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Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 02-26-2004, 01:02 AM:

Yes, I know this is another self indulgent thread. But the point is I want to know what you all were like in high school. It would be fun to read the stories.

"Were any of you a goody two-shoe in high school or a trouble maker?"

Looking back at my yearbook a few weeks ago I realized I was a goody goody. I was in a bunch of clubs and the arts. Being chosen a "Senior Leader" by the faculty was kind of a surprise, because I didn't really think I impacted the school that much. Senior Leaders was composed of 24 students out of about 400 seniors. The best of the best from every cliche, organization, etc. From the athletes, cheerleaders, musicians, salutatorian, computer techs, ROTC, artist, etc. It was really fun, we got to do skits, outtings, parties and impact our school in some way.

I never really had to suck up to any teacher. I seemed to hang out with everyone, it didn't matter what social class or race they were. Alot of aquiantances in high school, and alot of good friends. Always a "high five" while I walk down any hall. It was funny how I never had to really study for anything and managed to be on the honor roll. Besides the fact that my closest friends were really smart (and no, I didn't cheat off of them).

On the somewhat trouble-maker side, I got fed up with my art teacher. Having the same teacher for 3 years in a row sucks. We were cool at first but it got to the point where I was tired of being friendly with her just to be considered a good artist. So I just slacked off and talked to everyone in the class. I would walk around to every table and just start conversations with people just to get the teacher pissed off. Because she knew perfectly well that the class loved me.

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 02-26-2004, 01:15 AM:

Hey! You're not allowed to declare the thread pointless, that's Phil's job!

You're only allowed to state that it's self indulgent!

Posted by David Favel (Member # 1125) on 02-26-2004, 02:39 AM:

John Bender from Breakfast Club was my hero, the man I strove to be.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 02-26-2004, 02:42 AM:

I was a nerd in high school. Come to think of it, I'm still one. I think I grew into my nerd-ness.

The most trouble I ever got into in school was in the 5th grade. I ordered something called the "Amazing Hypno-Coin." It was a 2" plastic disk with a swirling pattern on it, that came with a booklet that told how to hypnotize people. I became the local hypnotist and was putting all my classmates in a trance at my house after school, during lunch hour, etc. My mom and dad were at work and had no idea any of this was going on.

I don't know to this day if my hypnotic talents really worked or not -- probably not -- but I gave a bunch of my friends "post hypnotic suggestions" where they would jump out of their chair upon hearing a certain word, or run around the room screaming at a certain time, or everyone would throw their books on the floor when the bell rang, etc. The other kids probably just "played along" and then told the teacher they couldn't help themselves due to my "post hypnotic suggestion." Whatever, it caused quite a chaos in my classroom.

Eventually people started making bogus cardboard "hypno-coins" and my whole class was hypnotizing each other. I had started quite a revolution, for a few days at least.

After a while, someone told their mother that people were being hypnotized at school, so I got a personal visit at my house from the principal, and was told if I didn't cut it out, I would be expelled. The whole thing sort of shook me up to the point that I never got in much trouble after that.

Posted by Pete Naples (Member # 761) on 02-26-2004, 03:23 AM:

Hmmmmmmmmmm

Primary School (age 5-12) I had my own seat outside the headmasters office for a lot of the time.

Secondary (12-18) I'd grown up a bit, not really trouble maker, not a nerd either. I was defintely rebellious I suppose. I was that kid arriving with the motorbike or the car, the leathers etc. S5 I got promoted to being a prefect and suddenly felt compelled to wear uniform, and S6 they made me deputy head boy, to this day I don't know why.

Posted by Paul Cassidy (Member # 951) on 02-26-2004, 04:17 AM:

I used to go to school to eat other Peeps lunches , apart from that I guess I was a goody , I can remember hiding and running home when I was due to go to the murder house [scream]

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 02-26-2004, 06:24 AM:

I slept through most of high school. If I wasnt sleeping, I was probably making smart remarks in the back of the class. Still managed to make fairly good grades though. Was not in any clubs or sports or anything like that, just a ruthless gang. Just kidding. I wasnt really interested in anything that was gonna have me at school any earlier or any later than I already was.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 02-26-2004, 09:32 AM:

I was very popular in school, all the girls wanted me to be their boyfriend. That's probably what helped me to be the fastest runner that my school ever saw. The Beatles had nothing on me. I was trim and could outperform anyone on the field or in baseball. That is, until we moved and I had to start in the middle of the year at another school where I knew no one. There, I got [bs]

on and grew bitter until I hated all people. After serving my prison term, I developed a small circle of cohorts and we terrorized the rest of the community until I lost my virginity.

