So at my junior high, I sit at a desk with TONS of English textbooks. Only the Sunshine textbooks are used for actual class, but as I've found myself with some extra time on my hands after writing, studying Japanese, and planning elementary school lessons, I've often turned to them for amusement. And what I've found: there's some pretty hilarious stuff in there! It's actually turned into a bit of culture study in some places as an interesting look into how the Japanese view and portray English.
The current textbooks in use in junior high schools are called Sunshine, aimed mostly at recitation of short dialogue. There are actually some really sad stories in there though! For instance the second year book has a whole 3 party story about starving elephants to death in zoos during the war, another talks about the plight of pets during the bombings, and the previous textbook New Horizon has a story about two children dying in the Hiroshima bombings. Sheesh. Speech contest here I come, right? Shudder...
Anyway, steering clear of that for now, let's get to the good stuff!
Sometimes it happens....There's a hair in my ramen. I once had a kid spot a tiny hair in his bowl of ramen during lunch and he complained to the teacher about it. She took one look, discarded the perfectly good bowl of soup, and got him a brand new one. It was probably his own hair anyway.