Grossest thing ever

This is a topic that recently came up on another blog that I read, and it's a journal topic that I invite my students to write about each year. Children love to write about disgusting and inappropriate things. As do I.

I have a great many contenders for grossest thing ever

I once saw the backfire from the bus blow a hole the size of a grapefruit in the leg of 14-year old Keith Salome, who had been leaning against the exhaust pipe.

I saw my own femur and kneecap exposed to the world as I...