I am still drunk
Let's see,
I went to a small public high school in a suburb. What did this mean? We all kind of had our own groups of friends, yet we all kind of grouped ourselves into one big group by the time we graduated (which was cool.)
I have a sister two years older than me and a bunch of my closest friends have siblings in that same year. So when we were freshman, they were juniors. They gave us a hard time, but by the time we were sophomores, we all hung out which was very cool. We would all see each other at the same parties. I grew up in a rather wealthy neighborhood, yet my family was not as rich as about 80% of the other families. The only thing to do in my town was drive around and go to parties. We have no bars, no movie theaters, nothing, not even a supermarket. The town is zoned strictly for residences so all we have are our houses.
I digress...
Due to the fact that we had nothing to do, all we would do was drink. I had a friend whose parents were always out of the country and they owned a monster of a house, so we would always party there. I remember a time when we drank so much, there was nothing left in the house to drink, we actually opened a bottle of cooking wine and started doing shots. Sad, but true. There was a time during our "Hawaiian Luau" party we threw there that some guy in our class picked up 4 Scandinavian girls who did not speak English at the airport and brought them there. At one point in the night my friend (whose house it was) was trying to explain to two police officers with a straight face that he did not know the 4 drunk girls who did not speak English, but were comfortable enough in his house to proceed to smash a case of crystal champagne glasses on the floor in front of the cops. It kind of got out of control...
At school, I was in all the honors classes, but was kind of an underachiever. I was more into getting trouble than grades, but I always seemed to pull it off. I was in the top 30 (out of 600)students in my class, yet partied and caused trouble like anyone else. I was on a few sports teams, yet that was never my real strong point. When I look back now, had I studied just a bit harder, I could have gone to Harvard. Anyway - I do not mean to brag, I just think class came easy to me, it was a social life that I was concerned with. I never really dated anyone through high school because I pretty much knew these girls since kindergarten and by then they really did nothing for me. No one ever understood that though.
So we all had our little cliques, but by the time we graduated we all hung out like I said before. It would actually be really funny as we would be throwing a party at my friend's house and you would see a football player talking to someone else saying things like, "...dude, weren't you the guy from my English class who tried to blow up his locker with windex, a battery, and a carton of cigarettes???" Funny shit like that always happened, jocks talking to nerds, musicians dating prom queens, cheerleaders, well cheerleaders were cheerleaders (right atcha Flower!)
Anyway - I had fun, probably should have tried harder, probably should have partied harder, but hey it was high schol - that is what it was all about....