[Crowbob]

My high school was brand new as a result of white flight out of Detroit. As such, there were two primary groups: a buncha 'rich kids' whose parents were mid-level auto execs, parts dealers, small business owners, etc. on one side and the long-term locals consisting of small-town agricultural types on the other. They were called 'farmers'. The 'hoods' gravitated toward the farmer side because they didn't have much money. The 'jocks' did sports.

Of course there was a lotta overlap. I seemed to switch around depending on the season and who happened to be giving me rides to school. I was in band (which had its own category), a jock, a hood in the off season, had to work for spending money (farmer) and spent a lot of time with a girl whose father was a big-shot in the recording and concert promo industry. She actually saw the Beatles in concert. Her dad would come home with a stack of concert tickets and we'd choose which concertS to go to FoRFREe!

Interesting times. I was special but nobody told me.