REUNION 2007 WITH OLD FRIENDS - EMPHASIS ON OLD :-)

Just kidding Andie and Bonnie! Yesterday and today I had visitors from my past - it is October and that means the reunion of old friends. I met Andrea in Jr. High School and Bonnie in homeroom in high school. (Barker...Brower...Brown - you can see we were destined to be friends since we had to pledge the flag together for years!)
I admit it is sort of strange to watch us grow older, especially since we feel the same inside. High cholesterol and bad knees be damned! As usual the reunion was fun -lots of laughs and reminiscing.

Just for the heck of it, here are a few things you might not have known about me in High School.

SUSANS TOP ELEVEN HIGH SCHOOL FACTS

#11 I lost my gym clothes and had to share Andreas.
Now THATS a friend! Obviously we had gym different periods.

#10 High school girls in my day did NOT wear pantyhose
(they weren't invented yet)and instead we had to deal with
stockings and garter belts. And even worse,
the Playtex Living Girdle. These devices kept the teen pregnancy
rate very low since there was no easy way to slip out of the
unwieldy rubber which stuck to your body by way of the sweat trapped inside.

#9 No girls that I hung out with had their own cars.
Not very many boys did either. I took the BYB (big yellow bus) each day.
And if I missed the bus or had an after-school meeting, I walked home.
And it WAS a looong walk, and mostly UPhill all the way. No kidding!
No Moms carpooled in those days.

#8 I was in love with Ricky Nelson. (Not the Ricky who shakes his bonbon).
I wrote him a letter in Hollywood and told him if he ever got to Easton, PA
to give me a call. I know it was just a scheduling problem that kept him away.

#7 My first crush was on Charlie Ross, Varsity Basketball Hero.
He had not a clue that I existed. His class ring was around the neck of
MaryAnne The Head Cheerleader. I swooned everytime I passed him in the halls.

#6 At our school, before the first bell, we all walked the halls -
sort of a square track - I never wore my glasses hence could never
see anyone if they smiled or spoke. I was known as a snob. Or Ice princess.

#5 I always wanted to be a cheerleader and tried out every year,
to no avail.

#4 I was REALLY bad at Math. Got straight D's. My Dad tried to help
but ended up with the veins in his neck standing out after 15 minutes.
After that I had to get tutored by a retired Math teacher who had bad breath
and long nose hairs. Still got D's.

#3 My Mother's menopause and my nubility came at the same time.
She could have used a broom for transportation and I could have
used a ticket out of town.

#2 I always thought I was a lardo. I have had the occasion to see pictures
of me taken while in high school and I was just a normal, albeit flat-chested
teenager.

#1 I didn't do IT. Wish I had :-)

See you in October of next year old friends!!