June 21, 2005
when i was a kid…
The Fark headline reads: School looks to solve cafeteria overcrowding by serving lunch at 9:36 AM, and is tagged with “stupid”.
These kids in Poughkeepsie don’t have it so bad. Their school doesn’t start til 8, whereas at good old Randolph High School, homeroom started at 7:20. First period started at 7:30, and we had 40 minute periods, with 4 minutes passing time between classes. Lunch was periods 4 — 7, and if we do a little math, we see that 4th period went from 9:42 — 10:22.
This was the lunch period I had for two of my four years, and I ate a hockey puck cheeseburger, greasy fries, and a 1/2 pint of chocolate milk every day (which cost about $2, which should tell you more than you need to know about the quality of the food), except during wrestling season, in which case I would survive on the leftover sweetness in my mouth from brushing my teeth that morning.
Typically, it takes students 20 minutes to make it through the lunch line, leaving them 20 minutes to eat, Shuchat said.
Yup, me too. So looking back at my formative years, this is probably why I skip breakfast, eat lunch at 11:30 (or thereabouts), and can usually wolf down an entire meal in about 20 minutes. Thanks for giving me such healthy habits, Randolph High School.
June 21st, 2005 at 1:21 pm
don’t forget about the extra five minutes deducted from your lunch to beat scavengers away from stealing your greasy fries. also there was the great fun of having gym right after lunch, so after scarfing down 8 pounds of liquid fat in 20 seconds, you then are expected to run around in circles when all you want to do is lie down and ogle the girls in their short shorts. of course why am i complaining, here in my hell i don’t take any lunch at all, there’s just the five minutes i type with one hand while i eat my crappy homemade sandwich. i know it never stops, but can’t it at least get better?