Sorry,@Morrighan, maybe I should have put that behind a spoiler tag, with a trigger warning. 
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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
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I did not get to enjoy the displeasure of cafeteria food. It was an extreme rarity I could get a hot cafeteria meal. I took a bag lunch to school from grades 7 - 12 99% of the time. Usually a sandwich and a Little Debbie cake or Tastycake and I would buy milk at the school. When I was in junior high school, the brown baggers were not permitted to eat in the cafeteria. We had to go to the gym and eat in the bleachers. Nothing like the stench of sweat while we ate. When I got to high school, the building was new and everybody ate in the cafeteria. There was even a record player built into the cafeteria wall with a a sound system in the ceiling. Kids would bring albums in and play them during lunch. We would rock out to Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, etc. at lunch.And of course, the pizza was rectangular...
Rhetorical, but also not: What the hell???
What possible justification could an administration have for that, short of simply being jerks??From a logistical standpoint alone, cleaning up one eating space of food debris and trash would be easier and more sanitary. That's the entire point of having a cafeteria in the first place!
I'm sorry your school was run by such twits, Rich.
In college, our fraternity had a rule to stand any time a lady entered the room. Much of the time, it would embarrass them, but most would just smile.File under "things I was taught as a young man."
See also: Opening doors (building & vehicular), Assisting with a lady's chair when dining, Hat etiquette
Agreed. I saw "Ghost Story" in the theater and still enjoy it. We watched it last Halloween, in fact.
I'm listening to my iPod Classic right now.
This post is a couple of years old, but I'll just quote myself since it's worth repeating:
Our school had rules that if a male student were to call upon a young lady in the women's dorm, there were only certain hours during which he may do so. Furthermore, said male visitor was to pause at the top of the stairs and announce in a loud voice, "MAN ON FLOOR!" so the ladies would be able to close their doors, or take whatever other steps might be required to maintain their modesty.
Yep, the female dorms at my university had the same rule. Males were not allowed past the living rooms & kitchens at the sorority houses, either.
I said something along these lines elsewhere, but I'll note it for the record here:
If loving the sight of a supernaturally-sexed-up-ghostly-nekkid-multigenrational-vengeance-killin' Alice Krige in her bridal gown, floating downward with slow menace over the empty space in a collapsed staircase, then emerging from a submerged car in her gasp-rattling, rotted-out-corpse form as a last act of horror toward the geezers who mistreated her as young rapscallions is wrong, I do not want to be right!
My grandparents always had a bag of the dried prunes in the fridge. Right next to the prune juice. For the 'gentle persuasion', of course.Nobody I knew ever ate those nasty-[bleep] prunes.
I'll never understand what it was with prior generation(s) that so many of them needed so much extra "persuasion" to go take a crap.
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I'd love to find a pair of jeans with half-price lifetime replacement... friggin LEVIS 501 are made of the thinnest cloth imaginable nowadays
Never needed prune juice for that. A good cuppa of joe was always my best vehicle!I'll never understand what it was with prior generation(s) that so many of them needed so much extra "persuasion" to go take a crap.
