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Gender: Male
Status: Married
Age: 44
Sign: Aquarius

City: Tampa
State: Florida
Country: US
Signup Date: 8/31/2005

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Thursday, May 24, 2007 

A meme from my friend Craig:

 

I KNOW I've done this one, but for the benefit of my renewed acquaintances ...

Fill this out about your SENIOR year of high school! The longer ago it was, the more fun the answers will be.

1. Who was your best friend?: Mike Stack, Louis Bode, Greg Tobias, Paul Ezzo, Sheelagh McCaughey

2.What sports did you play?: Basketball, track, spring football

3. What kind of car did you drive?: A white '76 two-door Olds Cutlass with a 356, V8 engine, bench seats and a blue half-vinyl roof. As Cartman would say: "Kick ass." I wrecked it. Several times.

4. It's Friday night, where were you? Maybe at Stack's or Tobias' houses. Maybe at church youth group.

5. Were you a party animal?: I had my moments.

6. Were you considered a flirt?: I had my moments.

7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? Yeah. If you can qualify butchering the bass drum in marching band as membership.

8. Were you a nerd?: I was able to bridge the nerd/sports/journlism/Catholic youth group genres to bring each down to new lows.

9. Did you get suspended/expelled?: Yes. Yes I did. Please see question No. 5.

10. Can you sing the fight song?: It was a Catholic school. The closest thing we got to a fight song was singing "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" by Van Halen out in the parking lot before school.

11. Who was your favorite teacher?: Miss Connie Ehlers.

12.What was your school's full name?: St. Petersburg Catholic High School.

13. School mascot?: The Baron. I'm not making this up. Gayest. Mascot. Ever. We not only lost football and basketball games, we lost so big, they nearly qualified as hate crimes. I attribute that to the mascot.

14. Did you go to Prom?: Yep. With Ellie, a distant cousin by marriage from South Carolina. (She was a nursing student with a large chest who had a sweet Southern accent and her own car. Gimme a break. That's was, like, the magic Penthouse Letters combination in 1983) How Southern was she? When she got mad, she'd threaten to "pole" me. As if to say, she intended to hit me with a broomstick. This drove me insane. I told her, "If I was going to threaten to run you over, I wouldn't say, 'I'm gonna car you.'" Our relationship went downhill soon after. Especially after she announced we would only be kissing.

15. If you could go back and do it over, would you?: Prom? Sure, why not. I got to watch my ex-girlfriend's revenge date strip on the dance floor and get thrown out of the Don CeSar for swimming naked and drunk in their hotel pool. The Prom Queen, Julie, was so loaded, she had to be carried during the last dance by my friend Mike, who was Prom King. Made for some really great photos in the yearbook.

Would I do high school over? Not in a million years.

16. What do you remember most about graduation?: Well, it was in a cathedral, so the ceremony was rather restrained. My father couldn't be bothered to wear a tie. Graduation night? Magnifico. It's mostly a blur Woke up on the beach behind the Don CeSar with a bottle of Jack in one hand and my head in the lap of a woman I've yet to see since and whom I would be unable to identify from a lineup today. Regardless, I owe her my life.

Later that day, I drove with my friend Desmond to EPCOT. We stole a wheelchair and spent the day pretending to be handicapped so we could get on rides quicker. I've matured greatly since then.

17. Where were you on senior skip day?: See question No. 9. The school skipped it for me.

18. Did you have a job your senior year?: Several. I worked at marina as a dock hand and also at a fish restaurant as a busboy. I had tan lines around my ankles from wearing docksiders in the sun for 20 hours each weekend and I smelled like hush puppies and French fries during the week.

19. Where did you go most often for lunch?: Our shitty school cafeteria.

20. Have you gained weight since then?: That would be an understatement.

21. What did you do after graduation?: Attended FSU and finished at UF.

22. When did you graduate?: High school? 1983.

23. Who was your Senior prom date?: See question No. 14.

24. Are you going to your 10 year reunion?: You mean 14 years ago? No, I didn't go. Didn't do the 20th either. I didn't feel the need to pay a thousand bucks to hang with people whom I would have paid a thousand bucks to get away from in 1983.

