superlatives.

Hope's senior class just finished up their yearbook voting for the superlative awards...you know, the "most" and "best" awards. Hopey was voted "most gullible" (lol)...and was in the running for "best hair" and "best smile." I emailed two of my friends with the results, and asked if they had been voted "best" or "most"...both had...and both asked the same question back. I answered..."Nope. I was invisible." 

It's probably not entirely true...the invisible part....but I was certainly invisible to the yearbook-voting committee. I suppose that we all felt invisible in some very pretty-in-pink sort of way. For me, it was a combination of things...

*I lived out of district for most of high school. I didn't hang out with friends all the time b/c I had to get back across town (either direction) for homework or dinner or work. It's the main reason that I've been determined to keep my kids in the same district from K-12. 

*I didn't discover decent hair products until at least my early 20s. Seriously...I soooo should have been a contender for best hair! 

*I never dated anyone from my high school. Clearly those fresno-high guys were my downfall...when it came to the lack of superlatives and so much more!

*I was very, very focused on Debate. As a general rule, speech geeks don't get voted for "most daring" or "most fun"...

I'd love to hear your superlative stories (and yes, I will do a "most gullible" layout for Hopey)...

Comments

[mom]

Invisible??????? Are you kidding me?? Is that why your name was on the school sign in front of the building???

[Barb]

I didn't get any superlatives either.
It was the speech geek thing that brought me down, too.

[Sarah]

In the 8th grade yearbook, I was voted "shortest" which really ticked me off because Patty McTague was a full 2 inches shorter than I was! My mother convinced me that I should take it as a compliment that I was much better known than Patty was. I was also voted smartest girl and most likely to be president.

I got no love in high school, though. We moved to a new school district after 8th grade, so I was with a bunch of kids who hadn't known me since we were 5. And, like you, I didn't discover how to deal with my suddenly-curly hair until I was in college.

[Amy So]

dressing all in black and having shouting matches with the assistant principal in the parking lot might have eliminated me from the superlatives race. Except for the "weirdest" and "most likely to crash and burn" competition. ;)

However, by some karmic dint, I managed to have fairly decent hair in high school; apparently all those hormones made my hair curl, and hello: late eighties, big curly hair? Worked.

[Jen]

no superlatives for me either.....I hated high school. I hope it is a better experience for my two guys.