I've known Annie since elementary school and as luck would have it when you start back-combing your hair and using a lot of hairspray to get your bangs to stick straight up in the air, she went the way of the popular crowd once she hit high school and hasn't seem to moved on. She now lives two doors down from me with her high school sweetheart that she married soon after.
Rodney was this chubby, slightly effeminate guy who was generally harmless but not really the most intriguing of people. Over the years, he has lost the weight, developed some sort of southern accent in which he uses to call everyone "darlin" and discovered that he prefers men after having been married and procreated once. I feel like such a guy whenever I talk to him. I think it's his overuse of the phrase "I love you" that brings out the guy in me. I don't know how to respond. I don't love him so I don't want to say it but it seems to be the thing to say right then rather than "thank you".
Through Annie's Facebook page, I learned that the popular crowd hasn't changed over the years. The foulmouthed lush with too much makeup on is, surprisingly, still a foulmouthed lush with too much makeup on...who Rodney befriended recently. This was the first of two shocks. Back in the day, any conversation between Stephanie and Rodney would not have taken place. In fact, Rodney would have been the butt of many jokes in the "senior lunchroom" where they all ate together. From the limited conversation I've been privy to on their Walls, it's painful to see him trying so much by saying how beautiful she still is and her lame responses about how hard it is to lose weight, etc.
The second shock came over the weekend when I spotted this little gem on his web page:
WHA?!? Alan S.?!? I feel like I'm in a Twilight Zone episode (and luckily I do look better in black and white than in colour). This was more than I could handle so I sent him a message asking if he was looking for redemption. His response: just being able to be an adult(or facsimilie [sic] thereof) about it. Even tho we weren't friends back then, it is nice to see how people are doing in their lives darlin.I hope he finds whatever he's looking for. There are only a couple more from that era that I hope to find one day but until then, I'll enjoy being the voyeur and thinking, "Geez, these people haven't changed."
Next up - The Facebook Experience: The College Years
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I am friends with lots of people on Facebook that I did not talk to or get along with in high school. People change a lot I think. There are still some people who I have no desire to "befriend" or even exchange messages with but there are others who have more than redeemed themselves in my eyes. In fact one guy that I am closest with via Facebook now, called me a fag at high school graduation and pretty much ruined the whole day for me, it's best to forgive and be open in most cases.
On the other side of that coin there are people on Facebook whom I was very close with in school and now want to have nothing to do. Say for example my faux-right wing ex girlfriend. Who still loves sex and drugs but uses Facebook as her personal pulpit believing that if she leads enough of her Facebook friends to her "lord" that he won't care about all her sins.
Just sayin'
I will not befriend a lot of people I went to high school with. I seriously don't want to deal with the drama. We weren't friends then, we aren't gonna be friends now.
Plus, I know all I need to know about the 30 people I graduated with from the small town gossips that I already talk to.
S! - Maybe I'm odd because I just think people are in our lives for a certain time. I really enjoyed my high school years and if I had to pick a year to go back to, I'd choose 1985 but everyone from that era would have to be there too. Once I left for college, I think I just sort of outgrew them other than the handful that are still left. I don't feel the urge to befriend them in Facebook to see how they are doing nor do I feel like sharing my life now with them. At a reunion, catching up verbally, sure.
Chica - Wow..that is a small town.
Not as small as a graduating class of eight though!
I actually kind of enjoyed seeing some of my old classmates that I never hung out with, all four of them. It neat to see how in some ways they changed and in others they hadn't.
WOW, just before checking in here, I received an invitation to join my high school class of '75 facebook group! After years of
not keeping up with anyone, I have recently reconnected with a couple of folks and that has been nice. BTW, my class was 750!
And I'd question any guy's sexuality who has a southern accent that calls folks darlin' That's what I except female hair stylists (not that I need them anymore) or waitresses to say!
Wow, 8 Ed?!?! That IS small! :)
I'd question any guy's sexuality who has a southern accent that calls folks darlin'
I wouldn't, Sage. My best guy friend is from Georgia and I've run the gammet from "hun" to "dear" to "darling."
And trust, me, I'm not questioning his sexuality.
Why, TC...that sounds like there is a story behind that comment. ;-)
Oh...and Sage...keep your eye out for a friend request from me. :-)
We had a slightly chubby, effeminate guy, too!
Eh, so I moved the slightly around a bit. So what? Close enough.
In other news, Glen Rice poured in 46 against me tonight. But I still won.
Bone - Let me know when you upgrade and get to play against Chris Webber or Jalen Rose.
PS: I hope Facebook: The College Years is better than Saved By The Bell: The College Years.
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