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“It’s Always A Car Salesman”: 34 Things That Indirectly Scream Someone Peaked In High School
Quite a lot of people don't really entertain the idea of attending a class reunion - they just don't want to face people they were stuck in the same classroom with for years, and they have moved on with their lives.
On the contrary, some folks seem to be overly excited about the thought of returning to their school - it's a place where they felt the happiest. Some dub them as "folks who peaked in high school", as they seemingly never left it, at least mentally. Today's list is all about them, or to be more specific, the signs that signify that a person has this mentality.
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#1
Forcing their kids to be football players/dancers/actors because that was THEIR thing in high school. they weren't good enough to go big leagues after school and they can't cope with that so they live vicariously through their kids.
Tempest 1 month ago
I know a classmate whose dad did exactly this. Don’t know if the dad was trying to live up to his failed dreams through the son, but he sure as hell went the extra mile. The dad pulled him out of school when he was preparing for his GCSEs and enrolled him at a public school in the hopes that he’d have better chances of getting recruited into the national team that way. He was a super mischievous kid at school but did alright with schoolwork before all this. After changing schools, he ended up having to spend an year or two extra (compared to the rest of us - his former classmates) to graduate, possibly cause the dad was too fixated on his work in the sport than school. He wasn’t even exceptionally good at the said sport so it’s a pity that the dad took him down this path. Sadly he never made it into the national team. Best he did was get into the junior squad (under-19s, etc) but now that he’s off that age bracket, he’s simply playing in minor league (or whatever it’s called) teams.
Val 1 month ago
Again, if Crystal isn't commenting on a post, she isn't there to defend herself. Don't be the type of a hole who talks c**p about something when they're not there.
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#2
If Coach had put me in fourth quarter, we would've been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.
Tabitha 1 month ago
Yeah, we can ALL be heroes in hypothetical situations. It’s being a hero in reality that counts, though.
Multa Nocte 1 month ago
And being a "hero" in a high school football game is hardly being a real hero, is it?
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Devin Schmitt 1 month ago
If the coach had put me in, we still would have lost, since I don't play football. Or any sport, for that matter.
Rick Murray 1 month ago
From this side of the ocean, the obsession with rugby played by crash-test-dummies is a bit bizarre.
Norfolk and good 1 month ago (edited)
I'm British (English) so football (soccer) is the biggest sport, with rugby and cricket not far behind, and in every pub in Blighty you'll find a middle aged man who will tell you he had trials for a premier league team, and how he could have gone pro if it wasn't for his bad knee/back/if he hadn't had a cold that day etc. That's when you just give them a little pat on the back and say "enjoy your night, mate."
Did I say that out loud? 1 month ago
If they're middle aged, then the Premier League wasn't around when they had their trials,it was the First Division.
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TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 1 month ago
How much you wanna bet I can throw a football over them mountains?
#3
In my town it’s always car salesmen who were hired by the owner, their father.
Or home renovation salesmen who were hired by the owner, their father.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
One of my former students was given the family business to run by his father. Less than a year later, dad took it back. I could have told him.
Rick Murray 1 month ago (edited)
My first job was thanks to nepotism. If I had stayed I'd probably be on a huge salary and looking to retire soon. But I'd also be completely gaga, assuming I didn't end it early. I hated that place *so* much I bailed and got a job cleaning a supermarket in the early hours, until I found something that didn't require me to get up at 4am. Nobody ever notices the cleaners (unless something goes wrong) and as a ghost in this world that suited my personality a lot better than a bunch of executives stabbing each other in the chest (never mind the back). I may not have a pile in the bank, but I have *no* regrets. I value my sanity more.
Billo66 4 weeks ago (edited)
Look up Tom Boland ford in Hannibal, Mo. and see who runs it now. I went to school with him. He always said he didn't want any part of that damned business lol. I also went to school with our sherriff. He used to buy so much weed from me lol. That's ok though, I got it from my history teacher who also happened to be the Mayor. The 80's were crazy.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
My best friend’s ex-husband had a business that had been in the family for three generations. His grandfather had been an excellent businessman and a pillar of the community. His father was a little flaky, but managed to keep things going. He (my friend’s ex) turned out to be a total waste case. Some cousins ended up taking over the business, and then it became a franchise of a national chain.
