Longfellow Middle School, McLean, VA, 1995
The hostility in this signature is so over the top that I think it actually doubles back around and becomes a zen koan. Re-Ree refers to my band, which on the same day the yearbook came out had played at the school talent show.
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Thomas Jefferson High School, Alexandria, VA, 1997
Something must have been on Peter’s mind, but I can’t figure out what it was…His sign off of “Live Long and Get Some” ranks right up there on the list of “Things that somebody who has never gotten some” would say
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Thomas Downey High School, Modesto, CA 1998
This seems like a threat that may have been more effective if it had been written in Ramsey’s yearbook.
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North Salinas High School, Salinas, CA, 1997
Show up late to the movies or forget to return a phone call, and most people are willing to forgive and forget. But there is no friendship-ending blunder quite like blowing off an entire page in the yearbook that was reserved for you. Ditch Charlene and go with Eydie, I say. She seems enthusiastic.
Longfellow Middle School, McLean, VA 1994
The “question” that this girl never answered refers to a time several months earlier that I asked her to go out with me over AOL email one night. This signature was the first time she had ever spoken of the incident or even acknowledged that it had happened.
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Shawnee Mission West High School, Overland Park, KS, 1995
This entry came from a yearbook with a decent amount of blank space left on the signature pages. You could tell the guy in question, Eric, hadn’t made too much of an impression, but most people kept it civil. “Have a great summer” and the like. But Fatemah went ahead and said what the rest of them had to have been thinking.
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Longfellow Middle School, McLean, VA, 1994
“Gym class was great”? “You really cracked me up in science”? “Never change”? All such niceties go out the window when it comes to the end of the year and someone still owes you a petty amount of cash.
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