Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, August 26, 1994 TAG: 9409010013
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: WENDI RICHERT
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
``The year that the other girls switched to nylons from socks, and I showed up on the first day of school with socks.'' Make that the cute fold-over kind with lace on the end.
``On the first day of first grade my second cousin beat himself in the nose and had to go home. It was just one of those inexplicable things, ... and he was the smart one, too.''
``Sixth grade, I missed the first day. I was so nervous about going, I missed the first day of school.''
``On my first day of high school I took my lunch in my brown vinyl Doggie Bag with floppy ears and a dog face painted on it. Everybody else packed their lunch in brown paper bags. I did too after that.''
``I quit after the first day. I came home and told my mom I wasn't going back to kindergarten. I liked school, though, after a couple of weeks.''
``Every single first day of school for the first three years somebody put our son on the wrong bus and we had to go looking for him. I think my wife may have gone to pick him up the first day of third grade.''
And from this soon-to-be middle schooler who, in spite of the principal's promise that no sixth graders will be squished in their lockers, still fears the inevitable: ``I'm excited about going to middle school, but I'm still worried that I'll get stuffed into a locker by an upperclassman.''
by CNB