Then, I became a nerd and ran all the classroom films. My reputation developed such that other teachers would take me out of class to go fix their projectors. [Cool]

I became cool again, however, when I got a Trans Am and landed a job as chief projectionist at the Sky-Vue drive-in, in 1978. I was such a good operator at the drive-in that they wrote about it in the newspaper, the constable expunged my record, and until today, no one knew the difference. [Razz]

Me, at said drive-in, in 1978 (note, cool blue jean jacket and Bee Gees hairstyle - Trans Am was parked outside):

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-26-2004, 12:59 PM:

I got bored easily in high school. I would always challenge the teacher's concepts,, especially since I was in a Catholic Hgh School... there was no way I was gonna let myself be brainwashed! The teachers didn't hate me, though. One good example was my mechanical drawing class, which I literally did nothing for nearly the entire first quarter... nothing at all except draw comics that were unreleated to anything. One day the teacher politely told me that I might want to start getting to work. So I did. I ended up proving some of the teacher's drawings wrong and of course I got an A in the class. The next semester I had Architectural Drawing and it was the same story and the same teacher. I also got A's in art related classes, but average grades in the rest. I failed religion many times and I am damn proud of that! No brainwashing! I'll make up my own mind. I also had a hard time with a priest teaching a class devoted to "Sex and Marriage". He would require that we get the answers correct word for word on the tests, so it was memorization and not actual learning.

As far as status goes, I wasn't the coolest kid and I wasn't the geekiest. I guess I was pretty popular since I could make everyone laugh and had the balls to stand up for myself. But girls weren't exactly jumping all over me... probably because we only had 40 people in my entire class. Slim pickin's. [Smile]

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 02-26-2004, 01:53 PM:

As anyone who knows me now would guess, I was a typical geek. I got OK-to-decent grades, had a small group of close friends, and spent many hours in the library reading everything but what was required for my classes. I was (and am) generally shy around groups of people.

The only time I got an "A" in anything art-related was for a short 16mm film that I made in the 10th grade (and even that was more for the effort than for the quality of the final product). I also made a short documentary on our senior class, which I look forward to using as blackmail material at my 10th reunion next year. [evil]

I believe I was the first student at my school to "surf" the then-new World Wide Web, too.

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 02-26-2004, 03:18 PM:

I wasn't a geek, or a loner, or at all popular...I don't know what I was. I had friends, not too many, not too few. Sometimes I'd have a lot of people to hang around with and sometimes no one... Hmmmm, yeah.

I was the Vice President in our Band (Which sucked, BAD), on the Rifle Team, in MCJROTC (Marine Corps Junior ROTC) - Sergeant, First Pitcher on our Softball team, played on the Freshman Basketball team, was in the chorus, and in an outside Junior Professional Chorus (CASYC), also in an outside of school Candlepin Bowling League. I think thats it.

I was just me, not really a label. Got good grades in ROTC, Band, and any art classes - anything else I was lucky to pass.

I got in trouble A LOT in Band and ROTC and was a goody two shoes in most of my other classes. Basically the fun classes I was a brat in. Also skipped school for 2 months straight which lead me to get my GED instead of high school diploma (that was the dumbest thing I've EVER done although I am eligible to get my actual High School diploma because my scores were so high on my GED, not sure if I'm going to though. I didn't really earn it.). That's me, now I'm going back to secondary school starting in April (if you count cosmetology as secondary school). [Big Grin]

Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 02-26-2004, 04:29 PM:

I was bored in High School. My mind would wander and I would daydream a great deal. I certainly wasn’t engaged. I went to a very small private school that had 1st through 12th grades. There were 135 kids in total. Pete Olsen and I were the largest so when we would play touch football he and I were always facing each other on the scrimmage line.