If you turn on any movie or TV show set in a high school, you’re bound to see characters being thrust into certain social hierarchies based on their personality or social status. In the iconic movie Mean Girls (2004), plenty of such cliques were distinguished. Among them were “the Art Freaks”, “the Cheerleaders”, “the Desperate Wannabes”, “the Varsity Jocks” and, of course, “the Plastics.”
Such a concept of cliques exists in nearly all teen media, maybe with slightly different names. But not all of them get equal amounts of screen time – usually the types like “jocks”, “popular girls”, and “nerds” get the most attention, as movies are often based on the conflict between these groups.
#4
Still acting like a typical "Mean Girl" or "high school jerk" when they’re dang near (or past) 35.
Tabitha 1 month ago
Usually in a clique of former high school mean girls at work. Same thing happens with the obnoxious jocks—-they usually end up in the Sales Department at work.
MalayDragon 1 month ago (edited)
Of the multiple bullies/A.s.s.h.a.t.s that were a.b.u.s.i.v.e at my highschool, as of our 20 Year reunion. Three are serving 25 to Life for various crimes, 2 of them died, and the rest faded into obscurity/amounted to nothing. To his credit the one guy who bullied me relentlessly in highschool apologized, it was very heartfelt and sincere.
#5
People who care about high school reunions too much
I graduated in 2010. We didnt have a ten year reunion because, you know covid.
The sheer drama about that jesus christ. My class had a 15th year reunion this year, and multiple people who I hadnt chatted with since 2010 messaged me asking why I wasnt coming
I moved across the country and never came back. My life did not peak in high school-it's far better now. No desire to relive any if that.
Tabitha 1 month ago (edited)
I graduated in 1978. Haven’t been back to any of the many reunions and don’t plan on going in the future. High school was over for me 47 years ago, and I have actually had a life since then, because I moved forward instead of hanging back and clinging to the past. You know you can peak several times, in several ways, throughout your entire life, don’t you? I have peaked many, many times since I left high school, including recently, so I don’t have to dredge up ancient history to feel like I’ve accomplished anything. If I can do it, anyone can.
Brian 1 month ago
1976 grad here. Went to the 25th year reunion and watched two grown men duke it out over something that happened at our senior prom.
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SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
I’ve been to my 20th and my 40th….out of morbid curiosity. 😏
howdylee 1 month ago
My hubby isn't on FB but I am, so a classmate of his friended me so that their reunion plans would get passed along to hubby. Anyway, I got to see a bunch of bickering and whining, because any idea was shot down, or everyone but 1 popular person could attend but since that one person couldn't then the whole thing didn't get scheduled. I did pass along the info to hubby, he shook his head and said he wouldn't attend no matter what after seeing how the people behaved just trying to plan the darn thing.
Hassel Davidhoff 1 month ago
I moved 15,000 kilometers away from my hometown just under 5 years after high school so my absence at our high school reunions tells my story better than my presence ever could.
Rick Murray 1 month ago
I finished in 1990. I think there is/was/maybe an "Old Boys Club" or something. I wasn't interested. If they had any get togethers, nobody told me, and I doubt I'd have gone anyway. Some people in my class were cool, others I'd never want to see again. And since it was a boarding school, it wasn't as if we all hung out at the same place. So, yeah, I think I bumped into one guy who didn't recognise me due to being well out of his noggin on whatever he bought with the money he stole from his gran...again. Thanks, but school was school and while I sometimes think it would be good to go back to those years (because it was pretty carefree and the '80s was a world without social media), that time came and went and I'm in a different country doing something I didn't expect to do, speaking a language I did three years of at school and left basically incapable of saying "Hello", and along the way did some other stuff I never thought I'd do... [continued]
Rick Murray 1 month ago
...me, a Care Assistant, looking after old people. Little Rick would point and laugh at you. But not only was I good at it, I liked doing it. It was like suddenly inheriting lots of surrogate grannies to make up for the fact that the one I knew was a total *itch (a 'w' or a 'b', both fit). So I'm not interested in reunions, I'm not interested in catching up. I think that sort of thing would too easily turn into a competition of who did the coolest thing, who makes the most, blah blah. It doesn't matter. It was a time in my life that I enjoyed, and that time has long since gone. Plenty of new adventures since then.
