Reunion Moments
By jim bourey
Remember
the cafeteria boycott,
the
big deal over a small issue that
got
the manager fired? The woman
had
a problem in her job, then she
had
a bigger problem feeding her
own
family. No one thought about
retraining
in those good old high
school
days. And how could we
forget
starting those fraternities
and
sororities in our later school years?
So
cool, another way to exclude kids
already
on the margins of that tight
knit
society. In those days it
so
hard to drop out. Some did when
going
to school became a gauntlet
of
ridicule and teasing. But hey,
it
was all in good fun. Right? And
after
school we would go down
to
Main Street to the soda shop,
have
our malted milkshakes
and
vanilla phosphates, make fun
of
the Greek waitress with the speech
impediment.
Some of the guys could
do
a really accurate impression. To
her
face. Rudely. Just one more happy
memory
from those golden high
school
days. And now fifty years
have
gone by and we celebrate our
selves.
I wonder how Karma works?