Sometime during my sophomore year the school was sold to this outfit called Accelerated Learning Systems that basically helped under achieving or problem kids get through school. There was a lot of learning at your own pace and what would you like to study going on. As a result I totally tuned out and smoked a lot of pot. I didn’t go to school in the afternoons my junior year. Lunch consisted of a mason jar of vodka and a joint.

One of my teachers figured out that I only needed 3-credits to graduate. He set up a tutorial school in Boulder called Boulder Educational Support Services Incorporated (BESSI). I studied with him for 4-months my senior year in order to graduate.

In High School I had no luck with girls. There were too few of them and they all knew me too well. I would always end up offending some girl and them be mortified for a month. I think it was from these experiences that I found my great loathing for the game of finding romance.

I felt that I missed out on some big High School experiences like organized sports, a good theatre group, music, and chemistry. I always fantasized about going to a larger high school. But I was of the mind-set that probably wouldn’t have taken advantage of any of it.

After High School someone meeting my mother told her that Ian was a nice kid but didn’t go out of his way to engage with other people. This is probably true today as well.

I was always making friends with the weak and scrawny kids. I had no use for the “jocks” and although I was a mild stoner, I certainly didn’t hang out with the “freaks.” I would usually pick one friend and hang out with that person till they got sick of me.

Then as now, I would try to use my dry sense of humor to win over the crowd. Some people saw that as condescending. I was teased a great deal and picked on. That is surprising due to the fact that I was always bigger than everybody else. It took me a long time to toughen up my skin and stop taking offence.

After I graduated I got a job at a sign shop. I flourished there. After six months I went off to collage and it was so exciting. I couldn’t get enough; it was like drinking from the fire hose. The social bullshit was better; the professors treated the students with respect. The classes were interesting. There were things to do and people to do them with. I thought ‘Shit, I could have been doing this two years ago.’ I did really well my freshman year of collage.

Most of my friends tell me that their High School experience was excruciating and a burden to get through. They all mostly enjoyed the collage experience. The only people I know who loved High School are the ones with exuberant personalities who always seem to be having fun.

God, this post is like therapy. Thanks Doc, I feel so much better now.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 02-26-2004, 04:47 PM:

OK Daryl, by the power vested in me, I hereby declare this thread: POINTLESS.

BUT!!!! I will post my "history" for yous to laugh and point at me and make me feel bad.

Like Joe, I went to a Catholic school and was completely turned off by "their" BS and the attitude of "You're-going-to-hell-if-you-have-sex-one-more-time. This time, you're forgiven my son if you tell me everything in explicit detail, oh and then say 5 Hail Mary's."

"Yes Father, I was an innocent young thing that was seduced. I had NO idea of how..."

As a result I only went thru the 8th grade. I hated school! I never studied, and would fart out-loud during class at the "appropriate" times. Needless to say, I spent a lot of time in the Principal's Office.

The only class I enjoyed was the "Hands-On Sex Ed" one taught by Father Jebedaiah Mayii.

Since I had no education, and only my good-looks as a youth, I went to Hollywood. I earned my $ early on by selling myself for sexual favors to old men and Priests. As a result, I'm pretty well set now and don't have to work. [beer]

Remember, whether you're in professional sports, or the "profession", make you're money while you're young. Youth fades, and is replaced by even more youths. [Wink]

If I had it all to do over again, I would. [thumbsup]

>>> Phil

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 02-26-2004, 05:07 PM:

Ok well I'm sure the real reason that JP opened this thread is because of what I wrote in Bobby's corrupted sports thread and she wants to know what I was like in high school.

I was an in between kind of kid. I didn't hang out with any type of crowd. I wasnt as much of a loner then as I am now. I was just some guy in the hall.

I was somewhat on the not so goody goody side. I found it repugnant that we were forced into school like cattle into a slaughter house. In the Mesquite independent school district code of conduct handbook there was a line stating that males were required to have short hair to make them "productive members of society." Something to that tune. Of course this was at the same time that they were telling us that everyone, regardless of appearance, is equal and forcing us to celebrate black history month.

I'm not going to get into detail about anything but I spent a lot of time in the office for not following dress code, spouting racial slurs, and not agreeing with everything that was being crammed down my throat. In short, no I was not a goody goody but at least I wasnt a jock.

