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Superpowers
There comes a time in every high school student’s life when he becomes a junior. Junior, the class only inches away from being a senior and miles away from lowly freshman or sophomores. One of the most prevalent icons of upperclassmanship is the letter jacket. While being an upperclassman doesn’t guarantee a letter jacket, a letter jack does guarantee that the person is an upperclassman and is, therefore, in the eyes of underclassman, due a certain amount of respect.
A letter jacket is the superhero cape of the upperclassmen. Several super-upperclassman powers can be observed at work around the wearer of the letter jacket. One of the most useful superpowers of the jacket is the force field that the jacket generates in a 3 ft radius around the wearer in order to repel underclassmen. Unfortunately, large amounts of underclassmen can overload the field, like the main hall between periods, for example, and the wearer will be overrun by mobs of people anyway.
Another of the superpowers that the jacket grants the user is that of locker-area clearance. Underclassmen within 2 lockers of yours will wait for you to finish before they pack; some underclassmen have even been observed to stop unlocking their locker and back away from it in order to accommodate a jacket-wearer who has arrived at the lockers after the underclassman.
The letter jacket also provides wearers with a cloaking ability. The jacket provides cloaking on two levels. Firstly and more obviously, the wearer may blend in with other jacket wearers and go unnoticed in a crowd of guys. Secondly and more practically, the person wearing the jacket may use it to conceal his utility belt, or rather lack thereof, and hide any portion of his uniform that may not necessarily be tucked in.
In order to complete the ensemble, each junior is later equipped with the quintessential symbol of class unity, the class ring. Although the ring is not inscribed with elvish runes, does not, even in groups of 5, possess the power to summon blue pollution-fighting superheroes, cannot transform anyone into either a bucket of water or elephant, and cannot create anything green OR yellow, the class ring does function as the upperclassmen melee weapon of choice, insuring that many an underclassman receives an adequate thrashing. All thrashings are, of course, duly deserved.
Although the outfit does not pass tests, attend practice, or study for you, the upperclassmen paraphernalia allows for several advantages around campus, giving one more authority and rank. Plus, it’s still warm and fuzzy.
There comes a time in every high school student’s life when he becomes a junior. Junior, the class only inches away from being a senior and miles away from lowly freshman or sophomores. One of the most prevalent icons of upperclassmanship is the letter jacket. While being an upperclassman doesn’t guarantee a letter jacket, a letter jack does guarantee that the person is an upperclassman and is, therefore, in the eyes of underclassman, due a certain amount of respect.
A letter jacket is the superhero cape of the upperclassmen. Several super-upperclassman powers can be observed at work around the wearer of the letter jacket. One of the most useful superpowers of the jacket is the force field that the jacket generates in a 3 ft radius around the wearer in order to repel underclassmen. Unfortunately, large amounts of underclassmen can overload the field, like the main hall between periods, for example, and the wearer will be overrun by mobs of people anyway.
Another of the superpowers that the jacket grants the user is that of locker-area clearance. Underclassmen within 2 lockers of yours will wait for you to finish before they pack; some underclassmen have even been observed to stop unlocking their locker and back away from it in order to accommodate a jacket-wearer who has arrived at the lockers after the underclassman.
The letter jacket also provides wearers with a cloaking ability. The jacket provides cloaking on two levels. Firstly and more obviously, the wearer may blend in with other jacket wearers and go unnoticed in a crowd of guys. Secondly and more practically, the person wearing the jacket may use it to conceal his utility belt, or rather lack thereof, and hide any portion of his uniform that may not necessarily be tucked in.
In order to complete the ensemble, each junior is later equipped with the quintessential symbol of class unity, the class ring. Although the ring is not inscribed with elvish runes, does not, even in groups of 5, possess the power to summon blue pollution-fighting superheroes, cannot transform anyone into either a bucket of water or elephant, and cannot create anything green OR yellow, the class ring does function as the upperclassmen melee weapon of choice, insuring that many an underclassman receives an adequate thrashing. All thrashings are, of course, duly deserved.
Although the outfit does not pass tests, attend practice, or study for you, the upperclassmen paraphernalia allows for several advantages around campus, giving one more authority and rank. Plus, it’s still warm and fuzzy.