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Jan 07, 2011, 01:23 PM
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Member Since: Jun 2007
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Posts: 5,518
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Originally Posted by lynn P.
Thanks bloom3 - yes I'll try not to tarnish my daughter with my own lack of trust issues. I have advised her that she shouldn't take anything of value to school because unfortunately things can get stolen.
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Or maybe even worse.
We used to have to wear the ugliest gym suits in high school. It was my first class of the morning. I was goofing off and cracking jokes with a friend of mine. As the coach was talking about danger/protection, I was goofing off and cracking jokes with a friend of mine. We noticed one of the girls across the room. She had a reputation for being very mean - carried a knife in her knee socks. When we visualized this "mean woman " out on the streets in her ugly gym suit and knee socks, we busted out laughing. Who could POSSIBLY be so intimidating in such a ridiculous outfit? We caught her eye when we started laughing. It wasn't a friendly look. 
The next day we were in gym class when the fire alarm went off. We all had to stand out in the freezing cold in those gym suits for what seemed like an eternity.
They finally called the entire school into the auditorium for an assembly - our graduating class alone was huge. The dean walked up to the mic and asked me to come down from the bleachers. He was holding a flimsy piece of fabric and asked me to come up to the mic. It was a remnant of my purse - they only thing that survived the fire, which was started in MY gym locker.
My clothes, my coat, my books, my homework, my drivers license - everything was gone. I had to spend the rest of the day going from class to class - the ONLY one dressed in an ugly gym suit with everyone laughing at me. At first, I was accused of setting my own locker on fire - til I convinced the dean no self-respecting girl would want to step out onto the street in those ugly gym suits - let alone any one of his classrooms. It was a VERY cold ride home. 
I'd LOVE to see that woman again. I'd probably give her a hug and tell her "Thanks a LOT for lighting my fire!" 
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