Originally Posted By: Hydra
When I was a child my teacher called me supercilious. I heard, "super-silliest" and was more insulted than I should have been. Then again, my superciliousness was super-silly.

A friend of ours when her daughter was at school instructed her to tell her teacher in explanation of certain absences that her hypochondria had been acting up again. It wasn't until some years later that her daughter got the joke and was retrospectively mortified with embarrassment.