I'm sorry, but you know summer is over when…
1. You see school buses practicing their routes in the mornings and afternoons.
2. Rush hour is back and in full force thanks to those school buses.
3. Tax free weekend comes around and you fight in the middle of Staples to get the last college ruled notebook.
4. Target starts putting their swim suits on sale.
5. Your tan lines that you worked so hard for start to fade.
6. But you can actually go to the pool without screaming children because your county has gone back to school (YAY!)...
7. ...for the next week until the pool closes.
8. You can’t find a twin sheet set anywhere because the college freshmen have already bought them all.
9. Michael’s starts putting out pumpkins, leaves, and other fall decorations.
10. You see Halloween costumes in every store.
11. You have a sudden inclination to put on leggings.
12. You stare at your closet for hours contemplating how you’re going to pack up all your clothes and haul them to college.
13. Your parents start bugging you about ordering books but you refuse to admit it’s time.
14. ABC starts advertising their new fall lineup.
15. You are SO EXCITED for "Scandal" to come back, and for new shows.
16. You can smell pumpkin spice lattes in the air.
17. You have, like, 10 lunch dates this week to see all your friends before you leave.
18. You can’t find a good peach at any grocery store, or any other summer fruit for that matter.
19. You see 5 car washes every time you leave your house from all the different high schools and their programs.
20. You have to avoid eye contact with said high schoolers because you’re about to be a broke college student again.
21. Pre-season football games are on TV, and if your team is anything like mine, they’re probably still losing.
22. You’re dreading losing the sunlight, because you know the days are going to get shorter soon.
23. You force your pets to hang out with you as much as you can while they still remember you.
24. You look at the “crafts” that you made this summer and realize you dropped $50 at Hobby Lobby but only made one canvas.
25. You hope your future little forgives you.
26. You’ve stalked the #vu2019 or other college hashtags on Instagram to creep on all the incoming freshmen.
27. You cry inside when you realize that this year you become irrelevant.
28. But when you look back on your summer break, you realize you have a lot of great memories, and that’s exactly what summer is meant to be. It can’t last forever, so don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
29. And if you’re anything like me, you can’t wait to get back to your city with your friends and roommates. Thank God summer is over!!