If I had it to do all over again, if I could go back to 2000 and be 16 once more....I would probably go to Phil's school and have sex with more catholic school girls, just for the uniforms, not for the catholocism.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 02-26-2004, 06:37 PM:

I wasn't a "goody goody" in high school. I'm not sure what the hell I was. I played some sports, which is kind of cool I guess. I wrote and illustrated a lot for the "Inklings" school journal and was in the orchestra, all arguably nerdy things. But then I and my friends regularly got hold of beer, Barcardi 151 and other kinds of contriband on the weekends and risked getting into quite a bit of trouble. Nothing violent, just typical rebellious risk taking pushing the edge of the legal envelope.

I attended Quantico High School, aboard the Marine Corps base in Quantico, VA. There were about 350-400 students for grades 7-12. My senior class had around 22 students. Because of the high academic standards, many kids would transfer out to Potomac High School where it was a lot easier to get good grades.

The nice thing about a small high school is its impossible to be a "nobody." That can also be a bad thing. I was just a little skinny guy but I had to play football, which got the hell beaten out of me.

I suppose I would have only been considered a wimpy nerd if I didn't have my electric guitars and formidable art talents. I was always the best artist in every school I attended. At least I was until I got into School of Visual Arts in New York. Then I was around a lot of people just like me and the teachers (all working professional artists) didn't give a shit and tore egos apart.

Still, art and music talent didn't help me at all with the ladies. Most of my guy friends in high school had it just as bad. You can't win over a female classmate when you have no car, just a little money and 20 year old guys in college or the Marines are grabbing up those same female classmates.

As a result, I didn't go to any of my proms. I didn't feel like paying a big cover charge to stand by the wall and watch the girls dance with dates that didn't go to my school. Screw it. We had our own anti-prom bonfire beer blast party in the Breckenridge woods near the FBI Academy. None of us got laid, but we had a great time anyway.

type-oh edited

[ 02-27-2004, 09:06 PM: Message edited by: Bobby Henderson ]

Posted by Robert E. Allen (Member # 1351) on 02-26-2004, 06:46 PM:

""Were any of you a goody two-shoe in high school or a trouble maker?"

There is a MIDDLE GROUND Jen. Not a "goody two-shoe" or a "trouble maker". I was part of that group. Kinda invisible. Someone who could easily be ignored. In fact, most people ignore me to this day. I was part of the projection crew though. We ran Bell & Howells including a carbon arc machine in the main ouditorium.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-26-2004, 08:02 PM:

Hey Chris, there were no uniforms in my catholic high school! People would constantly wear t-shirts that said "Father Ken raped my dad and now he has to get his rectum analyzed". OK OK OK it wasn't that bad. We had a dress code, but no uniforms. [Smile]

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 02-26-2004, 08:28 PM:

well the uniforms are hot!

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 02-26-2004, 09:00 PM:

Joe: Chris told me he's into Sister Nurse Diesel....

>>> Phil

Posted by Adam Fraser (Member # 1074) on 02-26-2004, 09:12 PM:

I was another of those middle of the road kids. Had just a few friends. I didn't care about school but got all A's and B's because they only taught to the stupid kids' level at my HS.

Was always inserting little comments at just the right time during lectures when I knew more about the subject than the teacher or I thought their opinion was wrong just to piss the teacher off.

Never got into much trouble, did some things that weren't legal but didn't get caught.

I never really had girlfriends until my Junior year of HS, I think mostly because I cared more about working than a social life, worked 20-40 hours a week from 13 on. But now I'm 21 and married so I guess that was alright.

College was very uneventful; went to class, did my work, and graduated.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-26-2004, 09:17 PM:

quote:
Joe: Chris told me he's into Sister Nurse Diesel....

>>> Phil

Chris you are a sick freak!

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 02-27-2004, 03:48 AM:

Well I dont even know what a sister natal nurse is.

When I was in middle school my brother (4yrs older) had a girlfriend that wore the school girl outfits. This was around 1998 and Mario 64 was the big game at the time. She would always come over to play Mario 64 and every time she would sit down on the floor her skirt would fly up a little so you could see her (unfortunately covered) goodies. Also when she would be mad at the game she would kinda lean back a little and had the same effect. Why did my brother break up with her?? I dont know, now that I think about it...I need to go beat him up.

