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High School Through The Glass Bottle
Sitting and watching the latest drama unfold on ‘Laguna Beach', I started to think of my high school life as a whole. I slowly pull the glass bottle to my lips and take a small sip of the carbonated green apple flavored soda. That’s when it all makes perfect sense. High school life, which is overplayed and dramatized and viewed religiously by me, is like Jones Soda, a privately owned company’s soft drink product which I drink religiously. The flavors, types, fan input, and the overall effectiveness of the soda are almost to a tee like the four years one faces in high school.
Every high school has them. They were made popular and were named a few years earlier by the movie ‘Mean Girls'. What am I hinting at? The cliques. For instance, the popular cheerleaders, and the jocks that date them. What about those sexually active band nerds? The sci-fi club nerds and the drama geeks are also cliques. Some people avoid said cliques and become the universal student, but rarely have a strong distinct personality. This being said the cliques become the different types of Jones Sodas. The popular kids represent the Jones Soda in Glass Bottles because of their fame and iconic glory.
People see them in the store and become curious as to what they really are. The fans of Jones can even submit photos to be put on the labels. Some fans are even lucky enough to have their "fortunes" be put under the metal cap. This fan input is a lot like the girlfriend/best friend input many students have. You wouldn’t buy a cute skirt without first asking your friends if it was right for you, would you? In this way the photos that become chosen by fan votes and the skirt bought at the mall that got the full approval of a group of friends are identical. The fan input is for everyone, well almost everyone. Who cares about the lowest of the lowest clique in high school?
The freshman and other little nuisances that plague the high school halls are just asking to be the butt end of so many pranks and jokes. They walk around, some acting superior and others acting scared. These easy, convenient targets are perfect for stories and other examples. They also become the monkey for new classes and tests. We push them and shove them out of our way when we become the upperclassmen. Some people even go so far as to throw handfuls of pennies at them. They’re just the perfect height and weakness for target practice. Can we say the same for the Jones Soda Cans?
The cans are so convenient for various things. You can’t really carry around a glass bottle, glowing in pure beauty, without the risk of ruining it. That’s where the cans come in. They can be stuffed in lockers, bags, pockets, and any other place a regular sized can of soda can be shoved. These cans are also perfect for testing. Ask a friend to try the new Zero Calorie Black Cherry or mix and match the Berry Lemonade with the famous Green Apple for a new flavor, Green Lemonade. The cans and the freshman thus share a convience factor and testing possibilities.
What about the foreign exchange students? Or those memorable transfer students? The students that only appear for a few months and teach us valuable lessons. A lot of the time we give these students awesome nicknames like “Frenchy” or “Zimbabwe.” They overcome their limits and learn how to fit in a complex place. High school is already full of ego and drama; why not throw in a hot foreign boy to stir things up? Taking another sip of my soda it hits me like a tidal wave.
Those awesome students are the Limited Editions! Jones Soda is famous for their strange flavors but even more known for their love of crazy holiday flavors! Ever hear of Turkey & Gravy Soda? Well, that was Jones Soda’s crazy idea for Thanksgiving. The flavors can be really gross like their Thanksgiving Stuffing Soda with real chunks of stuffing or amazingly great like their Love Potion #6 that left you feeling love struck. Unlike the normal flavors they aren’t around forever and teach us that not everything makes the greatest soda. Can the foreign exchange students, who aren’t around forever, and crazy sodas, that aren’t sold forever, be one in the same? I believe so.
When people speak of high school do they not say that famous phrase, “It was the greatest,” or in some cases, “the worst four years of my life?” Taking a final gulp of the green liquid, I agree. My four years are almost up and I’ve had my ups and downs but so far they’ve been the greatest years of my life. Images of laughter and parties dance around in my head. With every memorable line that my friends or teachers have said to me, I could write a million books of quotes. The experiences I’ve had in these hollow halls are something I’ll remember forever. They’ll never break down like the glass of the bottle that carries the carbonated pop.
Jones Soda is certainly memorable. How many times have you seen Pineapple Upside Down Soda and not remembered it? The images of my high school life are like those on the bottles. The images aren’t the best photography in the world but they’re perfect in everyway. Under each bottle cap is a phrase, like the ones my friends have spoken to me in wisdom, and I remember them well. Fortunes like,"You'll be recieving some good news tomorrow." or suggestions like,"Turn off your phone!" Not everyone experiences high school the same way and not everyone will love Jones Soda the way I do. But one thing is certain. In the end, that glass bottle is still there, collecting dust on a shelf or on a sandy beach of our memories. High school is that glass bottle.The only thing that can make one break it down is death.
Jones Soda is a memorable soda full of variety and power. Something that leaves us with stories to tell and laughter to be had. The goblet isn’t forever full and must come to an end. High school lives in the same way. It leaves us with memories we can either hug or hate. Stories of pranks or games we played will be shared around the campfire for years to come. But like the Jones, it must end. I look back at the TV screen and then at the empty glass. The photo on the bottle smiles up at me and I smile back. My high school life is like this Green Apple Soda, perfect and full of fizzy bubbles that make me laugh and cough.
