I asked my students to give me examples of bookmarks so bad that they would make me (the librarian) cry. Here are the highlights.
A stinky shoe
A chicken nugget
An actual chicken
Pizza
A used tissue
Just sneezing on the page
[The student’s] baby sister
The sneeze was my favorite. When I asked the student how a sneeze would even mark the page, they calmly pointed out that when you closed the book, the boogers would stick the pages together. You’d know which page you were on because it would be one of the ones you had to peel apart to read.
A chicken nugget was literally suggested in every single class I asked for bad bookmark examples. That’s 12 classes. When asked for a bookmark so bad they could make a librarian cry, twelve students individually decided that chicken nugget was the best answer. The sneeze may be my favorite, but collectively, chicken nugget x 12 is definitely the answer that came closest to making me cry (from laughter).
