My high school band teacher Mr. Spry turned 50 when I was a senior.  Well maybe it was 60 because he retired that year. 

Anyway it was a nice round number, so Mr. Braue got all of the band together in the parking lot of Meijers and we all marched down some random streets to get to Mr. Spry's home.

He didnt have a clue there was going to be a surprise, but his wife got a bunch of food and beverages for everyone to drink after our band came rolling down the streets playing happy birthday.  The whole neighborhood was partying with us and we shocked a lot of people.

It was such a fun and unique experience to do such a thing.  When you think about it.  That type of experience is once and a lifetime!  So cool and soo much fun.  I miss marching band!

One time in our AP Biology class, our teacher Mr. Mandley had us discect a cat.

I am sure this is nothing new to most high schoolers and I guess this is a common memory among people going through school.

But I guess I will just explain some of the things I remember just for my own documentation of what went on.

We all gathered in groups of 4.  My group was Millicent , Jessika , and I cant even remember the 4th person that was in our group now.  I think it was another guy.  He was kind of in one of those other clicks if I can remember right.  He even used to play this Neo Geo handheld a bit in class.

Anyway, we got our corpse of a cat and we named him Quequog.  (After the character in moby dick).  Our cat wasnt just any old cat.  This fucker had the most obscure and large organs as well as skin that is as tough as a pigskin football.

We first had to skin the fur off of it and that I can recall took an entire class period.

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When I was a freshman in College I met a girl at media play (a entertainment store that was later bought out by Best Buy). 



I purchased a dorky movie (Final Fantasy: The Spirits within) and had a
great conversation about video games and final fantasy with this red
headed girl.



She was cute and for sure fun because she likes dorky video games and all.



I got her phone number and we had like one conversation for an hour or so.



But soon I heard from people (not sure who exactly) that she was a
married woman.  She was ONLY 18 years old too.  In fact, she was
married to my friend Ryan Morency.  Obviously they later divorced. 



But I just was shocked that a married woman was pursuing me and I was
pursuing her as well.  We went out once and played pool I think.  I
recall just never calling her again after I learned of this thing.



Ryan, if you ever read this, I apologize and never knew she was your
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This one time on our 8th grade trip to Washington DC, we took our whole group to the Hollocost museum.

But we werent there but 10 minutes when Jason Cooley spit off of this balcony thing.

Someone caught him and then they kicked out our entire school.

People can ruin things for everyone by doing something stupid. Why would anyone punish a group of people when it is one persons fault for doing something stupid?

This type of thing happens all the time in society. Someone can commit a crime and lawmakers will screw everyone else over because one person did something.

People can be stupid sometimes, but Jason was a cool guy regardless. I didnt really want to go to that muesum anyways at the time. I was too young to think about what happened 50 years ago.

This one time a bunch of band people played some full contact football together.

We had done this in the past at Burt Elementary School Playground