Summer of '76

Spirit of '76

Hi, I'm Erin James, I'm a 17 year old girl, and this is the story of how my last day of my Junior year of high school in 1976 went. I woke up to the annoying sound of my alarm clock going off. I hit the snooze button, shutting it off. I got out of bed and shut off my lava lamps on and put my main light on. I went into the bathroom to got to the bath room, brush my teeth, and brush my hair. I went back into my room and got dressed for school. It was the last day of school for me. My last day of junior year then I'm officially a senior. I'm not ready for senior year. I'm just so stressed I don't know what I want to do after graduation and all my friends already do, so they're not helping. My mom told me that its fine that I don't know what I want to do. I think I'm going to take a year off after high school and just work and save up my money and just think about what I want to do. I grabbed my high-waisted bell-bottom jeans and my Black Sabbath T-shirt and grabbed my converse. I grabbed my purse and my car keys and ran downstairs to say bye to my mom. I went out to my car and headed to school. I was sitting in my car in the parking lot. School didn't start for about another 20 minutes so I had some time to waste. I grabbed the new pack of cigs out of purse and packed them, getting them ready for the day. When I got out of car I saw Pickford and Michelle pulling in. I saw that Pickford was smoking an J and Michelle was rolling some. Just about all of my friends smoke weed, I do sometimes but not a lot. It gives me headaches. I just usually stick to cigs. I smiled and waved at Michelle and she waved back. i walked over to Pink and Simone, who were sitting on the back of Pink's car. "You guys ready for the best day of our lives?" I asked with sarcasm and a little to happily. "You know it." Pink said while we did out handshake. "Are you going to be participating with me and the girls with hazing the freshman girls this afternoon?" Simone asked me, smacking on her gum. Theres this stupid hazing tradition that the seniors get to haze the upcoming freshman to get them ready for high school. The seniors boys make these wood paddles to bust the freshman boys and the seniors girls girls get to throw flour, eggs, mustard, ketchup, and etc. on the freshman girls after school and make them prepose to some of the seniors boys, then they take them through the car wash to "clean" all the gunk off of the. The whole tradition is really fucking stupid in my opinion. 'Um...kinda. I'm just wearing the sweatshirt. i will NOT be putting any of the food on them." I said. Then I saw Michelle and Pickford walking over towards us. Pink and Simone were talking about Pickford's party tonight and kissed and said goodbye. Me, Pink, Pickford, and Michelle all walked into school heading off to first period.