Life likes to play a three to four year joke on everyone called "middle school." It’s the lowest point of every human’s time on earth, but it somehow makes for terrific stories later in life. Somehow, everyone manages to experience similar awkward moments during this dark time. Here are some of them!
- Changing in front of everyone in the gym locker rooms
- Everyone making “your mom” jokes
- Finding penises drawn into all your textbooks (which continues on for as long as you own textbooks)
- Hanging out without your parents for the first time, and feeling like a boss
- Going to Starbucks and ordering a Vanilla Frappuccino
- School dances (ex. slow dancing with sweaty people, asking someone to be your date)
- Listening to embarrassing [but super catchy] music (Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers, High School Musical [all three of them], pretty much any Disney star)
- Getting braces and rubber bands
- Getting food stuck in them
- Having a bracket pop out during lunch
- Getting chosen last in gym class
- Asking your crush out… and being brutally rejected
- Calling your teacher "mom" by accident
- Introducing yourself on the first day of school and praying that you don’t have to do an ice-breaker with the class
- Spraying AXE in the locker rooms
- Having your name called over the speaker
- Getting your first period during class
- Getting a NARB
- Looking for friends to sit with during lunch
- Using heating products every day and looking like you just dropped a toaster in your bathtub
- Diary entries where you get surprisingly dark and poetic
- Questioning whether you should go out for Halloween (the answer is always yes)
- Attending your first boy-girl party
- Literally only wearing Hollister, Abercrombie and Fitch, and/or Aeropostale
- Constantly wondering if you’re cool enough
- Getting your first pimple
- Having your first kiss
- Having your first boyfriend/girlfriend and “dating them” for 2 weeks - tops
- Passing notes to your friends about your crushes
- Owning a flip phone and being excessively excited about it
- Sending your crush a letter asking if they like you
- Emo phases
- Having an “LOL so ~*RaNdOm*~” phase (ex. yelling “CHEESE” during lunch, typing “ROFL XD”, being “derpy”, making weird noises at inappropriate times, etc.)
- Taking selfies with a digital camera or worse… A FLIP PHONE
- Overthinking every awkward moment you have, but then realizing everyone is just as awkward as you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
