I’m moving to a new apartment at the end of this month, so I’ve been cleaning out, sorting, throwing away, packing, cleaning, etc. Today, I grabbed my high school yearbooks and I thought, “Well, I can just kind of glance through them really quick before I pack them up.”
…2 hours later…
I’ve been laughing out loud at some of the messages. Many of my friends included some inside jokes that I no longer understand (“let’s play some ‘bee!’), but some of them made me laugh as I remembered stuff I haven’t thought of in… 10 years (“we should start our own caribou farm safe from Wally’s hoof disease”). Some of them are too good not to share, so I’ve transcribed some of the finer messages which do not require insider knowledge. They’re just funny (most of them intentionally, others not so much).
SOPHOMORE YEAR
From a friend/cellist: ”Anne, for a viola player, you’re almost normal.”
JUNIOR YEAR
From the teacher I had a crush on: ”Anne, it was a true pleasure teaching. You were my best student ever.” [Swoon]
From the popular jock boy in my French class: ”Anne, you have sat next to me for a whole semester, and when I asked you for answers you would not give them to me. Instead you helped me understand how to do it myself. Thank you so much for believing in me this whole time. You have helped me the most in high school and that really means a lot to me. I know I probably didn’t thank you enough so THANK YOU for everything that you have done for me.” [Cue the after-school special music]
From a guy in Swing Choir: ”Anne (Kate) – Sorry about all the times that I called you by your sister’s name.” [Sadly, he was not the only person who wrote this message.]
From a good friend: ”Anne! Let me just tell you! Stay in school! Wahoo! It’s really too bad we didn’t drop out with 20 days left. Then we could have roamed the streets of Toronto and washed people’s windows.” [Still kind of sounds like a decent idea]
From the ADHD girl in the drama department: ”Hello Anne, no wait I can do better, HELLO ANNE (better), So how r u? Instead of boring you w/ the same old stuff that everyone writes ’cause we all know you will have a great summer, we all know you will be fine next year (maybe) so I am just going to tell you that you are great and hope we can hang out in the summer. Shine w/ a smile! Meowys, [name]” [...Yikes.]
SENIOR YEAR
From a good friend: ”We have a lot in common. It’s weird. In case you forget what a great person you are I’ll tell you. You’re pretty great. …My pants are falling down. Do you have a belt? You’re the kind of person that would carry around a belt. That’s what’s so great about you. That’s why I always come over to your house. You have stuff. You give it to me. That is why we will ALWAYS be friends. I hate going out to lunch with you but this summer we can have lunch. Let’s never stop having lunch. Years from now let’s have lunch. Forever lunch. Forever friends.” [Would you believe it? We still have lunch together occasionally.]
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