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What did you and your friends do for fun in high school?

Asked at Massachusetts Street on April 20, 2008

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Photo of Emily Moisan

“One of my friends had a farm, so we would all go out there and run around in the corn fields, play tag and watch movies together.”

— Emily Moisan, research assistant, St. Charles, Mo.

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“We just walked everywhere around town and played the original Nintendo.”

— Stephen Spencer, systems administrator, Lawrence

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“We were all pretty much dorks. We would just hang around at each other’s houses and watch movies or go the park and sit around talking.”

— Lauren Sciara, server, Lawrence

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“Well, it was only a year ago, but we went to a lot of school events and would have get-togethers at our friends’ houses. We also like to come downtown and hang out or go shopping.”

— Katie Kisner, Kansas University freshman, Lawrence

Comments

faceit 5 years, 1 month ago

We had orgies, did lots of drugs, and drank huge volumes of alcohol...typical H.S, stuff OK, now that we have those three answers out of the way,..I think we're done with this question.

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notajayhawk 5 years, 1 month ago

Don't remember, I was usually drunk.

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Napoleon_Dynomite 5 years, 1 month ago

Practiced our skills. "Chicks dig guys with skills"

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notajayhawk 5 years, 1 month ago

Now, when I posted that last comment, there were two ahead of me - did le pull another here-again-gone-again act?

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sunshine_noise 5 years, 1 month ago

The big deal 40 years ago was skipping school for a day. So we would all pile in a car and drive to Ocean City, MD for the day. (I grew up on the East Coast). If we got caught most we'd get is a day of detention, because most of the teachers did the same thing when they were in school.

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maxcrabb 5 years, 1 month ago

Try to forget that we were in high school.

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Gareth 5 years, 1 month ago

Playing tag? In high school?Gotta love Kansas.

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RETICENT_IRREVERENT 5 years, 1 month ago

Gareth,Whats wrong with "tag"? It's a life-long game.I still play it today, and my high school period was 314 moons ago or so......Tag, your it.

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jonas 5 years, 1 month ago

We drank and did drugs, and then, when my parents put on regular UA tests after finding a pipe in my room, be and my last non-druggy jerk friend played pool constantly in lieu of being in chemically-altered states. I only tell you this so you won't feel bad when I beat you at pool.

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jonas 5 years, 1 month ago

put "me" on regular UA tests

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labmonkey 5 years, 1 month ago

Rollin' down the street, smokin' endo, sippin' on gin and juice, laid back, with my mind on my money and my money on my mind.

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dminear60 5 years, 1 month ago

Are you kidding? I am not putting "that" in print and have it come back to haunt me!

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killjoy 5 years, 1 month ago

designed roundabouts and traffic-calming devices for use in the future

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H_Lecter 5 years, 1 month ago

blindfolded lawndarts

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juscin3 5 years, 1 month ago

lol@lab's comment. Thanks, now the song is stuck in my head.Um, what did I do in HS for fun....uh, well, I rather not say, my parents might read this and die of a heart attack knowin that their lil angel wasn't an angel after all. Things are better left unsaid...

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gogoplata 5 years, 1 month ago

I drove trucks, broke arms, and arm wrestled.

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mom_of_three 5 years, 1 month ago

What I did for fun in high school? Rode horses, hung out, and stayed out of trouble, until we started dating. Then it became a different kind of fun. I can hear my kids say "ugh, yuk" right now.

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TheBurf 5 years, 1 month ago

Tuesday night, after basketball games...drunkFriday night, after basketball games....drunkSaturday night...drunk

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denak 5 years, 1 month ago

Sadly, I didn't have even half as much fun as some people obviously did or pretend to have had. The wildest thing we did was play miniture golf, bowl and hung out at each other's house. The only wild thing I can remember us doing is renting a hotel and drinking for the first time (well ok, the first time for some of us) right after graduation and right before I went to basic training. Dena

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JJE007 5 years, 1 month ago

I kept to myself at RocksHurt. I didn't like high school. Most of the kids in that "Prep" school simply prepped for their upcoming lifestyle. They raped and pillaged...in a tasteful and societally acceptable way, of COURSE!~) ...or of coarse...

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jumpin_catfish 5 years, 1 month ago

Stuff my mother never needs to know about!

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Pywacket 5 years, 1 month ago

Faceit (from 5:00 a.m.)~~ Hey! you must've been in high school when I was. We are really lucky to be here today. Drugs & booze were so matter-of-fact back then. There was no MADD, and the cops would just make you pour your booze out on the ground, then say, "You kids be careful getting home, now." If you were an honors student and never skipped school, your parents were none the wiser about what you were doing at night. We'd go to all the concerts (Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Doobie Bros, Aerosmith, REO, Kansas, ELP, Chicago, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Oak Arkansas, BTO, Jefferson Starship... tickets were cheap and we weren't particular--damn! we even went to Alice Cooper), and the air was thick with pot smoke. I didn't even smoke, but spent most of my high school years with a contact high, since all my friends did. We often drove out to the middle of nowhere at night and parked off the road by marshes to listen to frogs and watch the night sky and pass around bottles of cheap wine. Wonderful times, lying on the warm hoods of big Buicks & Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles, while the engines ticked, cooling down, and we solved the mysteries of the universe. If we were lucky, we'd see the Northern Lights.We did a lot of dumb, risky stuff, but we had a lot of good times that I wouldn't trade for anything.

