Highland Park High School - Highlander Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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CONCENTRATIING on her dance steps, junior Robyn Tenery performs a routine during a pep rally. Photo by Erin Boydston WATCHING the dancers, seniors Chelle Stephens, Caroline Summers, Katherine Tyrrell and Melaney Dobbs ieee the drill team. Photo by Kristen Eubank Student Life Divider

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@ EMBARRASSED, senior Phillip Page exits the wrong bathroom as senior Amy Bradley enters. Photo by Jerry Jane Walling If It’s Not One Thing It’s Another UMILIATION fm h my 6 drove off with all ‘Gosh! I I blushed when I got my books on top don’t my tongue stuck in a bottle ay tye elieve oe 9 : eather awn, that just happen- of grape Juice. said senior. Mean- ed to me! Blakeney Bobbitt while, sopho- This is an ex- clamation people hear all over school . .. Whether they are tripping and landing flat on their face in the middle of the cafeteria or walking into the commons with toilet paper on their shoe, embarrass- ing moments are familiar to most people. Students even remember certain “I could have died’’ moments from their childhood. Robyn Tenery, junior, recalled, ‘When I was in the f irst grade and had to ‘go’ really bad, my partner asked me why the floor was wet and I said, ‘I think the janitor spilled his bucket!’”” Unfortunately, there are few solu- tions to such embarrassments. “All I could do is laugh when I more Jerry Jane Walling explain- ed “What I always do is pretend it didn’t even happen.” Worst of all, the stupid things peo- ple do always seem to happen when they are trying to act their coolest. When trying to be “suave and debonair” on one occasion, senior pe Burke said, “I was getting out of a car and unknowingly caught my foot on the seat belt aad fell face first. Needless to say the beautiful girls across the street were impressed!” The truth is that embarrassing moments are a reality ... they are the moments that can hardly be con- trolled . . . or forgotten. Amy Bradley HUMILIATION 4 es |