High School Meme
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cairistiona7:
1. Did you know your spouse?
No, we didn't meet until our senior year in college.
2. Did you car pool to school?
No; rode the bus.
3. What kind of car did you have?
I didn't even have a car. And I couldn't drive my mom's car; it was a standard shift, and we had automatic transmission in driver's ed. I never had my own car until after I got married. (After I graduated HS, my mom did trade in her standard shift Chevy station wagon on an automatic, so I did finally get to drive.)
4. What kind of car do you have now?
I have a raspberry blue 2012 Honda Fit, which I like more than any car I've ever had.
5. It's Friday night...where were you?
Hmm...usually at my house or one of my friends'; we had frequent slumber parties. There were my two best friends, and a couple of other girls who hung out once in a while; we were all members of the local chapter of the Monkees Fan Club. Or if one of their boyfriends were available to drive, we might go to a cheap movie at the nearby Air Force Base, where the movies only cost a quarter. (About half of us were Air Force brats, and we could each take a guest.) We'd pool our funds for everything; it usually came to under $5, and after paying our admission to the movie and getting one large drink for all of us to share (good thing none of us had mono) we'd give the leftover change to whichever boyfriend drove, to put in the gas tank. And yeah, $1.64 could actually make a dent back then--gas was about .35 a gallon.
6. What kind of job did you have in high school?
Mostly babysitting.
7. What kind of job do you have now?
Mostly retired, but work a shift a week in a retail market.
8. Were you a party animal ?
Maybe, if you count slumber parties.
9. Were you a cheerleader?
Good grief, no!
10. Were you considered a jock?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!! *wipes eyes* Let us just say I was always picked last in PE.
(Unless you consider debate a sport.)
11. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
Not in High School. I was in choir in grade school.
[OK, number 12 seems to be missing]
13. Did you get suspended or expelled?
Never. I was always terrified that I would, so I always followed the rules. I didn't even skip school on senior skip day. Imagine Hermione at her most paranoid. ("Or worse, expelled!") Actually, I was a lot like Hermione, only not as cool.
14. Can you sing the fight song?
Not anymore. I did know it at the time.
15. Who was/were your favorite high school teacher?
Mr. Sirius (yes, like in Harry Potter; but it was his last name, not his first, and this was decades before HP) who taught Social Studies and was the coach for our Debate Team.
16. Where did you sit for lunch?
Anywhere I wanted, but always by myself, with the company of a book. (My best friends were two grades below me, and we never had lunch at the same time.)
17. What was your school's full name?
Rutherford High School
18. What was your school mascot?
A ram. We actually HAD a ram; his name was Ramsey and he lived on a farm outside of town with one of the football player's grandparents. One year our cross-town rivals kidnapped him before our big football game, and it turned into a big deal, because they had hurt him some when they took him; he ended up OK, but they made the team so mad with that stunt that we skunked them at the game, 21-0. I'm glad that nowadays they don't use real animals as mascots.
19. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
I don't know; the temptation to be able to read The Hobbit and LotR again for the first time would be cool. But overall, it wasn't my happiest time of life. Youth is wasted on the young.
20. Did you have fun at Prom?
Didn't go to the prom or any school dances.
21. Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with?
*points up at #20*
22. Are you planning on going to your next reunion?
No, never been to one; no desire to. Most of my friends were slightly below me, so they weren't in my class.
23. Are you still in contact with people from school?
Yes, my two best friends at the time, but it's mostly just FB posts or emails at the holidays.
24. What are/were your school's colors?
Black and gold
cairistiona7:1. Did you know your spouse?
No, we didn't meet until our senior year in college.
2. Did you car pool to school?
No; rode the bus.
3. What kind of car did you have?
I didn't even have a car. And I couldn't drive my mom's car; it was a standard shift, and we had automatic transmission in driver's ed. I never had my own car until after I got married. (After I graduated HS, my mom did trade in her standard shift Chevy station wagon on an automatic, so I did finally get to drive.)
4. What kind of car do you have now?
I have a raspberry blue 2012 Honda Fit, which I like more than any car I've ever had.
5. It's Friday night...where were you?
Hmm...usually at my house or one of my friends'; we had frequent slumber parties. There were my two best friends, and a couple of other girls who hung out once in a while; we were all members of the local chapter of the Monkees Fan Club. Or if one of their boyfriends were available to drive, we might go to a cheap movie at the nearby Air Force Base, where the movies only cost a quarter. (About half of us were Air Force brats, and we could each take a guest.) We'd pool our funds for everything; it usually came to under $5, and after paying our admission to the movie and getting one large drink for all of us to share (good thing none of us had mono) we'd give the leftover change to whichever boyfriend drove, to put in the gas tank. And yeah, $1.64 could actually make a dent back then--gas was about .35 a gallon.
6. What kind of job did you have in high school?
Mostly babysitting.
7. What kind of job do you have now?
Mostly retired, but work a shift a week in a retail market.
