Many times my friends Jeff Sandzick and Tim would light off farts in the dark at our cabin at band camp. It was pretty funny and the farts would get pretty high too.

So Today Matt and I decided to grab some lunch while at chimes in Troy and we were initially thinking about going to Pot Belly for a sandwich. But then I mentioned how we still havent gone to Troy High School to randomly eat lunch with some weirdo high schoolers. Bear in mind we are both 24 years old. We figured we could pull it off cause we still look like we are in high school.

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Derek Bannasch and I used to do student announcements over the PA in the morning.  We were very eccentric and dramatic with our announcements.  We aspired to achieve the fame of last year's announcing team of Jim Territo and Brandon Williams.

Once, at the closing of the announcements, they signed off by saying "These announcements have been brought to you by Rudy's Meat Market: nobody beats our meat".  Unfortunately for them, they were no longer allowed to give the announcements.

So one morning we closed our announcements by saying "These announcements have been brought to you by Rudy's Meat Market" and that was it.  When I turned around I saw that one of the staff was frowning and they scolded us.

Just to prove that I am the dorkiest user on the site, I have scanned official documents to back up my story ;)

This one time, my brother and Scott V and I all went up to Sam's party store to have someone else buy us beer.

It was mostly Scott and Dans idea and I was just along for the ride.

We found some dude that was willing to buy for us and we headed back to the waterford house to drink it.

This was my first encounter with beer and my conception of alcohol was that it was always good when you mix it with kool aid.

I think I learned that through some of the derelicts that we used to hang out with.

Anyway, I knew it might taste funny, but I still thought it might be a decent combination.

As it turns out I was wrong and the beer kool aid was a complete disaster.

It wasnt until later up until my Junior year in High School (partying with Alpha Chi Rhoe) that I drank another beer again.

Yummy! EVERYONE HAS TO SEE BEER FEST. WHAT A GREAT MOVIE!

In my senior year in high school, I was the section leader for our trumpet section. It was pretty big. I think we had like 35 members or something. I was pretty outgoing. I would jump around and swivel my hips and say "can you feel it?" like Ace Ventura. At our Band-O-Rama event awards were given out based on student votes. I received the "Spark Plug" award nearly unanimously.

At our state competition, we did a great performance and it was now the time when the awards were announced. They got all the way to 4th place and we got nervous. In 1995 we had received 4th place. In 1993 we got 7th and we got 8th in 1994. Finally, they announced that we got 3rd place. It was so exciting, being my senior year and getting the best placing we ever received. (In Michigan you can't really get first place because Plymouth Canton does every year because they spend tons of money and do totally untraditional things - but that's a different story).

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