Ah, for us in high school, we were allowed to eat off-campus. So it was the doughnut shop, Burger Broil, the local pizza joint, and my fav, the bowling alley (this is where I spent much of my aforementioned can money, avoiding lousy cafeteria food). For lunch I would usu. get the double bacon burger and chili cheese fries, with a soda or nonalcoholic near-beer--all the salt and grease I could eat for under five bucks--and watch my pal Josh and this cute little piece he was seeing at the time shoot a quick game of pool in the back. Or, occasionally my mother would drop by school with a takeout order from the Chinese place up the road, and we'd sit in the car and split a
double happy in the parking lot... Or we'd go to this barbecue place we knew, which was both close by and cheap. Mom liked the food, but I found the meat so ropy you could re-string a tennis racket with it. Also, the place was closed on Mondays. Why is this? The local 'cue joint does the same thing. Is Monday universally unofficially recognized as the pork-man's holiday, or something?
Oh, and there was a video place across the street from the restaurant, so we'd stop and rent a few tapes for later that evening--both family fare and horror flicks, and usu. the ones that came in installments, like
Friday the 13th,
Nightmare on Elm Street,
Basket Case, and the original
I Spit on Your Grave--not that remake/reboot crap. In the days before streaming, it was truly a big deal to be the first kid in your social circle to see the latest release just as soon as it hit the VHS place.
We were PEAK teenagers. Always hung out with this group of friends and occasionally we'd meet other groups there. There was this one boy, "the bad boy" that we all had a crush on.
So did any of you cowgirls end up with that stallion, or is he the one that got away? Just hope none of you were one of those girls who got pregnant when she was fifteen... it's like, you see her in Spanish class, note how big she's gotten, and think "Cripes, hope her water doesn't break between the"
antes de la clase" and "¿
como te llamas?"