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toe 5 years, 1 month ago

Worked hard, made good grades, and earned a good living.

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adriennerm 5 years, 1 month ago

Some of these post are really funny. Umm what did I do in high school...1. Shoplifted from Victoria Secret, only one time. Almost got caught had to run home. 2. Tried to drink with the "cool" crowd. Threw up and was teased about it for months and months3. Laughed so hard in ROTC, that I slobbed in my book. Got teased for a couple of days behind that4. Saw my first penis...we were in swim class and this boys swim trucks were very thin..that was the highlight of my year5. Cut class and went to McDonalds, mom decided to take a half day from work and caught me 6. Wore a nice white dress to the ROTC dance. While dancing, one of my breast fell out...they caught that on tape. Now i'm a big blur in the video7. Wore too much perfume, trying to impress this boy. The teacher made me take a shower in the locker room b/c I was killing everyone8. Wore bright red lipstick trying to impress the same boy, no one told me my lips looked like a bamboo's a$$all in all, I had wonderful High school years and wouldn't change anything

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lubyloo 5 years, 1 month ago

We hung out at the laudrymat. The only place near my high school that served prepared food (i.e., nachos, pizza, and calzones) was a laundrymat called "LaundryLand." They also had TVs at each individual laundry station, which was a plus. If you didn't have a car, that was where you hung out. I distinctly remember walking to LaundryLand with my friends singing "Ice Ice Baby." In retrospect, I'll bet that the people who went there actually to do laundry hated us -- especially if they heard our singing!

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Poon 5 years, 1 month ago

We would have wrestling matches on the hardwood floor during gym class hoping to impress the girls. Then the class would wait for someone to pull themselves up on the chin up bar. This person would get depantsed by some guy hoping to impress the girls. Then people would smash glass bottles in the shower and punch each other in the @#$%^ and kick each other in the &^%&( Then we would have wrestling matches in the boys room. We had to have spotters so nobody would accidentally crash into the urinals. All of these locker room/boys room stunts were done so guys would have stories to tell to try to impress the girls. Sometimes guys would group tackle a classmate, tie him up and throw him in the trash can in order to impress the girls. Then everybody would get into fistfights, hoping to impress the girls. Some guys would sneak up behind a girl and try to pull her scrunchie out of her hair, hoping to impress her. After school, everyone would do doughnuts on the school parking lot, hoping to impress the girls. Some guys would play the penis game in math class, hoping to impress the girls. We would sneak sodas into class so we would have something to drink (and bring a few extras for the girls, hoping to impress them).

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Godot 5 years, 1 month ago

We did things our parents told us not to do.

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Pywacket 5 years, 1 month ago

These are getting very entertaining as the day winds down. MD--I'm with you, I never heard of the penis game. Poon's post is very funny, though.And Lubyloo had a laundromat to hang out at near the school? Just to show you how the times change, back in the 70s, we had a head shop on the corner by our junior high. It was nice and dark in there, with beaded curtains and black light, and the air was thick with incense and Pink Floyd or Yes or Hendrix. (I don't care what anybody says, MD, our music was the best.)Another favorite hangout in my home town was this excellent greasy spoon restaurant. My mom's generation had hung out there when they were teens in the 50s. It was called Speed's and they had the best burgers, malts, & fries on the planet. Breakfast 24 hours a day. Place was filthy. Fights would break out at bar rush.. The owner (who named the place for his nickname) had about 5 locations around town, and the atmosphere was the same at all of them. They were open 24 hours a day and everybody went there. If you needed to use the bathroom, you had to walk through the kitchen and, like as not, you'd see some old cook sitting there on a stool, wearing a paper hat, smoking a cigarette, and peeling or cutting a gigantic mound of immense Idaho potatoes.You might see other employees horsing around, or somebody standing over a chili pot. I suppose somebody made a half-hearted attempt at washing the dishes, but they weren't too fanatical about it, and your shoes would stick to the floor as you walked.You didn't care what you saw in that kitchen, because you knew that those hand-cut French fries were touched by heaven, the malts (poured into your glass from silver mixer cups, then left at the table for you to pour the rest) would be thick and distinctively malty and have tiny ice crystals you could crush between your teeth, and that under the thin oil slick at the top of your china mug was the best coffee in town--probably in the whole state.

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jonas 5 years, 1 month ago

Multi, Pwy: Maybe there's a different penis game that Poon has heard of, but the one I knew is one person says penis, and the next person has to say it louder, and the next louder, etc, until someone forfeits, in which case they lose that round. I haven't ever been a part of one, so I'm not sure how well I'd actually do. My guess is not well.

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Poon 5 years, 1 month ago

Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says: Poon says:.Some guys would play the penis game in math class,:.You got me. I don't know that one.'fess up dude.Multi: Jonas is correct. What the guys in our class would do is try to determine who could say it the loudest without getting caught by the teacher. On rare occasions, if someone wanted out of class really bad, they would yell Peeeeeeeeennnnnnniiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssssss reallly loud.

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Poon 5 years, 1 month ago

Oh yeah, and how could I forget the guys who pulled the fire alarm on the last day of class when it was pouring with rain in order to impress the girls. I don't think anybody actually evacuated...

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