<human>: Summarize the given text in a few sentences.

So, as usual, this happened about four years ago, back when I was a freshman in high school. In health class, we had an assignment (which now that I think of it was actually pointless) where we had to write 3 of our wishes for later in life, and the teacher would somehow "grant them to us", which obviously didn't happen..

Anyways, I was pretty dumb back in the day and would do anything to try to be funny. I had health class right before lunch and that's usually all I thought about. For one of my wishes, I wrote, "I wish that I get to eat lunch today." For some odd reason, the class didn't give me the reaction I expected. Instead of the class bursting into laughter, everyone just looked at me. 

I ignored it until about 2 days later when several people who I'd never talked to before came up to me and offered to sit with me at lunch, even though I had many friends. Many people offered their condolences and wished things would go better for me. News spread fast and even teachers felt bad for my "financial issue".

At that point, it was too late to tell anyone it was a joke, so I just went with it for the rest of the year. By the time I was in my sophomore year, most people had forgotten about it, but boy was freshman year awkward..
<bot>: Told everyone in my health class that I wished to eat lunch that day, everyone thought my family couldn't afford food.