Beans. In baskets? Beans. It became a definite issue, and with beans come bugs. As a result, they banned us from playing with the beans. Story credit: Reddit / Galaxy_love