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 4 weeks ago
I was sent to boarding school for high school. The worst years of my life, and I'm 71 now and have been through a lot. Those high school years contributed to the PTSD I still live with.
#6
Dude was a cocky jerk in high school. When I saw him years later bagging groceries he looked at me with a look of half shame, half-I hope he doesn't recognize me. My life wasn't great either, but at least I didn't treat people like I was better than them.
ttirreg 1 month ago
Everyone has 2 bag his groceries , they dont magically appear in my trunk or am i missing something?
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 month ago
I ran into one of my former students who was working at Target. She graduated from college but hadn't found a job in her field despite looking for two years. She was mortified to see me.
Billo66 4 weeks ago (edited)
You have to play the long game. I took up for the ruthlessly bullied kids in school which didn't make me popular at the time. But now we are all old and they remember. I feel better about myself knowing I tried not to be a jerk. Although, I kind of am LOL. Old makes me disgruntled. Don't recommend.
Lady Eowyn 4 weeks ago
Nobody likes getting old, but it beats the only alternative. Or so the saying goes.
Load More Replies...Sometimes, these storylines make it seem that once you’re thrust into a certain group, you will be a part of it for the rest of your life. Most of us know that, typically, that isn’t actually true. First of all, in real life, such social groups don’t exist, at least not as strictly as they’re portrayed in the movies; belonging to them is way more fluid.
Even when they do exist, when you're associated with them, that doesn’t define the rest of your life. It might influence your high school years in one way or another, but it’s rather uncommon for it to have a lot of influence over your post-school life.
#7
Going to high school parties in your 20s.
#8
Still talking about good grades, standardized test scores or other academic achievements when that didn’t translate into real world success.
Reddit loves to act like the jocks and popular girls were the only ones who peaked in high school. A lot of the nerds did too and are still chasing that high of academic validation, especially the ones that didn’t go on to apply those skills to a well paying career.
Angela C 1 month ago
Sadly I'm one of those nerds that peaked in high school. College kicked my àss and I never graduated. In high school I thought I'd be rich and successful at this stage of my life. I try not to brag about my high school accomplishments though
Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
That's ok. I'm also a nerd, but I peaked in middle school. Upon puberty, I developed ADHD, so high school and college were a mess. It wasn't a diagnosis that was ever applied to girls at that point, and I wasn't diagnosed until I was 50yo. I love to learn, and spend time on it every day, but I can't manage classroom learning without zoning out.
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Nils Skirnir 1 month ago
Senator Shumer, DNY. 1st thing he does when he meets new staff is remind them that he got 1600 on the old SAT
Lady Eowyn 4 weeks ago
Who cares? The only thing I remember about my SAT score is that it was good enough that I didn't have to take freshman English in college. I "satted out," as we call it back in the dark ages.
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I recall a few students first year of college. They were top in the class in HS but College stopped them cold.
#9
Still bringing up high school stories like they were last weekend.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
When you get to be my age, sometimes you remember high school stories much more clearly than you remember last weekend.
Rick Murray 1 month ago
To be fair, though, you could get away with a lot more as a child than you could as an adult. So some of the more audacious stuff had to happen in high school because there would be rather different consequences if it had happened afterwards.
That is, unless you belong to those folks who are dubbed as “people who peaked in high school.” How to know if you’re one of them? Well, you can start by checking out today’s list – it’s full of examples that many netizens think describe such people perfectly.
Besides all of the points mentioned in the list, generally, people who are viewed as those who have reached their peak in their high school years are said to have certain characteristics that make them noticeable.
#10
"Faith not Fear" or "Lions not Sheep" slogans on shirts and trucks. We get it bro, you're super tough. .
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
Can I choose the flavor of the juice? XD (I may have missed a reference entirely)
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The red hat. It's a giveaway.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
That’s a sure sign that somebody was never going to amount to much.
Eugene the Jeep 1 month ago
I dunno, government posts seem to pay pretty well.
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For me, i saw a lot of those about 10 years after graduation when I was a cable guy. Every Wednesday was non pay day.all the installers went out with 25 or so jobs each and either collected the past due or disconnected them at the pole ( it's been a while). I worked the area where I grew up, and it was always awkward seeing the popular kids, cheerleaders, athletes, etc that had fallen pretty far. I was a cable guy , so no reason to brag, but it was shocking on some cases to see where they were.
