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Homecoming
Oct. 1st, 2011 09:40 amIt's Homecoming here, and it's a Big Deal. On Thursday the kids walked over to the high school for the pep rally, on Friday they got out early to watch the parade, and all of them were wearing Tigers t-shirts.
Naturally this has me looking back fondly on Homecomings past, even though it was never such a big deal at our school as it is here. In sophomore year, bored with traditional Homecoming, we banded together and elected Cynthia to the homecoming court as a joke. Someone made the mistake of telling our English teacher about it, and she got very concerned, because no one explained (because we thought it was obvious) that the joke was not on Cynthia but on "people who care about Homecoming."
It was an honest mistake. I don't think the teachers ever really got Cynthia's place in the social hierarchy. She was never really part of a group and so maybe looked like an outcast; but almost everyone loved her because she was so funny. She just didn't join a group because she hated everybody. But she hated us hilariously, and you can get away with anything if you're funny about it.
We repeated this trick junior year, but not senior year because my friends decided that taking the Homecoming Court away from the quote unquote "popular people," who presumably actually cared about it, was perhaps a bit mean. So we kindly refrained from politicking, and only elected two of the geek girls to the Homecoming senior court of five.
Naturally this has me looking back fondly on Homecomings past, even though it was never such a big deal at our school as it is here. In sophomore year, bored with traditional Homecoming, we banded together and elected Cynthia to the homecoming court as a joke. Someone made the mistake of telling our English teacher about it, and she got very concerned, because no one explained (because we thought it was obvious) that the joke was not on Cynthia but on "people who care about Homecoming."
It was an honest mistake. I don't think the teachers ever really got Cynthia's place in the social hierarchy. She was never really part of a group and so maybe looked like an outcast; but almost everyone loved her because she was so funny. She just didn't join a group because she hated everybody. But she hated us hilariously, and you can get away with anything if you're funny about it.
We repeated this trick junior year, but not senior year because my friends decided that taking the Homecoming Court away from the quote unquote "popular people," who presumably actually cared about it, was perhaps a bit mean. So we kindly refrained from politicking, and only elected two of the geek girls to the Homecoming senior court of five.
