A lot can happen in a short ride
Most of my favorite memories of high school are of times spent with my younger brother, and don’t necessarily have anything to do with school-sanctioned activities – we just happened to be together, because of school!
I don’t have a good picture of us in high school (Fall 2000-Spring 2002) so here’s a picture of us in 1990! BARBIE TRUCK!
I was reminded of this this morning when I was talking to a friend about her son’s request to be excused from today’s pep rally. Ha! My brother(s) and I skipped ALL the pep rallies. This started with my older brother (he and I were in school for my first two years of high school, then my younger brother and I were together for my last two years).
When I started high school, and my older brother was a junior, we’d ride together to school. For a bit, anyway. I didn’t understand, for the life of me, why he didn’t want to get there early, to hang out with his friends! We’d get there with a minute or two to spare. Eventually, the upper classmen friends I made would pick me up and drive me to school so we could hang out before. Awww.
However, I figured it out by the time I was a junior and my younger brother was riding with me to school. We had departure and arrival time down to a science, getting there with just enough time to grab our stuff before class started. Why get there early when it’s such a drag to be there all day, anyway? What was I thinking, my freshman and sophomore years?!
So a lot of my fun memories with my younger brother are us riding to school, or home, together. Like the time I decided to let him drive home. Even though he’d never driven a car before. Yeah… that lasted a few blocks.
Or how we’d stop, almost every warm day, after school, for ice cream! And not just any ice cream – Flavor Stop ice cream – where the vanilla cone has swirls of flavor injected in it (like this!). SO GOOD.
Or the days we’d go home and have to change in to our McDonald’s uniforms go work our shifts, together. It’s weird being your brother’s manager. Ha.
Writing this makes me sad I didn’t get to share any high school time with my snister (she’s five years younger). But we do have a kind of horrible story of me picking her up from middle school, on my first day of junior year. I had such a craptastic day, I got a migraine, and had to pull over to throw up, out the car door, when the car was stopped. Of course, a friend of my mom’s saw us.
Fun times, fun times.
Did any of you ride with a sibling to and from school?
Themocracy
Waiting to see if my sister comments on this, haha…I used to embarrass the hell out of her 🙂
Ha ha, on purpose?!
Sort of? I drove an obnoxious ’78 jeep wagoneer that backfired like gunshots in the winter when you took your foot quickly off the gas. She used to crouch down in the seat next to me when I dropped her off in junior high 🙂
HAHAHA catching up on blog posts and saw this one. KIM-Bobbi LOVED to embarrass me. But we had SOOOOO much fun in that jeep!!! LOL
Funny story about throwing up. Of course your mom’s friend just happened to see it! I exclusively walked to school starting in kindergarten all the way through high school. All walks were pretty much by myself or with a sibling depending if we happened to leave at the same time. No adult walked with us ever. I don’t think that kind of thing happens nowadays anywhere!
That’s nice you could walk! I don’t think you would be at such a young age w/o an adult now, too. We lived a mile from our grade school and my mom always drove us. Our other schools were in a different town!
Once my step-brother got his license he used to drive us to school (he was one grade ahead of me). Sometimes he’d make us leave early so he could go pick up his girlfriend (at the time) and take her to school even though she lived on the other side of town and went to the other high school. Yeah…
And, strangely, I don’t remember driving my step-sister to/from school at all (she’s two grades below me) but I’m sure I must have. Except for my senior year when I was on the dance team and would stay after school for practice.
Ha! That is kid logic for you! I think that is the logic my friends followed picking me up for school when I lived on the other side of town (but went to the same school, ha).
I lived like two blocks from high school, so we always walked. Except for my junior year, when my now sister-in-law would pick me up, and we’d do our make-up together in her van before heading into school. (She was a year ahead of me.) (And now she’s married to my brother.)
I don’t even have a sibling, boohoo!! But, my best friend picked me up for high school every day. It was only a few blocks away, but those are fun rides!
Aw, things like this make me wish I had siblings to share memories with. It’s awesome you have these fun memories of growing up. I only showed up a few minutes before school started when I had 7:15 am show choir practice. Otherwise, even when I was a senior, I was all about the early socializing. 😉 Hope you’re having a great weekend, Kim!