story: one of my friends just started an assistant coaching job at a local high school. she helps with the freshmen girls basketball team. at this high school there are very few blacks. in fact, there are very few black people in the state of utah.the other night the team had a retreat of sorts and played halo for a while. somehow the subject came up that when my friend was in high school her team was mostly black girls (california). they were amazed. so much so that they started asking questions about them like "were they nice?'" and "were they all athletic?"
they dont mean to be ignorant. they have just never met a black person.
now, it is common for high school kids to find silly or weird ways of entertaining each other. there are a few ways of doing this. lets look at the local high school basketball team again. when riding to and from games they sing church songs and kids songs rather than listen to the radio. on my high school road trips we had people getting drunk, looking at porn and hazing freshmen.
oh, there is a great subject. hazing. let's see... high school girls: dress up like steve urkel (together). my high school experience was quite different.ok, i was on the wrestling team. we had some very large card board tubes that we would use to roll up the mats. the longer ones were about 12 feet. one day the seniors (i was a freshman, i think) grabbed a really annoying sophomore in the middle of practice. they wrapped his arms and legs around the tube and tied them together on the other side using jump ropes. then they picked up the tube and carried it to the main gym where the girls basketball team was practicing. while he was dangling and pleading for his dignity, some one pantsed him. he was left on the sidelines of the court where the basketball coaches promptly came to his rescue. the weirdest part tho, was that no one was punished. sure the head basketball coach came in and yelled at us for a few minutes. but that was it.
we got away with all kinds of stuff. most of which i prolly shouldnt tell you. like the time a couple guys peed on a mop and started hitting freshmen with it in the locker room. or the time someone photo-shopped the principle's head over a very nude centerfold and put on a very high window in the middle of the school.
but my favorite prank related story was never to be.
my high school was extremely ... liberal. annoyingly so, actually. the most controversial thing my school ever did was to participate in the "national day of silence." it was such a big deal. it was so big that we actually made the news as the only school in the state of washington to do it. "what is it" you ask? well, it is a day when participants wear pink, upside-down triangles and do not speak for the entire day to symbolize being "in the closet" about your sexual orientation. sort of a "gay-pride" party, if you will.
the first year, many parents didnt allow their kids to go to school. they didnt feel it was an appropriate topic for teenagers. then, as the initial tension faded slightly, the pranksters came out to play.most of the pranks were inappropriate. but since mine never actually happened, i can tell it.
one day during lunch i was sitting with some football buddies (i never played football, but since i was a wrestler and could whoop any one of them they tried to stay on my good side) and we were discussing our feelings about the next day of silence. so i told them my grand idea. they go to such-and-such street and steal the yield sign (the entire yield sign--post and all). then they flip the sign around, spray paint it pink and put the letters "no gay zone" on it. then on the eve of the day of silence they pull up to the school entrance with shovels and picks, make a hole, put the post inside and cement it with quick-dry cement and be out in 10 minutes flat.
it was fool proof. it was genius. even if they did it, i would get "credit" for the idea but not the accusation. if they didnt do it, well, then no harm done.
they were chased off by a night-watch cop.
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