jim wrote:I loved high school for all of the reasons luke mentioned.
Me too!
luke basically listed the prerequisites for a good night.
Actually I was a pretty good kid in HS up until the very end when I knew they couldn't do jack [expletive] to me. I got caught drinking my Soph year - second time in my life I had ever drank - and then I pretty much was alcohol free up until the end of my Senior year. My friends don't remember/won't believe me, but if they think really hard they will realize that there were a couple of years where when the [expletive] really hit the fan, I was never there. I would go to the parties but just never drink.
jim wrote:I loved high school for all of the reasons luke mentioned.
Me too!
luke basically listed the prerequisites for a good night.
Actually I was a pretty good kid in HS up until the very end when I knew they couldn't do jack [expletive] to me. I got caught drinking my Soph year - second time in my life I had ever drank - and then I pretty much was alcohol free up until the end of my Senior year. My friends don't remember/won't believe me, but if they think really hard they will realize that there were a couple of years where when the [expletive] really hit the fan, I was never there. I would go to the parties but just never drink.
I played sports basically all school year so I rarely drank in season. Maybe one beer at homecoming or prom parties. I didn't miss many parties but was usually the dd and sober. Summers however we'd camp out and drink about every weekend. Girls, sports, fast cars, party's loved it all. Glad my daughter is only 3. Let us know how it goes Luke.
Tomorrow my daughter starts pre-k at her daycare. You know what's after pre-k? K. Yeah, kindergarten. It seems like I just brought her home from the hospital. I will not do well with K.
For those of you who find this sexist, and that's apparently none of you, I would feel pretty much the same if she were a he.
Actually, my worries are more about whether she will learn how to work hard, show a bit of discipline, quit making excuses, realize she doesn't know everything, and just grow up and make reasonably good decisions. The list is just the context.
jim wrote:I loved high school for all of the reasons luke mentioned.
Me too!
luke basically listed the prerequisites for a good night.
Actually I was a pretty good kid in HS up until the very end when I knew they couldn't do jack [expletive] to me. I got caught drinking my Soph year - second time in my life I had ever drank - and then I pretty much was alcohol free up until the end of my Senior year. My friends don't remember/won't believe me, but if they think really hard they will realize that there were a couple of years where when the [expletive] really hit the fan, I was never there. I would go to the parties but just never drink.
I played sports basically all school year so I rarely drank in season. Maybe one beer at homecoming or prom parties. I didn't miss many parties but was usually the dd and sober. Summers however we'd camp out and drink about every weekend. Girls, sports, fast cars, party's loved it all. Glad my daughter is only 3. Let us know how it goes Luke.
Prom Senior year I pretty much hit everything on luke's list, but otherwise like you I kept clean. I got a scare, it was Feb. of my Soph year and I just found out I was going to play varsity baseball and I left a HS basketball game at halftime to go drink some Pepperment Schnaaps with friends (mike was there). Got caught by cops sent downtown, had our parents pick us up. I thought I was done, I really did. Somehow that did not get back to school, or the coach just chose to ignore it, not sure which. But I felt like it was a new life.
Which makes what is going on in a neighboring down so incomprehensible to me. A bunch of kids, including a lot of football players, got caught drinking and it did get back to the school. First timers got a 2 game suspension, second timers I think 4, and then third timers are just done with sports period. It's a well off community I should add. Well, a lot of parents are furious, and to hear their arguments was just mind blowing. You know I get a kid doing something stupid, and a 2 game suspension is pretty stiff. That should wake your ass up. I can see no excuse at all for these kids that got caught more than once.
