Were you popular in high school?

Ruthanne

Ruthanne

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I went to a middle class high school. My family couldn't afford to buy me all the fancy clothes like the other girls had. They hung around in cliques. I did have a few nice friends who had similar backgrounds to me. The really popular girls were of a higher income class than I and they shunned those unlike them. Well, what do I care, I still had some nice friends. I hardly went to school and really disliked it for many reasons. It wasn't all because of the girls.
 

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We had a two class school. IBM was the major employer in town. IBM kids and the merchant class were one level, then there were the farm kids and the blue collar children.
There was not much interplay between the two groups,and the town and school administration seemed to feel that all was proper.
 
Being popular was never a goal with me, I became more in demand when I thumped the star Q-Back my senior year for insulting my younger sister on registeration night.
 
Can you just clarify what age are 'High school' students. I went to secondary school from age 12-17 when I went to university.
School had a very strict uniform policy (this backfired during my time there and was relaxed) and at least, everyone looked the same and any social differences were not aparent.

Popular? We all had our friends at school and outside. It was outside school that social differences and class became aparent and there was more of a 'birds of a feather' culture.

(In later years, the school was merged with another local school and our principal dictated that we were not allowed to fraternise with the pupils from it. Didn't work for me - I've been married to one of them for 42 years!)
 
I was definitely not one of the "popular" kids, but neither was I unpopular. I think I just tried to get along within my peer group. Was never much interested in popularity. Didn't have many close friends. I would probably have been described as "nice guy, kind of a nerd, but don't know much about him."
 
Shy, socially awkward and bookish...one of those kids who cheered when Carrie zaps her classmates
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No, I was not. I couldn't get a date.
I was in love with the best looking girl in school (5 grades of high school had about 550 students - 76 in my graduating class). She was the homecoming queen, cheerleader, most admired, and all of that. All guys wanted to date her. I had no chance. She loved the rough, tough, tall, he-man types, such as John Wayne. She said one day in class that she was going to wait for someone like Rock Hudson to come along and sweep her off her feet. So I had to look somewhere else. Alas, they were all taken. I later found someone who would have me - she's 8 years younger than me.
 
Capt Lightning said:
Can you just clarify what age are 'High school' students. I went to secondary school from age 12-17 when I went to university.
School had a very strict uniform policy (this backfired during my time there and was relaxed) and at least, everyone looked the same and any social differences were not aparent.

Popular? We all had our friends at school and outside. It was outside school that social differences and class became aparent and there was more of a 'birds of a feather' culture.

(In later years, the school was merged with another local school and our principal dictated that we were not allowed to fraternise with the pupils from it. Didn't work for me - I've been married to one of them for 42 years!)
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I think from about age 14 or 15 to 17 or 18.
 
exwisehe said:
No, I was not. I couldn't get a date.
I was in love with the best looking girl in school (5 grades of high school had about 550 students - 76 in my graduating class). She was the homecoming queen, cheerleader, most admired, and all of that. All guys wanted to date her. I had no chance. She loved the rough, tough, tall, he-man types, such as John Wayne. She said one day in class that she was going to wait for someone like Rock Hudson to come along and sweep her off her feet. So I had to look somewhere else. Alas, they were all taken. I later found someone who would have me - she's 8 years younger than me.
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I congratulate you on your lucky escape! Sometimes the prize in the Cracker Jack box is a diamond ring. My wife was 6 years younger. She was quite literally my one and only forever girl. My very life. I miss her terribly.

( Rock Hudson turned out to be gay )
 
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I was always kinda the male 'Belle of the Ball".

No wait a minute that doesn't sound right does it ?.......kinda insinuates that I may have been a crossdresser don't it ?

Hmmm, although there was that one time that I......oh never mind.

Please disregard my post.
 
IKE said:
Girl, adorable doesn't even begin to describe me when I was all dolled up.

Picture Lurch from the Addams Family in a tube top, hot pants, stilettos, and black fishnets.
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...got an unbelievably "bad visual" on that!


Perhaps with a little touch of 'class', this instead:

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