The article discusses the author's experience in a spelling bee competition during his elementary year in a Tennessee school in 1963. He narrates the competition he went through during his sixth grade in elementary. He emphasizes that his failure of spelling the word onomatopoeia leads him to be more nerd in the eyes of his classmates. He adds that such failure drives him in taking a legal profession. To regain this lost confidence, he organized a spelling competition for his colleagues.