[Crowbob]

Not until a few years after graduation did I realize the faculty and administration treated me and my buddies very, very differently than the rest of the kids. I thought all the kids got rides home from the teachers and coaches, could skip classes, do reports on 'Astronomical Phenomenon' and read Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Vonnegut, Hemmingway, etc. Was always surprised and never could figure out how I got the grades I got.

Was totally oblivious to the crushes some of the then-hotties had for me. Never took the bus to or from school because the older jocks gave me rides.

Was in band, jazz band, played football (then cross country when everybody else kept growing bigger), ran track. Thought it was cool that we got unplugged at the talent show while doing a Stones medley. Almost had us a riot.

My entire senior year I took only two classes in the morning and sat the rest of the day on the bench in the main hallway goofing off with almost everybody and anybody who came by-students or faculty.

Complete and total blast ala Ferris Bueller as I think back on it. Wish I had known it at the time.