Posted by Emma Tomiak (Member # 1862) on 02-27-2004, 11:47 AM:

I went to the only Catholic high school here in Ft. Worth. I really hated all the religious stuff, and I yelled at my sophomore religion teacher because of all the bigoted BS she was spouting.
I suppose I was that weird girl you saw in the hall but never knew anything about. I pissed of the deans a lot because of my many piercings and uniform infractions, and because I wouldn't wear a skirt to Mass "like all female students should."
I had about 4 close friends, and never really talked to anyone else unless I was asked a question or was really pissed off.
High school: [puke]

College:

Posted by Josh Jones (Member # 447) on 02-27-2004, 05:55 PM:

I was corrupted by pubic (pun intended) education for twelve long years. My grades were alright, I think the only real classes I ever got A's in were CADD drafting and anatomy. I ran track for 5 years, and cross country for 4 years, so I guess you could say I was a track star. Ran the 2 mile in 9:58 [Smile]

I wasnt really into sports, and I wasnt really a jock, just a geek who could run really fast. During the second half of my senior year, I started an underground rock station, which I think granted me more popularity than any of my running ever did. Just goes to show ya, you have to break the rules to get attention [Wink]

Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 02-27-2004, 06:03 PM:

quote:
I wasnt really into sports, and I wasnt really a jock, just a geek who could run really fast.

If I had a nickel for every time I heard that one. Call it a survival instinct. And consider yourself lucky! Some geeks weren't blessed with speed.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-27-2004, 06:49 PM:

Josh is extremely fast. Back at Halloween at Brad's Josh ran into the auditorium and back out again (I guess to get something that was in the auditorium). I was in the booth. I saw a blur. A very damn fast blur. I as like "WTF was that?!?" And Brad said "Josh." And then I said "OMFG!"

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 02-27-2004, 07:27 PM:

Interesting how everyone that has posted on this thread has a picture except for Jeremy Fuentes.

I grew up in a small sheltered town I refer to as Hell, Texas. I was very popular, but in a one-sided way. Everyone knew me, but I didn't know most of them. By the time I got into the 8th grade, I was that guy who repaired all of the projectors (actually it was more like AV equipment in general) and set up video distribution systems around the school (multiple classes could then watch the same videotape simultaneously on different monitors in each room without the school having to spend $1000 per vcr back in the day) and I quickly became the official cameraman videotaping the sporting events...except for the football team which was of course too important enough for video. They got 16mm, which was fun.

By the time I got into high school I was appointed the title of "lord of the dark room" for the yearbook and was producing multiple camera videotapes of all school functions (student musicals, plays, graduation ceremonies and crap like that) at a dandy profit margin. I also had a nice gig on the side videotaping weddings (my record was 12 cameras), I became a manager by the age of 16 1/2 and tended to find a solution to anything that annoyed me (for example you would be amazed at how easy a vcr can be modified to defeat Macrovision if armed with the service manual) or if there was something I felt could somehow be more automated (like my various homemade platters that worked better than most of the junk on the market today). As for friends though, they were few because being social just wasn't me. Heck I'm still not all that social. I guess it was kind of hard for the rest of the school to NOT know who I was though.

Other than that, high school was an incredible waste of time. Thankfully I started doing that "zero hour" thing and by the time I hit my senior year my school day was over by noon, at which point I left campus and went to work (a far more productive use of time). My typing class turned out to be the most helpful class of those 12 years. Other than that, I didn't really learn much of use to me. The things that have been of use to me was all self-taught.

Was I a goody goody? No
Was I a jock? No
Could I run really fast? Hell no!
I don't know what I was. Still don't. [Razz]

Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 02-27-2004, 07:33 PM:

In high school I was the fastest person not on the track team. I beat them all in time trials but refused to compete in sports. I did not like attention then nor really do I like it that much now, unless I particularly invite it. In fact, you will never find a picture of me in the year books, as I refused to be part of any long lasting memory.

However, everyone knew me for the most part. I helped people get elected to student offices, was part of the then award winning music department (multiple instruments), and an all around socialite.