They like to be the center of attention, just like they used to be back in the day. They also tend to be stuck in the mentality that individuality, standing out from the crowd, is something a person should not strive for. All they care about is how to look “cool,” and most often, their view of that is stuck in high school terms. Besides all of that, they simply just miss the “good ol’ days” of high school.
Granted, all of these signs, both in the list and the text, are generalizations – they don’t apply to every single person out there. After all, “peaked in high school” is typically used as an insult towards a person who seems not to have matured at all since they left that educational place.
#13
Always talking about what happened in highschool, my friend and I are 25 and she regularly brings up things that happened 10 years ago in an effort to put other people down, and always sending me Facebook/ instagram posts of people I haven’t thought about in years.
#14
When I arrived at the school where I currently work, there was a late 20s guy who attended every football practice and wanted to attend every basketball practice because he played at the school and wanted to show his support.
I shut down attending basketball practice immediately. His *parents* called my boss, who was so flabbergasted he couldn't form words when he was telling me that I'm within my rights to refuse to allow him in the gym.
The odd thing? We've never been that good at football here but that dude wore his letter jacket as a badge of pride.
Barbara Panda 1 month ago
Did anyone ever think he may be the type of person who enjoys being around children? I'll get censored but...P..E...D...O?
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
This. Adults who are too interested in kids and schools are creepy AF.
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Forcing their kids to relive their own youth when they hit high school.
Tabitha 1 month ago
People, let your kids be themselves, and not little carbon copies of you—-especially when they’re not and will never be. You’ll only be pushing them away if you push them too hard to do exactly the same things you did at their age. People who do that to their kids generally end up being the same people who are mystified as to why their grown children never call or visit them.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago (edited)
Yeah, this is one of the major sources of (yeah imma use the word) trauma in my childhood, from my mother. She wanted to be a world-famous actress and singer, but her mother wouldn't let her (different era; my mom was born in '44) - my grandma let her take singing and dancing classes, but never let her actually pursue a career in entertainment (Grandma saw it as something that only "loose" women did.) So, my mom forced my sister and I into acting, dancing, and singing from a very early age. My sister is actually talented in singing and has a great voice, but I don't think it was ever her "dream" to be a famous singer. I know that I hated being forced to take acting, singing, and dancing lessons - pretty much a class/lesson every day of the week - and most were in Los Angeles, which was ~2hr drive away. I didn't get any time to just be a normal kid - my mom was quite (ábusívely) insistent that I become a child star and make a ton of money so she "would never have to work again." I'm good at acting/performing and my singing voice is pretty good, but it wasn't MY dream to be an actor/singer.
And while quite many of these signs can be applicable to such people, that doesn’t mean that it is all they are. People are usually more than just a two-dimensional description — even these folks.
Still, we can have fun by entertaining the “peaked in high school idea” – do so by adding signs you think this list is missing in the comments!
#16
Wearing your varsity letterman jacket to the bar (or grocery store) when you are in your mid-20s.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 month ago
I still wear hoodies with my former universities' names on them and I'm 43. They're comfy, and good general-purpose coveralls for walking the dogs or mucking out horses. Also, my stepdaughter attends one of two unis I went to, so that's a nice thing for us to share.
AuspiciousTree283 1 month ago
This one doesn't matter. I'm guessing people wear letterman jackets out of nostalgia or comfort.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
If it's a decent jacket and it's useful as an item of clothing, I don't see why it's so horrible to keep wearing it. What are you supposed to do? Throw a perfectly-functional jacket away just because it's a letterman jacket? Shove it in a closet and never use it? I didn't go to high school (mom forced me to just take the GED) so I don't know for sure, but I thought letterman jackets were usually pretty good-quality articles of clothing. What's the issue in just WEARING it, if the wearer doesn't act like they're still the Hero of High School?
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#17
Using your HS graduation pic as your social media pic.
Lady Eowyn 4 weeks ago
I didn't attend my high school graduation, I stayed in my dorm. The principal - whom I told in advance I wouldn't be attending - hand delivered my diploma and an academic honors pin I had no idea I'd earned.
