I ended up going to high school on a scholarship so there's a lot of rich kid, scions of people who make all their money in tech nonsense I had to put up with, but I spent most of my days listening to obscure music and smoking a ton of weed. There was a girl who was infamously known for not being smart, but she also supplied all the booze at the parties so nobody ever brought it up. She got into USC, somehow, and everyone thought something was up but didn't say anything, since, booze at parties. Later, that Varsity Blues thing happened, and it turned out that her and her sister's parents were one of the highest spenders in gaming the system, so they ended up getting perp walked by the cops in front of the whole school, which really put into perspective the weird little world I happened to be adjacent to.
Oh there was also a white kid (who was also student body president) who tried out a rap career, and the terrible track leaked and it spread all over, to the point of blaring it over the speakers at prom, I don't know if I have a copy but it was hysterical to hear in a fancy hotel ballroom.
Apr 27, 2024
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After growing up in the LBC (would have attended a 4000-person / 3 grade high school)
I ended up going to high school in a little rural/farming community in Oregon that didn't even have 4000 people living in it. It's a long story re: how I got there.
It was a little bit like "Footloose" in this town. Kids made their own fun, there wasn't a helluva lot going on there. A lot of students took Shop class and hung out in that (grimy) building.
Senior year, someone had their little import car (Honda, I think?) partially disassembled and then reassembled INSIDE the building. I think it happened over a weekend and we showed up on Monday and.... there was a Honda parked in senior hall. Our graduating class had maybe 150 kids so everyone knew whose it was.
I think they ended up having to tear the doors off the hinges in a few different hallways to get it back out again. We all got a lecture at some senior night thing or another about respecting school and each other's property, with the idea being that if someone would just come forward and admit it, there would be less trouble. I don't remember anyone snitching or actually getting in trouble. The car belonged to someone on rally and I have no idea how they didn't figure out it was missing or if they were in on it somehow.
There were some great photos floating around, all pre-smartphone era.
Pure small-town dumbassery. Someone there has probably dined out on this story for decades now.
Apr 27, 2024
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this one super annoying bratty kid at my school made some disparaging remarks about another kidās mom who had died recently of cancer. the other kid caught wind and one night after a football game when everyone had convened at the local whataburger, he called the bratty kid out to the parking lot to talk to him face to face like a man or something. the bratty kid was so afraid of getting beaten up that he got on his knees and pleaded for mercy and was kissing the ground at the other kidās feet. I think he still took a few punches, but the humiliation that resulted when the video of the incident circulated the school probably hurt way more.
oh also one kid rapped into his voice memos app over a youtube instrumental he played from his laptop speakers and he said the n-word pretty liberally. he was super white, I think he got a lacrosse scholarship to Duke or something. the recording got passed around the school and think I still have it in my old google drive somewhere
edit: I do ^, listener discretion advised
Apr 26, 2024
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in retrospect this isnāt that big of a deal but i went to a very small boarding school of about 500 girls in a very small, conservative town where literally nothing happens and everyone knows everything about EVERYONE, so this was a big thing for US, but might not be for many.
so there was this new girl that joined the school in grade 9, and she joined my homeroom class and was pretty nice. she was a little off beat, but for the most part everything seemed pretty okay and normal. we ironically started calling each other ābest friendā until we eventually became friends.
she was a big spender. sheās buying at the tuckshop at break, after school, before school like every day. and mind you, we are boarders, most of us get a small allowance every month to go to town, to order food, buy essentials etc. i know the allowance of most people was not enough to buy from the tuckshop everyday. and i just thought damn, this girl must be rich rich.
people quickly picked up on this though, and started asking her for money at the tuckshop. myself included. from grades 9-11 i used to be a tuckshop hustler (a damn good one at that!), like ask everyone for R2 until i had enough to buy a meal. but this girl would either just buy you the meal or just give out R10, R20, R50. and this id a lot of money! when business was slow iād settle for a packet of chips and juice and that would come to about R8, the cheapest meal was a chip roll and that was about R13 and the most expensive was a wrap which was around R25 (if i remember correctly.)
so sheād just give out this money to MULTIPLE people throughout the day. i genuinely thought she was a BALLER! she had told me that she was switching schools, i donāt remember why, but she ended up leaving later that year. it was only AFTER she left that i heard that she used to steal peopleās money.
so in her hostel they used to have sleepovers on the weekends and every week it was a different room. she would (allegedly) go to these sleepovers and steal peopleās money. i also found out that my class had chipped in money to buy me a gift, (birthdays were very big at our school and i had the first birthday in my class). turns out she stole it too!
this is very underwhelming, but like just imagine this playing out like in an episode of derry girls yk
Apr 28, 2024
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