Everyone looks so young!

I could only find this one...



With my giant 90210 bow in the front.

Stymie said:

Nuh-uh! She looks great! That's not very nice. Why do you say that? She was actually a grade younger than me.

GangstaFam said:

It's not her face, it's what she's wearing. She's dressed as if she's trying to be a middle-aged southern belle.
I still think she looks lovely. We just all make bad fashion choices now and again.

CarrieMpls said:

Exactly.

Stymie said:

YOU, on the other hand, look dashing!

minneapolisgenius said:

Very cute, but you look even better now.

retina said:

Thanks. I hated how I looked in high school actually. I was very shy and this guy (the one in the pic) was the weird "outcast" at the school I guess. We went together as a joke actually, because no one could ever have imagined us together for one thing, plus all "cleaned up" and in formal clothes.

It sort of caused a stir when we arrived at prom in fact because everyone was shocked that we even came. We started dating after that.

minneapolisgenius said:

I like that story.

retina said:

Thanks. I hated how I looked in high school actually. I was very shy and this guy (the one in the pic) was the weird "outcast" at the school I guess. We went together as a joke actually, because no one could ever have imagined us together for one thing, plus all "cleaned up" and in formal clothes.

It sort of caused a stir when we arrived at prom in fact because everyone was shocked that we even came. We started dating after that.

CarrieMpls said:

I think I look kinda dorked out, but thanks!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Yo! I ain't no dork, man Check me...







I'm as cool as Ice

Nope you are one hot piece of ass.

Stymie said:

Nuh-uh! She looks great! That's not very nice. Why do you say that? She was actually a grade younger than me.

minneapolisgenius said:

I'm surprised to read that, because back then people's popularity seemed to be based solely on their looks and that guy looks like a typical prettyboy and you're obviously beautiful. You must have really screwed up in one way or another to become an outcast.

minneapolisgenius said:

I'm surprised to read that, because back then people's popularity seemed to be based solely on their looks and that guy looks like a typical prettyboy and you're obviously beautiful. You must have really screwed up in one way or another to become an outcast.

retina said:

See, I don't think 'popularity' in my high school was based on looks at all! At least not how good looking someone was. Our homecoming queen was downright homely, if you ask me. It was more about if you wore a certain kind of clothes, and if you had money and beyond that how you could get in good with whoever else was popular. And a guy just had to be in sports. Most of them weren't good looking either.

CarrieMpls said:

Exactly!
You could be HIDEOUS looking, but if you had a pair of Esprit penny loafers, a Guess watch, and Gucci Sweatshirt, and a Benneton gym bag, you were ALL the rage.

Stymie said:

Gorsh. Do ya mean it?

retina said:

Aw thanks. But I was never popular at all throughout all of my school years. Guys never even looked at me. I was the shy, loner, punk rock/ska type girl and that never usually equals popular or pretty in school all that often. So just the fact that I'm in a formal dress was just weird to me and to everyone.

Forrest was very good looking. His odd personality though made most people shy away from him. He was always arguing with our history teacher (we met in history class) about what we were being taught and he would go off on these loud rants that would get him in trouble. He was very political, hippy-ish, and it was difficult to have a normal conversation with him. And this was in a very liberal art school in San Francisco, which really tells you something. Even so, the school still had the tradtional, normal "popular" kids and all that, just like any other school does.

Oh and as for the outcast thing with me, I DID fit in better in San Francisco (where this prom pic is from) than the school I went to before that in Minneapolis. God I hated it there.
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Stymie said:

Gorsh. Do ya mean it?

retina said:

See, I don't think 'popularity' in my high school was based on looks at all! At least not how good looking someone was. Our homecoming queen was downright homely, if you ask me. It was more about if you wore a certain kind of clothes, and if you had money and beyond that how you could get in good with whoever else was popular. And a guy just had to be in sports. Most of them weren't good looking either.

minneapolisgenius said:

From punk rocker to dancer...I bet your old self would have hated your new self.

Did you like dressing up for the dance like that? I remember that back when I had "rebellious" clothes I used to feel liberated to dress up once in a while, just as when I had to wear a suit to work more recently the first thing I did when I came home was to put on my most ragged old t-shirt and bum around in my boxers.

I know I might regret this later, but I never could turn down a good dare.

For some reason lately I can't get my scanner to scan a picture without a bunch of dust and smudges. I think they're under the glass at this point, cuz I've cleaned this thing endlessly. Anyway, this one turned out pretty well. Makes me smile when I look at it.

Me at my high school senior prom.

retina said:

Well, right there during that time of the prom pic, and before that as well, I was deep in training to be a ballet dancer. My whole life actually, since I was 8. I was very much into punk and ska music as well as a teenager, but I had sort of a "double" life. In my later classes in school I had 2 and a half hours of dance class there, and then immediately after school I'd take the bus to my ballet academy and train for another 3 and a half hours. I was obsessed.

So the main reason I say I hated how I looked back then, stems from me always thinking I was really fat and always trying to lose weight. It absolutely ruled my life and also made me really shy I think. That's a whoe different subject though.

ReturnofDOOK said:

Couldn't you find anyone else to go with? She wasn't hot or anything.

Spats said:

gemini13 said:

Why? is he still with her???