#18
You still have “beef” with people from High School. There isn’t a single person I can think of from my High School that I hated enough to think about negatively. Not even old bullies. We were kids, now we’re not, I just hope you’re the best person you can be.
Tabitha 1 month ago (edited)
Sometimes the best revenge is to live your best life and not waste your time thinking about the people who bullied you. That way, if you ever run into them, they make no indication of being genuinely sorry for their treatment of you, and they say something like, “I wonder what you must think about me”, you can honestly say, “I don’t think about you”. That is the ultimate cut you can make to someone like that, telling them they matter so little to you (and they crave the kick out of having a huge effect on their victims) that they never enter your thoughts at all.
Michael Largey 1 month ago (edited)
"Forgive your enemy, but remember the b*****d's name." - John f. Kennedy. The first to go from our class was racist, homophobic, entitled rich bully. The next was the doctor turned internet child predator. It's refreshing when your old classmates die in the right order.
TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 1 month ago
Read my comment, dude ended up dying a very unpleasant way several years ago. Don't know if it was överdose or alcohol but the people who knew him said his abdomen swelled up like a beach ball and was bright orangy/yellow. Something ate his liver up and fast
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TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 1 month ago
A dude in my class tried to k**l me after high school. I think I am well within my rights to still think pretty g*****n negatively about him and the other 3 guys he was with
Rick Murray 1 month ago
I wrote above that some people I'd never want to meet again. Thing is, I'd probably never know. I don't look like I looked then, so neither will they. And more importantly, I can't remember any of their names. Heck, I only remember a few notable teachers. Because I left school and that was that and, as I said above it was a boarding school so we didn't all live in the same place. I tried reaching out to some of my friends, but didn't get very far - too much distance. So I just let it drop and, well, and it all pretty much fizzled out of my life. The bad people that I forgot about instantly, and the ones I liked that never got back in touch. What was, was, and that's all it was. ;)
#19
Always talking about the past and despite being 30-40 yo trying to cling to youth.
Bored Sailor 1 month ago (edited)
I tried clinging to youth got to high, lost my grip and broke me back. That slingshot my to past my current age./s
#20
Adults who still bully others.
I think when people feel they're past their peak, they continue acting that way to stay (what they consider to be) the best version of themselves. Someone who still bullies thinks that being a bully was the happiest they'll ever be with themselves. The most fulfilled/satisfied they think they can attain. Which is sad, both in that I strongly disapprove, and that someone really sells their potential so short for most of their lives.
Tabitha 1 month ago (edited)
The only way a******s like that can feel good about themselves is to tear other, much better, and more successful, people down and make them feel bad about themselves. Misery loves company, and when it can’t find any, it tries really hard to create some.
nottheactualphoto 1 month ago
Thank you. That's the first thing I thought.
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 1 month ago
Those people often tend to end up in management. A director at a company I worked at liked to call himself a "provocateur", when in reality he was a massive narcissist bully who must have gleaned some sort of enjoyment tearing people down. Unfortunately I was far too down the totem pole to ever tell him what I thought, and that was basically: "If they f**k up once, it's on them; but if they f**k up twice it's on YOU; that's what being the Director means. Screaming at people when they make errors, or if you think they might have made errors but didn't bother to check first, is only a way to make people look for other jobs." Sadly for that company, quite a few of their talented managers bailed rather than put up with public dressing downs. There's no way you can tell me this guy wasn't the class bully.
#21
Stay at home mom to MLM grifter pipeline.
Breadcrumb. 1 month ago
Just wait, in the future when looking back, it's not going to look good for them.
#23
A divorce to their high school sweetheart and a messy fall out entirely publicised on facebook by the time they're 25.
bonus points for cringy stuff / "i'm better than you now" quotes and content definitely not aimed at their ex.
#24
Sticking with high school cliques at a 20 year reunion.
Michael Largey 1 month ago (edited)
I graduated high school in a class of 100, but I had taken all my classes with 20 of them and really didn't know many of the other 80. The class did have a reunion, but we 20 also had one of our own.
#26
Name your kids Bud and Kelly.
#27
They openly brag about or are too proud of HS athletic accomplishments.