25. Who was your home room teacher?: Miss Connie Ehlers.

26. Who will repost this after you?: To quote Tom Petty: Baby, even the losers get lucky sometimes.

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Rommie

 
1. Who was your best friend?: Kevin Little, Keith Fawcett, Josh Ayer, Scott Lamb, Stacy Perez, Daryl Glein

2. What sports did you play?: Soccer

3. What kind of car did you drive?: A red '80 Honda Accord hatchback. The stereo system was worth more than the car.

4. It's Friday night, where were you? Other than the month or so when Keith and I tried to make Long John Silvers the cool hangout, I probably spent most Friday nights in undeveloped subdivisions drinking beer until the cops showed up. If you think there's nothing to do in Brandon NOW, you should've seen it then.

5. Were you a party animal?: My parents certainly seemed to think so.

6. Were you considered a flirt?: Not so much.

7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? Nope.

8. Were you a nerd?: I was a social chameleon. Or, as some might argue, a cipher. When surrounded by nerds, I was a nerd. When surrounded by jocks, I was a jock. When surrounded by girls, I was scared out of my mind.

9. Did you get suspended/expelled?: Almost, but no.

10. Can you sing the fight song?: I cannot.

11. Who was your favorite teacher?: Mr. Paul Trojak. I think he hated me, though.

12.What was your school's full name?: Brandon High School.

13. School mascot?: Eagles.

14. Did you go to Prom?: I went with my friend Susie. She was a junior, which made her seem somehow less intimidating, but she was also the head cheerleader, which made me seem infinitely cooler to my friends, who probably (hopefully) assumed we weren't "just friends." We had dinner at Armani's, dropped by the dance for, like, five minutes, and met up with a bunch of friends at a hotel near the beach where we'd reserved a few rooms. The drawback of taking a junior to prom was that I had to have her home at, like, midnight or something. So while I was racing back to the hotel after dropping her off, I got a speeding ticket for going 91 mph in a 55 zone. Back at the room, a friend of a friend fashioned a bong out of a Coke can and my worries disappeared.

15. If you could go back and do it over, would you?: No effing way.

16. What do you remember most about graduation?: It was at the Fairgrounds in Expo Hall. The only thing I remember about the event itself is being really annoyed at my parents the whole time. Later that night, we had a party at a hotel, where about 50 people wore their caps and gowns with nothing underneath. At some point, we made up our own drinking game: You had to take a swig of Mad Dog 20/20 every time UB40 sang the word "red" in the song "Red Red Wine." Pretty soon we ended up in the hotel pool (minus the caps and gowns) and the cops showed up. Good times.

17. Where were you on senior skip day?: In the back of a police car at a beach somewhere in Manatee county.

18. Did you have a job your senior year?: I worked at a formalwear store, eventually rising to the lofty position of Assistant Manager, a promotion that increased my hourly wage from $3.35 to $3.95 (sweet!). It was the last job I held that required me to wear a tie. I also worked that summer at Busch Gardens, cooking hamburgers at the Zagora Cafe. Do not ever eat there.

19. Where did you go most often for lunch?: Mostly we'd hole up in the Student Government office and drink sodas left over from the last school function.

20. Have you gained weight since then?: I have.

21. What did you do after graduation?: Went to college, got a job, filled out ridiculously long memes.

22. When did you graduate?: I graduated high school in 1988.

23. Who was your Senior prom date?: Susie. I think she goes by Susan now. She still lives in town. I run into her from time to time. A lovely person.

24. Are you going to your 10 year reunion?: Yes, I went. It was a complete waste of time and money. As it turns out, I'd already made a point of keeping in touch with the small handful of classmates whose very presence didn't make me fantasize about painting 60 rocks with their blood. So I got incredibly drunk and made a fool out of myself. High school all over again.

25. Who was your home room teacher?: I honestly can't remember.

26. Who will repost this after you?: One of Jeff's other friends who has too much time on their hands.
 
Posted by Rommie on Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 8:58 PM
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Kerbie

 
I live in the same town as Scott Lamb....thought it was cool that he was one of your best friends....I graduated from BHS in 1990 and now live in Asheville, NC
 
Posted by Kerbie on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - 1:05 AM
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