Stacy Rowe stared at the top three lines of the history test that Mr. DeMartino had graded and handed back, beginning to hyperventilate. The first line of the test, written in the angry red ink favored by teachers everywhere, read "SEE ME AFTER CLASS." The second line, the first question of the test, asked, "Who was Adolf Hitler?"

And Stacy had written the third line. She had told herself repeatedly both before and during the test to NOT write what she had written, but she had apparently done so anyway. She didn't even remember writing it! Now Mr. DeMartino would yell at her, Ms. Li might expel her, her parents would never talk to her again...

All because Stacy, in a romantic daydream, had written "The sexiest man who ever lived," complete with little hearts over the Is. And, of course, she had filled the margins with drivel like "Mr. and Mrs. Hitler", "Mrs. Adolf Hitler", "Stacy Hitler" and the like.

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Two different sources inspired this:

1. A scene from 'Dick', in which one of the protagonists (a teenage girl) fantasizes about her romance with Richard M. Nixon.

2. The most off-putting dating profile I ever saw firsthand, a woman who openly admired Adolf Hitler (but found Ted Bundy to be sexier).