James was at high school and didn’t have a girlfriend as such. All the others seemed to have a girlfriend or a boyfriend. Maybe not all; Cora Jones didn’t seem to have a boyfriend and she was the one that James liked the most. With the school dance coming up he had to invite someone but he was too scared to ask Cora in case she said no. So he put it off.
Then with just two days left to go he had to ask someone. He just had to. He hated the thought. He’d rather have a Chemistry test and he hated Chemistry. There was no way out. He had to; he just had to; had to; had to.
Going up to Cora Jones he asked her point blank if she would like to go with him to the dance.
“Who do you think I am, you scrawny little twerp?” said Cora. “Don’t you know I’m going with Nigel Wolland? At least he’s got a personality; and looks. And at least he’s partially co-ordinated enough to dance. So no. Bad luck, loser.”
James went home and the next three days he called in sick. He was glad Cora Jones said no. Imagine having to go out with someone like her. He didn’t go to the dance. He stayed home and watched television.
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Sounds like my high school years.
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Those were tough days, eh?
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I’m happy not to have to repeat them.
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I hated every minute of it. Bruce may have invented a time machine and gone back and took a page from my sophomore life.
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Awww.
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Really? They clearly didn’t know you’d grow up to be a famous blogger.
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lol. Thank you.
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A high destiny awaited Herb in his youth.
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Mine too – I hated Chemistry tests!
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😂Well, I was a scrawny little twerp and this is how I got on with the girls.
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I hated those days… and tests! James is better off. Since it was your story I thought maybe poison, a bomb, or knife was going to come into play.
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Given the number of murders in the news these days your comment could be construed as highly insensitive.
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I can only hope…
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!!!
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I sure hoped she tripped over Nigel and fell into a pile of chemistry tests.
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She did! She fell into a bath of fuming nitric acid.
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That sounds frighteningly real. That is how school shooters are born.
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It’s amazing how many youths survived.
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Poor kid! Teen girls can be cruel. I was not asked to my junior prom, so my father asked a friend who lived out of state if his son would take me. He was good-looking kid and very kind and we had a good time.
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We didn’t have proms – I suppose we did except we called them school balls. You never invited anyone but just turned up. I hated them because I was super shy.
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I went to daces with my fair share of scrawny little twerps and always had a great time. Cora doesn’t know what she’s missing.
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This is sad, but I’m guessing James is a millionaire now and Cora works at McDonalds. Anyhow, who wants to go to that dance with all those poseurs when there’s TV and video games.
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