...you dont say 'Eat shit and die', but rather 'Consume
feces and expire'.
...the grafiti in the washrooms is mostly grammar/spelling
corrections for previous grafiti.
...you dont say 'Eat shit' you say 'Consume fecal
matter'.
...you find yourself playing calculator games in class
instead of talking to your friends and between classes running into people because you're playing snake or something.
...it's Friday night and you're at school having a party
in the drama room with a couple of teachers. And it's fun.
...at someone's house, it's fun to play darts and have
competitive, and often violent ping pong matches.
...during spare you ignore others to do crossword puzzles.
...you find yourself speaking Shakespearean for no apparent
reason in the middle of a conversation.
...you use Social Studies references.....like sitting with your back
to a wall so you won't be faced with war on 2 fronts...
...an improper spelling of 'earwax' could cost you a game of hangman,
and this is devastating.
...you walk down the hallways and understand the jokes about Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern.
...there are jokes about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
...you hang out with teachers at dances and discuss Pythagorus' theorem.
...you spend half an hour making fun of someone who says binoculars
"BI-noculars" and talk about homo-noculars and hetero-noculars.
...you actually use the words 'therefore', 'discussionate', 'conglomerate',
'ornery' and 'hence' in sentences.
...people
say their temperal lobes hurt, and you know what they're talking about.
...you actually say "Y'know when the nerve receptors send
an impulse through the spinal cord to the dendrites of the nerve and it causes the motor nerve to contract a muscle?" rather
than saying "Y'know when this chunk of your brain tells this stringy thing to make that lump move?" and people know what you're
talking about.
...you debate with your friends over your other friends name, whether
it is a noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, etc. and you actually enjoy the conversation. (We're talking about Will's name, if
you didnt catch that.)
...you spend valuable time mathematically figuring out whether or not
7-11 charged you 2 extra cents.
...your soccer team decides to make a flying V while doing warmup on
a particularly windy day to avoid as much resistance.
...you skip a class to study for a different one, instead of skipping
the one you were studying for, or both of them entirely, or skipping it just cause.
...you're trying to make your friends hurry up in a store so you use
the policy of appeasement and tell them it looks great and let's get out of here.
...your meeting spot isn't at a store, or near a store, but in the
exact centre of a circle on the floor and you haven't officially met until everyone has a foot in the exact middle of the
circle.
...you have a conversation that goes like this:
Person #1: "If someone said you were fleet, would you assume fleet of foot?
Person #1.5: "No, I would assume you had a large navy."
...you play games like trivial pursuit, risk, scrabble
and cribbage at parties and have a blast.
...you come close to killing someone because of an argument about the
interpretation of the rules of RISK.
...you arrange your shoutouts alphabetically (hint hint...Paul...)
...you laugh at the little cartoons in your chem book.
...you laugh at the stories on your english diploma.
...you speak in equations, for example: Kathleen + Tom = big hands
and insane tardiness.