Rick Murray 1 month ago
I have dyspraxia and am shortsighted (but that wasn't known at the time). I very nearly impaled the PE teacher with a javelin...and I wasn't even trying to aim for him. Does that count? In every other imaginable way, I absolutely súcked at anything athletic.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
I would say that that was absolutely an accomplishment, yes XD Of course, it was an accomplishment in clumsiness, but still an accomplishment XD (I'm teasing - you're one of my favorite Pandas - plus I'm clumsy af as well; for all I know it's from the same condition, just never diagnosed XD)
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Tucker Cahooter 1 month ago
Yeah, but how many other guys have scored four touchdowns in one game?
Did I say that out loud? 1 month ago
But look at the house he had as a shoe salesman , not too shabby.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 month ago
I find myself talking about my failures in some sports because they are more entertaining. I had some success in other sports, but there's nothing particularly interesting about the 100 meter butterfly. (If you survive it, that counts as a win.)
#28
Its been 2 yrs since my high school, and there’s this friend of mine in college who has dragged me to visit her school 7 times this year when I’ve not even visited mine once after it got over.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
As a high school teacher (mostly seniors), I got a lot of visits the first two years after they graduated, but there was a noticeable drop-off after that. I might not hear from them again until I got an invitation to their college graduation party or their wedding. (Oh, or if they needed a recommendation for grad school or employment.)
#29
This will only make sense if it’s happened to you, but when someone hasn’t seen someone else in years and still has them in the same “box” that they had them in during highschool so they treat them the exact same way they treated them in high school.
#31
Believing every single conspiracy theory they read online without a second thought.
#32
Probably not exactly what this is looking for, but:
Nerdy people who *never* matured beyond their highschool *I'm the bullied one* attitude. These people are overdramatic, dependent on social media, and are constantly starting fights, but then claim victimhood when people don't agree.
Like, dude, we are all nerds- you aren't special and we aren't here to raise you. Raise yourself or get professional help.
#34
Being a cop.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 month ago
Guy I went to school with and was friends with lives round the corner from me now and is a cop in the firearms unit (or whatever it's called in the UK). He was brash, loud, and funny, but also an above average student at school. He's a decent guy now, so I don't really understand this answer.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
It’s a little different in the U.S. The occupation tends to attract a lot of jerks. (Note: all cops are not jerks, so don’t lose your shît.)
Load More Replies... Norfolk and good 1 month ago (edited)
In my country (UK), and I'm sure in many others, being a police officer has good pay, pension and career progression. I know a lot of police officers who genuinely care about protecting others and making a positive difference in the community. I wouldn't want to do their job. Putting up with violent people, people hurling insults at you, attending the scene of an accident/m****r/s*****e, having to go to someone's house and tell them their loved one has been k****d.
Tabitha 1 month ago (edited)
Or more precisely, being THAT cop who has a vendetta against every teenager they come across, no matter if they’re a good kid or not—-unless, of course, they’re the Chief’s kid.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
Yeah, I live in a city with an actually-remarkably-decent-human-beings police force - I don't think EVERY police officer is a "hurr durr peaked in high school" person. It may be different in other areas of the US - I live in Southern California where were are remarkably laid-back in general and high school accomplishments aren't as big of a deal as they are in other (more rural) areas - but it's pretty weird to think that every single cop is a "peaked in high school" person.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
I first started dating my now-ex when I was 18 and he was 19. He didn't have a class ring, but one of those... I don't know what they're called, but they're little shield-shaped pendant things that are intended to be strung on a necklace? Anyway, he wasn't big into rings/jewelry in general, but his HS gave them free to graduating seniors who had been in an athletic club (I don't know how HS sports work, so I only have the vaguest notion of what that all means) and my ex was on the tennis club (he was too smol for basketball/football.) Me being the teenaged starry-eyed idiot I was back then - I asked him if I could have the shield-pendant and I wore it for YEARS (::massive cringe::) It's not like we were HS sweethearts and I never even WENT to HS myself (mom pushed me into college at 14) so in hindsight, I'm not sure why I wanted to wear it XD I stopped wearing it in my late 20s because I'd realized at that point what a controlling a-hole he was.
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Gingersnap In Iowa 1 month ago
I talked to a friend yesterday. She lives just outside of the small town where we went to highschool. She invited me to the big summer celebration of the town's founding bc there's a school wide reunion. I graduated in 1988 and haven't been physically in that town since I moved my Mom out and sold her house. I had a panic attack on the phone for an invite to something over 6 months away. I wasn't bullied nor did I bully, generally got along with everyone. But the thought of going back there and seeing anyone makes me sick to my stomach. I don't think 🤔 there's enough Xanax or therapy for me to go back.
