This challenge on The Tonight Show was all about the things that made people’s high schools look straight-up weird. Jimmy Fallon kicked off the thread himself by tweeting: “One time a swim meet was canceled at my friend’s high school because the pool ‘caught on fire.’ Still have no idea how that’s possible.”
Yet it seems that the people of Twitter have had it even weirder. Whether it’s mayonnaise bandits or “Dress Code Violator” T-Shirts, some of these stories make us scratch our heads from confusion. But imagine strolling through the halls of your school and finding a small room with a creepy dentist’s chair.
That’s what happened to Riley Smith, a singer and songwriter from Australia. He responded to the challenge: “One time, my friends and I found a locked secret room down the stairs from the bathroom with a dentist chair sitting in the middle of it.” His tweet was picked out from the crowd and aired on the show, with Jimmy Fallon responding to it: “That can’t be real, right?” Well, it seems that it was.
We managed to get in touch with Riley and he was kind enough to have a little chat with us. “It felt amazing to have my tweet read out by Jimmy because I really didn’t expect it,” he told Bored Panda. “When the original hashtag post was made, I put my tweet there thinking that it wouldn’t get picked but there’s always a chance.”
Later on, he watched the show and saw his tweet right there on the screen. “To hear him read my tweet and let alone say my name was amazing. I absolutely freaked out and I now can officially say that I’ve been on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Incredible,” Riley added that he still cannot believe it to this day.
The number of responses this thread received only shows that many have had odd high school experiences. Riley mentioned that one reason for it could be that every school is different and has its own history. “So the students wouldn’t expect something like a dentist chair to be in a room under their bathroom, for example.”
“Personally, I think ‘weird experiences’ and high school go hand in hand with each other and that our high school years are really the glory days of our lives. You never know what’s going to happen in a day at high school,” he continued by saying that days at his school were always like that.
His tweet left people wondering why on earth would a dentist chair be sitting in a hidden and locked place at a high school. While some jokingly wondered whether teachers used it for torture, Riley revealed that he can only guess the real motive behind it. “I really can’t think of any reason why the dentist chair was in that room apart from maybe at some point my high school had some kind of free dentistry service? Unlikely but possible.”
“If the door was unlocked, then my friends and I could’ve got a closer look at the rest of the room but we could only see the chair through the small window in the door.” Unfortunately, it seems that the mystery will remain unsolved. “It’s a shame that the school was renovated and the room is no longer there. Now it’s just a piece of a secret history that only myself, my friends, Jimmy Fallon, and his audience know about,” Riley said.
