Unfortunate Events, Competitions

I was at school and it was lunchtime, so naturally my friends and I went to play outside on the grass because it was summer. We were playing rounders and I was at fourth base and as I tried to catch this girl out I fell over trying to catch the ball and I landed on my side in a pile of what I later found to be dog poo! I had to go to the medical room to get it cleaned up but it left a stinky stain on my uniform so I had to go home and my now my whole school remembers me as the girl who fell in to a pile of poo.

Lily Drago

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Every month we're running a competition to find the most terrible, horrifying and downright dismal thing that has happened to an Unfortunate out there.

It can be anything you like (whether it happened at home, at school, at your evil cousins house...) but unfortunateevents.com would like you to share it.

If yours is the best not only will it be published in the gallery, but you'll also receive a spangly new prize. Don't worry too much; the prize will be most unfortunate in its nature.

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