Still Just Kids After All

[Unkotare]

Teenagers always want to act older than they really are, but I appreciate those moments when they forget the image they are trying to project and just let themselves be kids. Somehow or other (I think it was from an assignment in someone's ELA class) the students in my last period class got it in their heads to fashion paper crowns and crown the "Kind and Queen" of various categories among the students in the class. "Tallest and shortest," "funniest," "best hair," "smartest," etc. I had a full lesson plan all set for them but they begged me to let them do their "crowning" first. Softy that I am, I let them go ahead. Within minutes this room full of kids were really acting like kids. They had a great time. Even the shy, sullen types (with one or two exceptions) came around and joined in the fun. They had been studying hard all day (all quarter actually) and it was nice to see them unwind harmlessly a little bit. They had so much fun the crowning took up the whole period.

We'll get back to work tomorrow.

 

[sealybobo]

Teenagers always want to act older than they really are, but I appreciate those moments when they forget the image they are trying to project and just let themselves be kids. Somehow or other (I think it was from an assignment in someone's ELA class) the students in my last period class got it in their heads to fashion paper crowns and crown the "Kind and Queen" of various categories among the students in the class. "Tallest and shortest," "funniest," "best hair," "smartest," etc. I had a full lesson plan all set for them but they begged me to let them do their "crowning" first. Softy that I am, I let them go ahead. Within minutes this room full of kids were really acting like kids. They had a great time. Even the shy, sullen types (with one or two exceptions) came around and joined in the fun. They had been studying hard all day (all quarter actually) and it was nice to see them unwind harmlessly a little bit. They had so much fun the crowning took up the whole period.

We'll get back to work tomorrow.

I should have won best body my senior year but all the girls REFUSED to let me win it. I was already too cocky. So Joe W won it. What a joke. He had a nice tennis body. I was Metro Detroit Powerlifting Champ, weighed 155 and was ripped to shreds. I deserved it but the girls running the votes made sure I didn't. Can you believe that? It's true. I would have gotten too arrogant had I won that. It's probably best I didn't.

Funny, I never realized how great I looked. Even in my best shape I felt like I had a gut. And I was a freakin Greek GOD!

You know which one I won? Class mouch. That one I totally deserved. My parents would never give us money to buy lunch. Either make a tuna or p&j sandwich. That's it. So I would stand behind the cashier when kids were paying for their lunches and I'd mooch their change till I had enough for lunch.

When I was wrestling I didn't eat lunch so I mooched enough money to buy a moped. $80. My parents were fucking cheap!

 

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[sealybobo]

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Class mooch is not a brag.

 

[Meister]

I should have won best body my senior year but all the girls REFUSED to let me win it. I was already too cocky. So Joe W won it. What a joke. He had a nice tennis body. I was Metro Detroit Powerlifting Champ, weighed 155 and was ripped to shreds. I deserved it but the girls running the votes made sure I didn't. Can you believe that? It's true. I would have gotten too arrogant had I won that. It's probably best I didn't.

Funny, I never realized how great I looked. Even in my best shape I felt like I had a gut. And I was a freakin Greek GOD!

You know which one I won? Class mouch. That one I totally deserved. My parents would never give us money to buy lunch. Either make a tuna or p&j sandwich. That's it. So I would stand behind the cashier when kids were paying for their lunches and I'd mooch their change till I had enough for lunch.

When I was wrestling I didn't eat lunch so I mooched enough money to buy a moped. $80. My parents were fucking cheap!

 

[sealybobo]

And honestly, I didn't even know I was cocky. I was a Greek God, literally, and had just as much insecurities as everyone else. It wasn't until I made friends with the two biggest studs in the school that I learned how to pick up women. Of course it was easy for them. Little did I know a lot of those girls would have fucked me but thought I was too "cocky".

I remember I was a virgin and a senior. One girl wrote another girl a note and she shared it with me. The girl said she'd love to date me but I seem like a "pump and dump" kind of guy. Kind of hard to be that when you're a virgin. For the record, I got laid for the first time that summer, right before I went off to college. THANK GOD I didn't go to college a virgin.

I'm telling you, I'm not a bad looking guy, especially when I'm in top shape. But I think girls know the difference between a pretty boy and a decent looking muscular guy. Those pretty boys get all the girls. And being cocky didn't stop them.

I love my nephews attitude. He got tons of women at Michigan State. Saw it with my own eyes. He said, "uncle Sealybobo, I'm not the tallest guy on campus, I'm not the best looking, I'm not the most athletic, I'm not the richest, the smartest, but I'm perfectly right in the middle of where you want to be. I agree. He is. Of course who doesn't want to be 6 foot tall. But 5'10 isn't bad. Not if you are 5'7.

 

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This thread has gone ridiculously off topic.