[ckelly78z]

I didn't mind high school, I just wished I wasn't so timid around all the cute girls. I was a guy who could hang with the stoners in shop class, and had many jock friends who also played basketball/track, but I just was so self conscious, I couldn't approach girls, or even speak up in class. At 5'9" and 135 lbs, I was one of the smaller guys in my class. Now (32 years later) at 5'11 185 lbs, people still say i'm skinny...It wasn't until after high school, that I got confident.

My son is probably one of the jocks in his small high school, he's good looking, starts on the football team, lifts weights, and the same height and weight as me now, and he's only a Sophmore who will get his license next week. I do see him having problems with speaking more than a few words at a time like I did, but he has really cute girls hanging all over him....I think the whole cell phone/texting things helps him out, where I had to stand in a busy kitchen to talk to any girl on the phone when I lived at home.