CarrieMpls said:

I know! Why don't you remember me?!

NDRU said:

CarrieMpls said:

Oh gawd, I hate that. Whenever I'm forced to hang out in the town where I went to school, I have to deal with random people walking by going, "hey, Melissa!". For all I know these were people who were total assholes to me the last time I saw them. . . I don't know you! Go away!

HereToRockYourWorld said:

that's why i am glad i move. that happened to me all the time, and because of doing years of theatre, it wouldn't just be high school, but audience as well.

here, aside from the few people i have run into from austin or midland, no one has a clue who i am.

cborgman said:

Totally. It was funny, 'cause I actually did a lot of my theater stuff with a group in the next town over, so when I'd go back THERE it would be mostly older folks who would stop me. "Hey, you, weren't you so-and-so in such-and-such?"

I don't know you! Go away!

I played some scary evil character in some damn thing, and one time a little girl saw me in a grocery store and remembered me, and went running to hide behind her mother. That was kinda sad.


And now I'm blissfully anonymous.

I remember about one hot minute of high school, and that was graduation night....for some reason I don't really remember the rest of it....Walked around alot with my head in the clouds...

My highschool was super small I'm not sure we had "popular" and "unpopular" kids. I had enough friends to keep me busy, I talked to just about everyone. But I guess I was a bit of a weirdo too, drama geek, school newspaper etc.

Sweeny79 said:

Wow. We had some 900 graduates.

Graycap23 said:

I graduated with something like 86 kids.

Sweeny79 said:

We had the many in each alphabet.....300 plus did not graduate.

Graycap23 said:

My boyfriend had a class like that...his school is one of the biggest in the us...or was at the time...he grauduated with almost 2000 I think.

Funny thing is we live 8 miles away from eachother I don't know why my school was so small and his was so big!

Sweeny79 said:

2000? What school was that?

Graycap23 said:

Class of 94

Since then they have added a few buildings I think, and bused kids out.


http://www.clifton.k12.nj...index.html

Sweeny79 said:

I thought my school was big. We had 5,000 students.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

I remember that. It's when I started my voodoo doll collection!
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Graycap23 said:

When I was a kid I alawys wished I went to my bf's school because it was so big, figured I could get lost in the crowd and wouldn't have to deal with all the small town drama we had at my school. oh well...

Sweeny79 said:

I went to a very small Jr. High, but a large High School. I definitely preferred the big school. There wasn't just one "cool crowd" and one "nerd crowd," etc. There were lots of crowds and more space to fit in somewhere. Of course I also hated the Jr. High years & might have been miserable anywhere.

NDRU said:

Yeah I think jr high sucks ass for everyone.

Sweeny79 said:

You guys missed out....grammer school, highschool, college all were GREAT. Life is even better now.....

Sweeny79 said:

Definitely the most insecure & awkward time ever.

But I was happy to go to a big High School and get out of not only the small school with the same 200 students I'd known my whole life, but the small town as well. Though commuting 25 miles to it wasn't that fun!

Graycap23 said:

I'll agree with the life is better now part...

NDRU said:

That's not a fun busride, let alone twice a day.

Sweeny79 said:

Our high school started in 10th grade, so my parents let me drive to school as soon as I turned 16 (!?) on a very dangerous road. So not much bus time for me, but I started my road rage at a young age.

I often drove it twice (x 2) a day on the weekends!
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does being poopular count?

Sweeny79 said:

My class had 29 people, including one foreign exchange student (with whom I still email). The rest of us (12 guys and 16 girls) had pretty much gone to school together since Kindergarten. I think everyone except maybe 3-4 still live in our hometown, are married with kids. They still "cruise the loop" and drink beer for fun on the weekends just like we did in high school. When I go back for xmas, they are still talking about the big football season of '91 or prom '92... It's like Michael Rappaport's character's line from Beautiful Girls, "Nothing changes in the valley but the seasons."

~spelling/grammar edit~
[Edited 4/20/06 15:47pm]

Sweeny79 said:

Really! I used to think it was good that my youth wasn't so great--it left room for improvement. But now I find out my childhood could have been great and still get better afterwards? shit

jone70 said:

oh...my....God....

You poor thing!

NDRU said:

I know just what you mean.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

It's SO awkward running into people from HS, I've stopped all the bullshit. If they recognize me & say something I'll keep it super brief but if I see them first I just avoid them It's just dumb - we don't know each other, all the "how are you" bullshit saps what little energy I have & honestly who cares that you once took a Spanish class down the hall from me?

jone70 said:

That is incredible to me. Wow.....I'm glad I got out and seen the world. It's a BIG place.