Old-School Average Jane

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I got this from my friend, LuAnn, who is a teacher. I decided it was as good a way as any to start off the week. Fill this out about your SENIOR year of high school. The longer ago it was, the more fun the answers will be.

1. Did you date someone from your school?
No, but I did date someone from the other school in our district.

2. Did you marry someone from your high school?
No.

3. Did you car pool to school?
No, I mostly rode the bus.

4. What kind of car did you have?
For a brief moment I had a powder-blue Plymouth Horizon that my grandparents gave me. I wrecked it almost immediately and didn't get it back until after I graduated.

5. What kind of car do you have now?
Honda Insight hybrid.

6. It's Friday night…where were you?
Probably hanging out with my boyfriend and possibly our band. (Yeah, my thing for musicians goes way back.)

7. It is Friday night (present day)…where are you?
Hanging out at home with the hubby, going out with some of my Twitter pals or playing in a bar with my band.

8. What kind of job did you have in high school?
I didn't have a job until after I graduated. Then I worked in the cashier's office at Sears.

9. What kind of job do you do now?
I handle all aspects of social media for advertising clients.

10. Were you a party animal?
No.

11. Were you considered a flirt?
Absolutely not.

12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
I was in choir in junior high, but not in high school. I was in a rock band, though.

13. Were you a nerd?
Definitely.

14. Did you get suspended or expelled?
Nope, I was a complete goody two-shoes.

15. Can you sing the fight song?
There was a fight song?

16. Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)?
I liked Mrs. Searcy and Mrs. Gelsinger (both English teachers).

17. Where did you sit at lunch?
Because I was a nerdy outcast, I ended up sitting with the stoners. I never did drugs, but they were the most socially laid-back group in school and didn't care who hung out with them.

18. What was your school's full name?
Ruskin High School

19. When did you graduate?
1985

20. What was your school mascot?
Golden Eagle

21. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
I'll steal LuAnn's answer: Not only no, but hell no.

22. Did you have fun at prom?
No. I only went because my mom insisted it was an important rite of passage. Hmmph.

23. Would you talk to the person you went to prom with?
Definitely, but I haven't run into him in quite some time.

24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion?
No, I think I'm finished with my reunions. It's getting to the point where I hardly recognize anyone and vice versa.

25. Do you still talk to people from school?
Not really. I have a couple of Facebook friends from high school, but I think I've taken too different a life path from most of my old buddies to have much in common with them anymore

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6 responses to “Old-School Average Jane”

March 24, 2009

Mike J.

I think you’ve missed a lot of good times during high school. But it’s okay, I guess everyone is entitled with their own happiness right, and you’re happy just being like that.

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March 24, 2009

Average Jane

Oh, Mike J., you silly spammer you! I’m not even going to delete your obnoxious comment because it amuses me. It’s not really a good way to promote your site, though.

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March 24, 2009

Valerie

Mike J. sounds like he was one of the Popular Crowd, the group that peaked in high school and has been losing ground ever since. Why else would he work for schoolsandreunions.com?

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March 24, 2009

emawkc

I can’t decide which of my three senior years of high school I should use.

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March 25, 2009

mojavi at Simple Things

those are so much fun, the questions just bring back such good memories… I had a thing for bands too 🙂

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March 30, 2009

Barb Holter

1. No, I dated a “college guy”.
2.I gleaned two marriage proposals from high school, but I knew better.
3. My boyfriend took me to school before he went off to UMKC.
4.Car? No one had a car in high school! I lusted after a ’69 Mustang that my boyfriend’s mother let him drive.
5.Friday nights I usually spent with my extended group of girlfriends.
6.Sigh. Probably watching the previous night’s Jon Stewart and
Stephen Colbert. My social group tried Friday nights but people kept falling asleep on couches by nine, so we all wisely decided Sat. nights were better for aging working stiffs.
7.In high school, I worked at TG&Y (a dime store) and at a Dairy Queen in the summer. I despised both jobs, and both had unpleasant male bosses. The Dairy Queen guy sat with binoculars and watched us from his real estate office across the parking lot to make sure we weighed each ice cream cone. My father made me earn my first pair of contact lenses or I NEVER would have stuck out the summer.
8. I have been a teacher since 1975.
9.No, not at all. We all drank beer, but it never got out of hand. It was before drugs hit the scene, so that wasn’t an issue, either.
10. No, never could flirt worth a damn.
11.Jeez, I am mixed up in my numbers, so I am just going to soldier on. I wasn’t in a band or choir; got called to the principal’s office when I was a senior for wearing a black armband to protest the Vietnam War. There were no consequences.
15. Ditto, what the hell is a fight song?
16.My favorite teachers were my English teacher Mr. Redford and my Journalism teacher Mr. Stanley.
17. I worked as a cashier at school for the 4 lunch shifts. I earned $35.00 a month. I never ate, being a teenage girl who was obese at 105 pounds.
18.Raytown South
19. 1969-It was cool then, and it is cool now.
20. The cardinals
21.I see I skipped the nerd question. I was a great student, but not considered a nerd. (At least not that I know of)
22.I really didn’t like high school that much after the first two years. I wanted to graduate early, but my parents didn’t want me to do that. They thought the. .
23.prom was so important! I went, but it must not have been that great since I barely remember it. I do have a picture of me in an ugly yellow princess waistline dress.
24.I saw my old boyfriend at the last reunion Yes, he was not in that class; I suspect he wanted to hit on my friend Nancy, which turned out to be eerily correct. Not that much has changed since high school!
25. That would be a definite “no”. I have been to three, and that is more than enough!
26? I still have two close friends from high school that have been life-long friends. One helped me pass Home Ec. and I helped her pass English.
I enjoyed your answers. You never know everything about your relatives.

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