This is me and Tom. Tom was my best friend through all of junior and senior high school. Then we went away to college and Tom moved to Indiana and we've never seen each other since. I know it's a sad story. But here's the cool part: I recently found his little corner of the web (Yay Google!) and (after 18 years) we've been emailing back and forth and catching up a bit with each other. It's been pretty fun. So Tom dug up this picture of the two of us before heading off to one of the junior high "theme" dances. The theme here was obviously to wear something so ridiculous we wouldn't be faced with the prospect of actually dancing with anyone.
This picture is not photoshopped either! Tom really was (and I presume) still is that tall. I think he was about 6'2" in those days. Or maybe it just seemed like it. Also, if you notice, Tom was doing the nice thing and not even wearing shoes in the picture. Then the height difference would have been really noticable!
But here's the really funny part: When we arrived at the school to go in, the person at the door didn't believe Tom was actually a student! They took him into the principle's office to grill him about his homeroom teacher and his class schedule until they finally believed him and let him in! What a riot.
So that was me and Tom and the Greaser Day dance. I don't even remember being there, but I always remembered this picture, that's for sure.
1 comment:
Jay, you look like you just swallowed a canary! You were SO cute. And small!!
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