I was reminiscing about high school for some odd reason. One of the memories that popped up was about being in the swim team. One year before I entered Sparks High, the swim team had this cute sweatshirts made that said "SHS Swimmers like it wet!" and I just thought it was the most clever and funny thing ever. I loved those sweatshirts. I mean, I didn't have one as they were made the year before I entered high school. Anyway, I think it was my Junior year when; if I remember correctly, the principal saw someone wearing the sweatshirt and she was highly offended and it was not allowed on campus anymore. Am I recalling this correctly?
Also, swimming saved my life. My freshman year for me was rough. For some odd reason, I had been bused to Clayton Middle in Reno for ESL classes, although there was a middle school less than four blocks away from our Section 8 apartment that had an ESL program in Sparks. Most of the Clayton kids got to go to either McQueen or Reno high. I was zoned for Sparks, which meant that I would enter high school not knowing anyone. I got bullied a lot that year. I was obese at that time, and I remember this one Jessie (asshole) who in-front of the entire Algebra class told me that I was so fat that I needed a bra. I was so hurt. I cried and cried and the poor lady teaching the math class didn't know what to do to get me to stop crying. LOL LOL. Anyway, I started to have really bad anxiety and bouts of bawling at home in the evenings. And then I signed up for PE swimming and then joined the swimming team and my life totally changed. It really did. It no longer mattered what happened between 7:30 and 2:00 PM - all I looked forward to was swimming at Alf Sorensen Pool next to Reed High. Being in the water was everything. It gave me the opportunity to be alone, to think, to get away, and I didn't know it at the time, but to meditate. I really own my sanity to swimming.
During the winter semester, people could still sign up for swimming. The number of students that signed up for that class was minimal so they would lump several high schools into one pool. I remember this one winter we were swimming at this one pool in North Reno closer to Reno High and there was this one snobby bitchy entitled girl from McQueen who pissed me off, and I don't really remember what she did or said to me, but I was mad and I was going to get her. I was gonna get that bitch!! bhahahha. So I had this bright idea that I would take a bottle of shaving cream and while everyone was in the lockers changing, that I would go and cover her car in shaving cream. Little did I know that some snitch had watched me and had then gone and reported me to the coach. We went thru practice and went to shower and change and all that, and upon exciting the locker room the coach was standing there with a bucket and he made me wash the car by hand in front of everyone in the middle of winter. LOL LOL. The school bus was delayed while I finished my punishment. People were not happy. I'll never forget that. I believe I never sought revenge against anyone after that - not physical revenge at least, I still psychologically put people thru the worst. hehehehe
Bahahahahhaha. Good god.
One last thing, I was also thinking about the current lives of my HS class mates, my own included. Funny that most, ended up in situations that I had NOT envisioned them in. Life is definitely a very interesting thing.
And... I need my car washed. Any recommendations in Concord, CA?
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