Sally Moen 1 month ago
When you live in the same town you grew up in just because Because it's where you're always lived and you know everyone and they know you. That tells me you probably don't make a lot of new friends and if you moved you would lose that status you kept from high school. Do you stay, even if it makes sense for your career and your family
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
A girl from my childhood neighbourhood ended up: 1) living in a house across the street from the house she grew up in, where her parents still live; 2) becoming a teacher in our high school; and 3) marrying one of the teachers in our high school (and they met when she was his student.)
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 1 month ago
Went for an after work get together with some of the nursing staff on the early morning of 1st January 2000 (and how annoyed we all were that the world didn't implode). One of the women invited my mom and I, a gay guy with the dress sense of Elton John, and a little Filipino woman around to her flat. We were all déad tired, but her parents hated her and she was lonely and just wanted to play Monopoly with somebody, so we all went along and... basically fell asleep on the floor pretty quickly. When we woke up, she did us breakfast and she showed us around her flat, then we played Monopoly with her for a while before tidying ourselves up to go work that day too. In her bedroom, hanging from a clothes hanger hooked onto a large mirror, was a white blouse inside a grey pinafore dress. Her school uniform. She was nearly thirty. Ummm... She also had a pretty startling collection of Beanie Baby bears (remember when those were a 'thing'?).
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
I first started dating my now-ex when I was 18 and he was 19. He didn't have a class ring, but one of those... I don't know what they're called, but they're little shield-shaped pendant things that are intended to be strung on a necklace? Anyway, he wasn't big into rings/jewelry in general, but his HS gave them free to graduating seniors who had been in an athletic club (I don't know how HS sports work, so I only have the vaguest notion of what that all means) and my ex was on the tennis club (he was too smol for basketball/football.) Me being the teenaged starry-eyed idiot I was back then - I asked him if I could have the shield-pendant and I wore it for YEARS (::massive cringe::) It's not like we were HS sweethearts and I never even WENT to HS myself (mom pushed me into college at 14) so in hindsight, I'm not sure why I wanted to wear it XD I stopped wearing it in my late 20s because I'd realized at that point what a controlling a-hole he was.
Load More Replies... Gingersnap In Iowa 1 month ago
I talked to a friend yesterday. She lives just outside of the small town where we went to highschool. She invited me to the big summer celebration of the town's founding bc there's a school wide reunion. I graduated in 1988 and haven't been physically in that town since I moved my Mom out and sold her house. I had a panic attack on the phone for an invite to something over 6 months away. I wasn't bullied nor did I bully, generally got along with everyone. But the thought of going back there and seeing anyone makes me sick to my stomach. I don't think 🤔 there's enough Xanax or therapy for me to go back.
Sally Moen 1 month ago
When you live in the same town you grew up in just because Because it's where you're always lived and you know everyone and they know you. That tells me you probably don't make a lot of new friends and if you moved you would lose that status you kept from high school. Do you stay, even if it makes sense for your career and your family
SchadenFreudian Psychology 1 month ago
A girl from my childhood neighbourhood ended up: 1) living in a house across the street from the house she grew up in, where her parents still live; 2) becoming a teacher in our high school; and 3) marrying one of the teachers in our high school (and they met when she was his student.)
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 1 month ago
Went for an after work get together with some of the nursing staff on the early morning of 1st January 2000 (and how annoyed we all were that the world didn't implode). One of the women invited my mom and I, a gay guy with the dress sense of Elton John, and a little Filipino woman around to her flat. We were all déad tired, but her parents hated her and she was lonely and just wanted to play Monopoly with somebody, so we all went along and... basically fell asleep on the floor pretty quickly. When we woke up, she did us breakfast and she showed us around her flat, then we played Monopoly with her for a while before tidying ourselves up to go work that day too. In her bedroom, hanging from a clothes hanger hooked onto a large mirror, was a white blouse inside a grey pinafore dress. Her school uniform. She was nearly thirty. Ummm... She also had a pretty startling collection of Beanie Baby bears (remember when those were a 'thing'?).
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