I think back to the days when some girls and boys were left out in high school....maybe because of looks, shyness, being poor and ignored.....This song by Janis Ian sings of that. I do believe it is a personal story of hers.
Not in self-pity. but I do think back to those days...some of the kids that made the high school basketball team got on because their family was more prominent in small towns.
After my father died my mother married a no-good guy. We moved several times and lived in rented shacks....one of the houses did not even have a floor...just dirt...and it got cold in the winter with below zero weather in the U.P.
In 10th grade we moved to another town. Not bragging...but I was a very good basketball player. I tried out for the team...each day the coach would put the list up of the players that were still in the running. We started out with 31 and only 10 were to be selected. I got to number ten, congratulated by others, bought new basketball shoes with the little money I had from setting pins at the bowling alley.
The next day I looked at the bulletin board and my name had been crossed off...and a high school classmate that had not gone out for the team decided at the last minute he would. His name was put there. Mine with just a line crossed through it. I never went out for basketball again. I would play intramural and score lots of points...others would say...Why are you not on the basketball team.?...I never answered.
I think of this now and then...how we had so few chances in high school. Maybe that is why I leaned to be in a R and R band and radio?
Still enjoyed high school...but was real shy. Years later at class reunions most classmates could not believe I was in radio.
Hope your times were better. ...Joe
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