North Stafford High School - Flashback Yearbook (Stafford, VA)

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Terry Prater is enjoying his pen, Ariclassmakes him very nervous and hungry. While sleeping, Jeffrey Shelton is heard smopmgesdahais class seems to be very strenuous. Student Life | 31

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Pét Pee Anmoyed find Tolerated) ime It was third period and you fad a major test in Bnglish Your palms were Swgaty While nervous! V waiting for th¢ @xamy @he teachsy went down our isle and gave yourthe ten page test which had 16 be finished by the @md of the period. There were five rmaamutes leit and you still) had three-esSay Questions 10 answer. Then ath of “SQsudden you heard someones fingers“beating on their désk and you lostaltconceniration. Was that a classic case or what? This was just one example of many irritating habits we called pet peeves. There are many more; for example people who chewed finger- nails, shook the desk in front of them, put make-up on in class, twirled their hair, copied people’s homework, and bit on the end of a pencil’ Becky Goss’ biggest com- plaint. was “when girls chew on their hair.” On. ihe other hand, Rhonda Wilson confessed that she was guilty of “shaking people’s desks in front of me.” These twongirls-expressed their opinion. What was. yours? During the research of my topic, I found that pet peeves are very com- mon among people. But what we must all understand was that we must try to recognize our quirks and cope with the habits of our friends. Another pen chewer. Mike Collins studies hard with his pen. | | “Si udeat Life es Heather Andrews works igrd while chewing on her hair. Does it taste good? ‘Ne : Tom Kennedy is taking computer science. While thinking, Tom takes a bite of a Reese.

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body did it,” Graffiti was a e bold; sometimes by whole groups of was everywhere. It was notebooks, clothing, on oom doors, lockers, and the yident parking lot. Graffiti was written in public places for everyone to read. For ex- ample, on notebooks, the most com- mon phrases were from the heart, reading, “Johnny loves Jackie — rue love always” and “My heart is ver with Charles and Charles Siudenulate Jr.” On jeans and shoes were written phrases such as ““Go Home Commu- nists!” and “I Love Turkey Sand- wiches!’ In bathroom stalls, the most common thing seen was “Gin- ger is a babe” and “I hate Henry!”; and in the student parking lot was “North Stafford is 1” and ‘The Class of °88 rocks till it hurts!” Jenny Smythe considered graffiti “Visual Pollution and Vandalism”’. The world should not have been a tablet for self expression, but who could resist inscribing their honey’s name and a heart on an old oak tree or on a vacant spot for the world to read.