1. DID YOU DATE SOMEONE FROM YOUR SCHOOL? For a very short time during my junior year. Billy Priddis. If you've followed the BYU/Utah games for a long time, you may have heard of him. He was the Utah cheerleader that beat the crud out of a BYU fan. (I think it was in 1999 or so. I wasn't dating him at the time, but the guy I was dating also knew him from high school and cut out all the newspaper articles about the incident for me to put in my scrapbook.) I also dated 3 other guys from my high school after high school. Here's a little news bit I found: "In 1999, a BYU fan leaped out of the stands and tackled a Utah cheerleader during the game in which the Utes were leading and eventually won. The cheerleader responded by tackling his attacker and landing several punches before security officers intervened and ended the fracas." Yep, high school boyfriend.
2.WHAT KIND OF CAR DID YOU DRIVE? My parents' minivan--a Nissan Quest, and their old Toyota Camry.
3. DID YOU PASS YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE TEST YOUR FIRST TRY? Yes, but I missed all 6 points on parallel parking. I still can't do it worth a darn.
4. WERE YOU A PARTY ANIMAL? If playing board games and watching movies is considered partying. So, no.
5. WERE YOU CONSIDERED A FLIRT? Absolutely I was.
6. WERE YOU IN BAND, ORCHESTRA, OR CHOIR? I was in band and orchestra. It was cool to be in choir at my school, so naturally I wasn't involved.
7. WERE YOU A NERD? See above answer. Band geek. Hello! (But not really bookish.)
8. WERE YOU ON ANY VARSITY TEAMS? Oh, that's funny. Have you seen me do anything athletic?
9. DID YOU EVER GET SUSPENDED/EXPELLED? Please see the answer to #7.
10. CAN YOU STILL SING THE FIGHT SONG? I don't know if I can remember the words, but I bet I can still play it on my piccolo.
11. WHO WERE YOUR FAVORITE TEACHERS? Mr. Jackson, my calculus teacher, because he never made me feel dumb, even though I had no idea what he was talking about half the time, and Ms. Bodily, my English teacher, because she remembered my name and tried to come to all my recitals in college.
12. WHERE DID YOU SIT FOR LUNCH? By the lockers near the band room, but NOT in the band room. I wasn't that big of a band geek. There was a good view of Hot Guy that ate down the hall from there.
13. WHAT IS YOUR SCHOOL'S FULL NAME? Mountain View H.S.
14. WHAT IS YOUR SCHOOL'S MASCOT AND COLORS? Bruins, cardinal red and gold
15. DID YOU GO TO HOMECOMING AND WITH WHO? Brian Mecham, junior year, and as an alumni with Scott Watson (who is 1 1/2 feet taller than me).
16. IF YOU COULD GO BACK AND DO IT AGAIN WOULD YOU? Absolutely not.
17. WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER MOST ABOUT GRADUATION? I fell asleep after I walked, because I was #15 or something out of like 800 people. I woke up in time to clap for my friends that were at the end.
18. WHERE DID YOU GO SENIOR SKIP DAY? Lagoon, and it was super cold and rainy. I insisted on wearing shorts and sandals because it was May, for crying out loud, and ended up with blue feet and frozen knees. Stupid.
19. WERE YOU IN ANY CLUBS? I think I was in DECA, but I got in all the clubs' pictures so my name would be in the index of the yearbook a million times. I was a nerd.
20. HAVE YOU GAINED SOME WEIGHT SINCE THEN? I think I've doubled in size.
21. WHO WAS YOUR PROM DATE? Keith Phelps.
22. ARE YOU PLANNING ON GOING TO YOUR 10 YEAR REUNION? I didn't know about it until after the fact.
23. DID YOU HAVE A JOB IN HIGH SCHOOL? I worked at Bandit's Texas Barbecue my senior year, and did yard work for my grandpa.
Thanks, Jackie, for giving me something to blog about. It's kind of fun to think about those days, but not actually be living them. I'll tag anyone who's interested. Here's a picture from my Prom senior year. Yes, that's a bow on my butt, and yes, I'm wearing white heels. I need to add that my friend's mom made that dress in 2 days for me. I wasn't expecting the bow on the butt, but you don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I had some pretty funny pictures to choose from that had some pretty great outfits, but I decided to choose the one from the best date I went on in high school. Thanks, Keith. (I have some great high school date stories. I'll tell you some time. The Prom my junior year involved a spraying hose that I detached from the fountain with my heel. The evening ended with the principal mopping up a huge puddle in his tux. Good story.)
4 comments:
Awesome! Nice looking date! You look so pretty! But band geek, really? We probably wouldn't have been friends in HS.
Looking good Rachel. You have a good memory. You shouldn't be so hard on us. We called ourselves band geeks in our own "click" sort of way. :) But I think my car accident during Preference still takes the cake. :)
I don't know. The car wreck was bad, but at least it wasn't in front of the entire school! :) I still remember Mr. Billings diving for the hose in his tux. Thanks to you, Rachel, that is a prom that NOBODY will forget!
I think the car wreck and the exploding fountain were different types of disastrous dates. The "I'm so glad no one got hurt/died" kind, and the "I want to die of embarrassment and please don't put this in the yearbook" type. Keith happened to be my date for the car wreck date, too. He wasn't my date for the exploding fountain episode, but he did point out that there was no fountain the following year, when he was my date, where he said, "let's dance where the fountain you blew up was!" It helped me laugh about it. The third type of disastrous date is the kind where you are stuck all day with a weirdo (skiing disaster of 1996). I've had all three types. The third type was the most common.
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