So take it how you will, but I shunned the spotlite IF it was put upon me without my agreement, but I invited it on my own terms.

I was a total nerd until I was 15, then some bully tried to beat the tar out of me. I stood there like homer simpson taking a beating and never got a mark. the bully was suspended and rather embarassed. After that summer, I grew 14 inches in height, then became a very sought after hunk. NO REALLY. I had girls all over me. Back then I was actually atractive! Now I only get hit on by old fat men. [Eek!]

WOW what age and complete inactivity will do to a person.

I miss the days of underage teenage girls feeding me snack foods in the hallways in an attempt to get me to date them. Now for some reason it's "illegal" for me to even attempt to date underage teenage girls. [Roll Eyes]

I mean what's all that about anyway? [Confused]

Ciao

dave [evil]

Posted by William T. Parr (Member # 677) on 02-27-2004, 08:22 PM:

I was in the middle of the two sides as well. About the only thing I was involved in in High School was being the the newspaper photographer and the manager/personal potographer for the Cheerleaders. I played Soccer my Sophmore year and 8 years prior in a city league and was in Band from 7th to 9th grade. I too was corrupted by 8 years of Public school. Went through 4 years of private school 2 of them sponsored by a Church. Other than that I was pretty much invisible on campus as well.

Posted by Martin Brooks (Member # 1269) on 02-27-2004, 10:11 PM:

The feeling I get from your post is that you might have more respect for the trouble-makers than for the "goody-goody" people. But it's the troublemakers who really were the more arrogant and immature people who acted-out in order to masquerade their own deficiencies.

I attended a specialized very large high school in the city -- it had over 6500 students and it was hard for anyone to become distinctive and known. I eventually became editor-in-chief of the yearbook, but most people in the school still didn't know who I was. At the time, the school was also an all-boys school (it's now co-ed), but every September, there would be an article in the school newspaper about how there were actually some girls attending the school, but since the school was so large, we might have not seen them yet. Most freshman usually believed this story - at least for a few weeks.

There was a transit strike in NYC when I was in high school and after about ten days they told us if we couldn't get to our own high school to go to the closest one. The closest one to me was a pretty tough all-boys school, so I walked right past it to the co-ed school where many of friends attended. In class, a very pretty girl sitting behind me made a drawing of the back of my head. I was so turned on by the idea that she paid enough attention to me to draw me that I almost transferred out of my school in order to go to the co-ed school instead.

We had our share of troublemakers, but the trouble was usually limited to someone stealing one's expensive drafting pens. But there were no security guards or metal detectors in the schools in those days -- if anyone was ever violent or destructive they would have been thrown out in an instant. Some of the rules were inane and restrictive, but in retrospect, everyone felt very safe all the time and while you could get away for a while without learning anything, most people really were there to work and learn.

The school also worked us to death. I worked much harder in high school than I ever did in college.

So did I ever get in serious trouble in high school? No. But did I still think I was cool? Absolutely.

Posted by Scott D. Neff (Member # 185) on 02-28-2004, 08:35 PM:

In High School I was thought of as a smart kid, in all the honors classes. But popularity-wise I transcended most groups. I stuck more with the drama/yearbook class of people, but I could hang out with anybody really except the football players.

That's what being known as "That guy who tells those stupid jokes" does for you.

Posted by Travis Hubrig (Member # 1745) on 02-29-2004, 04:20 AM:

I don't think I was a goody, goody?

I was the kid that would miss at least one day a week... the morning classes especially. Never did homework, but suprisingly my grades weren't too terrible. I had my teachers pegged, and they would always allow me to make-up. I have a twin brother that was pretty popular, so I knew everyone, just didn't hang out with them often. People liked me, probably cause they weren't sure if it was me or my brother they were talking to. They probably got a free ticket to movie at one point or another so that helped my cause. I really enjoyed my Phy Ed classes just because it was a good break from the routine. I took most of the swimming classes that our school offered, that was because those were the coolest teachers. Had another teacher that taught marketing/management, and because I was one of the few second-year students in his class, I often could run errands in the afternoon and not even go to the school. I think the teachers all liked me, and without even being a Goody-Goody.