high school people watching

so once upon a time, i sat here and had a thought. i wondered how things would have been different had i grown up in a town larger than where i did.

but let me rewind and 'splain to you how i got to this thought location. over labor day weekend, the town where i live now had a big (for them) festival. it's a yearly thing, always on labor day weekend, and entertaining to attend. if not just for the tasty fried food (scones, anyone?), or the rides that are overly expensive unless you go on "family night" (then they are only a dollar apiece) (and seem to get me sick faster every year...), then go just for the opportunities to people watch. because i tell you what, that is an entertaining pasttime.

obviously, family night is the best time for rides and people watching. that is also the time when all of the high school kids are there to try to be seen, hang with friends, and generally cause crowds. these herds of adolescents are what started this whole post, by wondering what it would have been like to go to a larger high school, have large(r) quantities of friends living nearby, and being allowed to visit festivals and such with them through high school. the time when responsibilities were fewer, and the hardest thing to worry about was the next test.

call me strange, but i truly do wonder. (too many "what if...?" comics, mayhaps?

as an aside, the helmet mentioned in the last post? it is currently being prepped for painting, and we are planning on attacking it in the next couple weeks. (gotta be done quick, i think the hockey season starts after the 21st)