Sitting and watching the latest drama unfold on ‘Laguna Beach', I started to think of my high school life as a whole. I slowly pull the glass bottle to my lips and take a small sip of the carbonated green apple flavored soda. That’s when it all makes perfect sense. High school life, which is overplayed and dramatized and viewed religiously by me, is like Jones Soda, a privately owned company’s soft drink product which I drink religiously. The flavors, types, fan input, and the overall effectiveness of the soda are almost to a tee like the four years one faces in high school.
Every high school has them. They were made popular and were named a few years earlier by the movie ‘Mean Girls'. What am I hinting at? The cliques. For instance, the popular cheerleaders, and the jocks that date them. What about those sexually active band nerds? The sci-fi club nerds and the drama geeks are also cliques. Some people avoid said cliques and become the universal student, but rarely have a strong distinct personality. This being said the cliques become the different types of Jones Sodas. The popular kids represent the Jones Soda in Glass Bottles because of their fame and iconic glory.
People see them in the store and become curious as to what they really are. The fans of Jones can even submit photos to be put on the labels. Some fans are even lucky enough to have their "fortunes" be put under the metal cap. This fan input is a lot like the girlfriend/best friend input many students have. You wouldn’t buy a cute skirt without first asking your friends if it was right for you, would you? In this way the photos that become chosen by fan votes and the skirt bought at the mall that got the full approval of a group of friends are identical. The fan input is for everyone, well almost everyone. Who cares about the lowest of the lowest clique in high school?
The freshman and other little nuisances that plague the high school halls are just asking to be the butt end of so many pranks and jokes. They walk around, some acting superior and others acting scared. These easy, convenient targets are perfect for stories and other examples. They also become the monkey for new classes and tests. We push them and shove them out of our way when we become the upperclassmen. Some people even go so far as to throw handfuls of pennies at them. They’re just the perfect height and weakness for target practice. Can we say the same for the Jones Soda Cans?
The cans are so convenient for various things. You can’t really carry around a glass bottle, glowing in pure beauty, without the risk of ruining it. That’s where the cans come in. They can be stuffed in lockers, bags, pockets, and any other place a regular sized can of soda can be shoved. These cans are also perfect for testing. Ask a friend to try the new Zero Calorie Black Cherry or mix and match the Berry Lemonade with the famous Green Apple for a new flavor, Green Lemonade. The cans and the freshman thus share a convience factor and testing possibilities.
What about the foreign exchange students? Or those memorable transfer students? The students that only appear for a few months and teach us valuable lessons. A lot of the time we give these students awesome nicknames like “Frenchy” or “Zimbabwe.” They overcome their limits and learn how to fit in a complex place. High school is already full of ego and drama; why not throw in a hot foreign boy to stir things up? Taking another sip of my soda it hits me like a tidal wave.
Those awesome students are the Limited Editions! Jones Soda is famous for their strange flavors but even more known for their love of crazy holiday flavors! Ever hear of Turkey & Gravy Soda? Well, that was Jones Soda’s crazy idea for Thanksgiving. The flavors can be really gross like their Thanksgiving Stuffing Soda with real chunks of stuffing or amazingly great like their Love Potion #6 that left you feeling love struck. Unlike the normal flavors they aren’t around forever and teach us that not everything makes the greatest soda. Can the foreign exchange students, who aren’t around forever, and crazy sodas, that aren’t sold forever, be one in the same? I believe so.
When people speak of high school do they not say that famous phrase, “It was the greatest,” or in some cases, “the worst four years of my life?” Taking a final gulp of the green liquid, I agree. My four years are almost up and I’ve had my ups and downs but so far they’ve been the greatest years of my life. Images of laughter and parties dance around in my head. With every memorable line that my friends or teachers have said to me, I could write a million books of quotes. The experiences I’ve had in these hollow halls are something I’ll remember forever. They’ll never break down like the glass of the bottle that carries the carbonated pop.
Jones Soda is certainly memorable. How many times have you seen Pineapple Upside Down Soda and not remembered it? The images of my high school life are like those on the bottles. The images aren’t the best photography in the world but they’re perfect in everyway. Under each bottle cap is a phrase, like the ones my friends have spoken to me in wisdom, and I remember them well. Fortunes like,"You'll be recieving some good news tomorrow." or suggestions like,"Turn off your phone!" Not everyone experiences high school the same way and not everyone will love Jones Soda the way I do. But one thing is certain. In the end, that glass bottle is still there, collecting dust on a shelf or on a sandy beach of our memories. High school is that glass bottle.The only thing that can make one break it down is death.
Jones Soda is a memorable soda full of variety and power. Something that leaves us with stories to tell and laughter to be had. The goblet isn’t forever full and must come to an end. High school lives in the same way. It leaves us with memories we can either hug or hate. Stories of pranks or games we played will be shared around the campfire for years to come. But like the Jones, it must end. I look back at the TV screen and then at the empty glass. The photo on the bottle smiles up at me and I smile back. My high school life is like this Green Apple Soda, perfect and full of fizzy bubbles that make me laugh and cough.