8. Were you a party animal ?
Maybe, if you count slumber parties.
9. Were you a cheerleader?
Good grief, no!
10. Were you considered a jock?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!! *wipes eyes* Let us just say I was always picked last in PE.
(Unless you consider debate a sport.)
11. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
Not in High School. I was in choir in grade school.
[OK, number 12 seems to be missing]
13. Did you get suspended or expelled?
Never. I was always terrified that I would, so I always followed the rules. I didn't even skip school on senior skip day. Imagine Hermione at her most paranoid. ("Or worse, expelled!") Actually, I was a lot like Hermione, only not as cool.
14. Can you sing the fight song?
Not anymore. I did know it at the time.
15. Who was/were your favorite high school teacher?
Mr. Sirius (yes, like in Harry Potter; but it was his last name, not his first, and this was decades before HP) who taught Social Studies and was the coach for our Debate Team.
16. Where did you sit for lunch?
Anywhere I wanted, but always by myself, with the company of a book. (My best friends were two grades below me, and we never had lunch at the same time.)
17. What was your school's full name?
Rutherford High School
18. What was your school mascot?
A ram. We actually HAD a ram; his name was Ramsey and he lived on a farm outside of town with one of the football player's grandparents. One year our cross-town rivals kidnapped him before our big football game, and it turned into a big deal, because they had hurt him some when they took him; he ended up OK, but they made the team so mad with that stunt that we skunked them at the game, 21-0. I'm glad that nowadays they don't use real animals as mascots.
19. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
I don't know; the temptation to be able to read The Hobbit and LotR again for the first time would be cool. But overall, it wasn't my happiest time of life. Youth is wasted on the young.
20. Did you have fun at Prom?
Didn't go to the prom or any school dances.
21. Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with?
*points up at #20*
22. Are you planning on going to your next reunion?
No, never been to one; no desire to. Most of my friends were slightly below me, so they weren't in my class.
23. Are you still in contact with people from school?
Yes, my two best friends at the time, but it's mostly just FB posts or emails at the holidays.
24. What are/were your school's colors?
Black and gold
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Date: 2016-07-26 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-26 04:23 pm (UTC)But almost every weekend we would have a slumber party at one of our houses or other, and spend the time squealing over Tiger Beat and 16 magazines, listening to the records and talking about Mike, Davy, Mickey and Peter. I was the one in love with Peter, and one of them was into Mickey. The others all crushed over Davy (Mike was married, and thus off-limits.) I was the oldest in our bunch, all the rest were one or two grades below me.
I was the only one who ever got to a concert. I had the ride the bus all by myself from Panama City, FL to Mobile, AL, where I stayed with an old friend of my mother's for the weekend. The concert was as noisy and mind-blowing as you might expect. The opening act was Olivia Newton-John, whom no one had ever heard of at that point.
Even after the Monkees broke up, our core group still hung together, though.
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Date: 2016-07-26 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-27 12:18 am (UTC)I thought I was so much more realistic than my friends who were in love with Davy--they thought all they had to do was look into his eyes!
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Date: 2016-07-26 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-27 12:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-26 06:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-27 12:35 am (UTC)I think many girls had those sorts of high school years, much more than the usual clichés you see in TV shows or movies. Yes, I was a bookworm and a nerd, or a dork (geek didn't come along till later) but it wasn't the sort of nerd or geek that you see in the usual fictional cliques. I had friends in various other groups, but they were more "friendly acquaintances" than friends I could spend time with. As I said, I was older, and so was like a "big sister" to my own friends. They had boyfriends; I never did until college.
I did have someone who bullied me, but she was never popular herself, unlike the mean girl bullies in fiction.
Mostly I was just someone who preferred to keep her nose stuck in a book.
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Date: 2016-07-28 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-29 11:34 pm (UTC)I once had four customers and a co-worker all clustered at my register discussing an upcoming reunion and being all scandalized because one person who always came wasn't going to come.
As for me, meh. As I said, nearly all my closest friends were a class or two below me, and they wouldn't be there. I didn't really care about the others.
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Date: 2016-07-28 11:33 am (UTC)Youth is wasted on the young
Oh yes! So very true.
- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 2016-07-29 11:44 pm (UTC)I still have all my albums but one, and I still have the jacket, but somewhere along the line the LP vanished! (That one was "The Birds, The Bees and the Monkees" and I really missed it--it was one of my faves.)
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Date: 2016-07-30 07:28 am (UTC)- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 2016-07-30 09:20 am (UTC)My mother allowed me to name a whole litter of registered German Shepherd puppies for Monkees songs. The one my aunt got was named "Little Bit"; her official name was "Little Bit Me, Little Bit You", and the lady I babysat for bought "Auntie Grizelda".
My younger sister made up a tap dance routine to "Cuddly Toy" for her dance recital. (She was eleven. I do not believe anyone actually paid any intention to the actual lyrics. It was not till years later that I realized just how inappropriate they were.)