Suspended for Hanging Out

The humor comes from the double meaning of "hang out." Emo culture is often associated with themes of sadness and death, so the phrase could be interpreted as a dark joke about hanging oneself rather than spending time together. The person telling the joke is then "punished" for this dark interpretation of the phrase.

• Suspension
• Kid
• Emo
• School
• Punishment
• Misunderstanding

• I got a detention because I told an emo kid to "hang in there."
• I got detention one day. I don’t know why; I only slapped the emo kid on the wrist.
• I got detention yesterday because I called the group of emo kids the suicide squad.
• I asked a emo kid if they wanna hang out.