ahh, the good old days
so i am watching the yankee game and doing laundry right now, and while
i'm down in the basement with my laundry i started thinking about
random, funny things that happened in high school. and there were a lot
of them. i even laughed out loud (but i sure as fuck didn't LOL) about
a few of them. so i thought i'd share them with you.
great moments in holmdel high school history #69: wierd foreign choir performs assembly for the ages
so this european choir, boys and girls, comes to our school to sing in the auditorium, and nobody really wants to go to this thing as far as i know but we missed class so it was all good. we didn't realize how much fun it would be though, and if i had known ahead of time what was about to transpire inside the auditorium, i would have paid admission to this performance. apparently they're all jet-lagged as hell and they all look kind of exhausted but alert and trying their best not to look tired. so the singing begins and obviously they're really, really ridiculously good and the first couple of songs go very well. it was really hot in our auditorium and the entire school was pretty much in there watching so it was only getting hotter and more uncomfortable with every passing second, and all of a sudden one of the singers on the left side just collapses. falls flat on his face and doesn't move, and the all of the non-fuckups are making noises of concern... while me and my friends are holding our laughter in as best we can. one of the adults that came with them, and a few teachers, run up to go drag him off stage while the rest of the choir does their thing... and about 3 minutes later a girl in the front row passes out too. this one got a few less laughs, and again she gets picked up and taken out by adults. to me, this is fucking awesome. i'm loving every minute. all of a sudden, it's mayhem. these kids are dropping like flies, and the rest of the singers are starting to get nervous and a little freaked out, looking around and shit to see if it's some sniper in the stands with a silencer picking them off one-by-one. must have been about 8 of the little buggers that went down and by that time, they were losing a good percentage of europeans... so the conductor or whatever you call the guys that's waving his arms like a cheerleader who just can't stop eventually turns around after a song is over and announces that they are cancelling the rest of the show because too many of their kids are passing out, and they leave quickly. so much for that concert... the principal apologized and i'm just thinking "thank you. thank you so, so much for this. this was the best assembly of my life, even better than that ex-drug addict comedian that was an absolute nutbag." unbelievable. nothing like watching little white kids passing out while their singing.
great moments in holmdel high school history #140: kevin shields caught in desk-defacing incident
Kevin Shields, 18, an active and upstanding member of the Holmdel community and HHS senior, was caught by his AP Economics teacher, Mr. Motzenbecker, writing graffiti on his desk during the 1st period class. Shields has an impressive resume: he is an elected official in the student governent; treasurer of the Spanish Honors society; editor of Key Club; member of the Drug and Alcohol Alliance, Helping Cancer Patients, and the Transitions leadership organization; was named a National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar and a National Merit Commended Scholar in his junior year; had a GPA of 3.73; and also is well-liked by many teachers in the school.
However, he was already on Motzenbecker's bad side after showing up late to class nearly every day that he actually attended. Motzenbecker inspected the desks before class every day in an effort to catch students who were vandalizing the desks in his room, and on this occasion he caught Mr. Shields while he was still in class.
Although school officials refused to release what the subject matter of the vandalism was, this reporter was able to find out through word of mouth that the writing on the desk said, in fact, "Motzenbecker is a ballerina" in black ink.
When Shields was asked what his conversation with Motzenbecker entailed upon his teacher's discovery of his debaucherous artistry, he was more than happy to oblige. "He called me out on it right away, and we talked about it right in the middle of class," Shields said. "I tried to deny it but then he told me about his pre-class desk examination, and I had to come clean."
More shocking was what happened at the end of class, according to Shields. "He called me to his desk at the end of class to say that if I had a problem with him, there were other ways that we could solve it," Shields stated. "It seemed like he was offering to take it outside."
It's a good thing that Kevin kept a cool head in the situation and just apologized and walked away. "I would have kicked that scrawny old man's ass," he said with a smile.
to be continued...
great moments in holmdel high school history #69: wierd foreign choir performs assembly for the ages
so this european choir, boys and girls, comes to our school to sing in the auditorium, and nobody really wants to go to this thing as far as i know but we missed class so it was all good. we didn't realize how much fun it would be though, and if i had known ahead of time what was about to transpire inside the auditorium, i would have paid admission to this performance. apparently they're all jet-lagged as hell and they all look kind of exhausted but alert and trying their best not to look tired. so the singing begins and obviously they're really, really ridiculously good and the first couple of songs go very well. it was really hot in our auditorium and the entire school was pretty much in there watching so it was only getting hotter and more uncomfortable with every passing second, and all of a sudden one of the singers on the left side just collapses. falls flat on his face and doesn't move, and the all of the non-fuckups are making noises of concern... while me and my friends are holding our laughter in as best we can. one of the adults that came with them, and a few teachers, run up to go drag him off stage while the rest of the choir does their thing... and about 3 minutes later a girl in the front row passes out too. this one got a few less laughs, and again she gets picked up and taken out by adults. to me, this is fucking awesome. i'm loving every minute. all of a sudden, it's mayhem. these kids are dropping like flies, and the rest of the singers are starting to get nervous and a little freaked out, looking around and shit to see if it's some sniper in the stands with a silencer picking them off one-by-one. must have been about 8 of the little buggers that went down and by that time, they were losing a good percentage of europeans... so the conductor or whatever you call the guys that's waving his arms like a cheerleader who just can't stop eventually turns around after a song is over and announces that they are cancelling the rest of the show because too many of their kids are passing out, and they leave quickly. so much for that concert... the principal apologized and i'm just thinking "thank you. thank you so, so much for this. this was the best assembly of my life, even better than that ex-drug addict comedian that was an absolute nutbag." unbelievable. nothing like watching little white kids passing out while their singing.
great moments in holmdel high school history #140: kevin shields caught in desk-defacing incident
Kevin Shields, 18, an active and upstanding member of the Holmdel community and HHS senior, was caught by his AP Economics teacher, Mr. Motzenbecker, writing graffiti on his desk during the 1st period class. Shields has an impressive resume: he is an elected official in the student governent; treasurer of the Spanish Honors society; editor of Key Club; member of the Drug and Alcohol Alliance, Helping Cancer Patients, and the Transitions leadership organization; was named a National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar and a National Merit Commended Scholar in his junior year; had a GPA of 3.73; and also is well-liked by many teachers in the school.
However, he was already on Motzenbecker's bad side after showing up late to class nearly every day that he actually attended. Motzenbecker inspected the desks before class every day in an effort to catch students who were vandalizing the desks in his room, and on this occasion he caught Mr. Shields while he was still in class.
Although school officials refused to release what the subject matter of the vandalism was, this reporter was able to find out through word of mouth that the writing on the desk said, in fact, "Motzenbecker is a ballerina" in black ink.
When Shields was asked what his conversation with Motzenbecker entailed upon his teacher's discovery of his debaucherous artistry, he was more than happy to oblige. "He called me out on it right away, and we talked about it right in the middle of class," Shields said. "I tried to deny it but then he told me about his pre-class desk examination, and I had to come clean."
More shocking was what happened at the end of class, according to Shields. "He called me to his desk at the end of class to say that if I had a problem with him, there were other ways that we could solve it," Shields stated. "It seemed like he was offering to take it outside."
It's a good thing that Kevin kept a cool head in the situation and just apologized and walked away. "I would have kicked that scrawny old man's ass," he said with a smile.
to be continued...