Elementary school memories

This might be boring for people to read, but I had fun writing it!

Up until 7th grade, I went to a co-ed school. In about 5th grade, the girls were all getting their periods, but were very embarrassed about it. In the middle school girls’ bathroom, there was a box of tampons/pads hanging on the wall and when you opened the bathroom door, you could see the box. It was something that at our righteous age of 12, we would steal and laugh at because we were immature. One day in science class, a boy walks in and asks a group of us girls what the box in our bathroom was. I cleverly (or so I thought at the time) replied with, “it’s a juice machine”. He looked at us in awe and exclaimed, “That’s not fair! How come you guys get a juice machine and we don’t?!” and of course, all the girls giggled and it was the joke for the rest of the year.

One day in 5th grade I was taking a drink from the water fountain while wearing my favorite dress (this was back in the day when even 7th graders wore dresses). It was light pink, and had big watermelons on the front of it. I thought this dress was really cute! Anyway, I'm bending down sipping the cool germy (public water fountains gross me out now) water, and the boy in line behind me (Joey was his name), said, “I can see your training bra”. I was mortified. I turned bright red and said something along the lines of “I don’t care”. Oh yea, in 5th grade I had amazing comebacks.

When I was in 6th grade, it was sooo cool to have a disc man, and the Savage Garden CD.

We would pass notes to boys by leaving them in their locker. There were always at least four love triangles going on at once. (Me and 2 of my friends all liked the same boy and he wrote us all notes saying he only liked us. We all felt pretty good until we compared notes...)

6th grade was the 1st time one of my friends kissed a boy. She did it at school, outside a window, where people were watching (she didn't realize until after when she was the talk of the school). She called him her boyfriend. He called her a girl he kissed.

One of my friends stuffed her bra with tissues. (Same girl who was going around kissing boys. Hmmm now I know how she got all the boys!!!)

In 8th grade me and 2 friends were the movie "Mean Girls". Not the year I'm most proud of. Peer pressure sucks big time.

The 1st PG13 movie I watched was "Clueless".

In my Spottie Dottie diary I “rated” boys. I had two categories. One was of “boys I like” and the other was of “boys I think are cute” (the boys I liked were all in the boys I thought were cute category of course). I wrote their name and then next to it was marks. A star meant that I like them as a friend also. Dots meant not only like, but LOVE; with the number of dots showing how in love I was. (4 boys had dots.) A check meant I only kind of like them. And “O.S.” meant I only sometimes liked them. (I guess it depended on the day?) This sounds more complicated than it really was. I had a pretty good system going.

Tapped in the back of my diary I had another paper with our “code names” on it. We had a code name for practically every boy worth mentioning. We even had a code name for Hanson and Jonathan Taylor Thomas (JTT) as well. Because you never know when we might be hanging out with the Hanson brothers or JTT and we’ll want to talk about them without them knowing.