Celebrating High School Graduation

[DBdude]

Also, at the cc dinner there were about 100 guests and apparently there was drama I was unaware of regarding seating arrangements. Some family members felt their status warranted a table with the graduate's parents, and not with the charming bf from WY. Again, its a goddamn dinner party for a HS graduation and some panties were twisted over not being at the head table.

did you offer them a hit off your vape? if not, that was the issue

[The AD]

Holy Shit! Did you just really say that?

You must be new here...

[jackstraw]

I should be more thankful, and I'm not complaining about the trip - although is was so unbearably fkn hot in SA my balls were literally sticking to the legs of homeless people we passed along the river walk - showing up to receive your HS diploma shouldn't be celebrated like you won the Noble Prize. You did your job. Hand the ball to the ref and get ready for the next play.

vibes

As awesome as it is to skip all the tsa lines, the waiting, and the commercial traffic lanes, private is an embarrassing display of excess on so many levels. How many carbon offsets are needed?

[reckless toboggan]

- showing up to receive your HS diploma shouldn't be celebrated like you won the Noble Prize. You did your job. Hand the ball to the ref and get ready for the next play.

This.

[Woodsy]

vibes

As awesome as it is to skip all the tsa lines, the waiting, and the commercial traffic lanes, private is an embarrassing display of excess on so many levels. How many carbon offsets are needed?

its choice, if yo u get the opportunity, I would highly recommend it

Cant remember who posted it recently but I will add I am down with OPJ, just like OPP, OPB & OPM.

[dan_pdx]

About 10 years ago, I was in downtown Portland, a limo cruised by, and a little kid put his head out the window and yelled "I graduated from 6th grade!" Yeah, a limo ride for "graduating" from elementary school.

I shook my head and thought about how poorly that kid was being served by his parents, about how his expectations were going to be inflated to the point that nothing in his adult life would ever measure up, how our society sometimes seems to expect so little from its children, and how his limo ride represented so many of our social ills in a nutshell.

And you know, I wished I could share those thoughts with him. But he was driving by and there was no time, so I had to go with shorthand: I smiled at him and flipped him off. He looked crushed, so maybe my message got through.

[XXX-er]

well come on, this was Portlandia FFS

[The AD]

And you know, I wished I could share those thoughts with him. But he was driving by and there was no time, so I had to go with shorthand: I smiled at him and flipped him off. He looked crushed, so maybe my message got through.

I feel like either what you did or yelling "well whoop-dee shit!" would both be acceptable responses.

[BmillsSkier]

About 10 years ago, I was in downtown Portland, a limo cruised by, and a little kid put his head out the window and yelled "I graduated from 6th grade!" Yeah, a limo ride for "graduating" from elementary school.

I shook my head and thought about how poorly that kid was being served by his parents, about how his expectations were going to be inflated to the point that nothing in his adult life would ever measure up, how our society sometimes seems to expect so little from its children, and how his limo ride represented so many of our social ills in a nutshell.

And you know, I wished I could share those thoughts with him. But he was driving by and there was no time, so I had to go with shorthand: I smiled at him and flipped him off. He looked crushed, so maybe my message got through.

[Benny Profane]

vibes

As awesome as it is to skip all the tsa lines, the waiting, and the commercial traffic lanes, private is an embarrassing display of excess on so many levels. How many carbon offsets are needed?

Hardly as much as a day at Vail, if you think about it.

[jackstraw]

its choice, if yo u get the opportunity, I would highly recommend it

I have. I was awesome and gross all at the same time.

Hardly as much as a day at Vail, if you think about it.

Hmm, I don't think so, but I've never skied Vail.

[Woodsy]

I have. I was awesome and gross all at the same time.

I hear you
I did it into Augusta for a Sunday at the Masters with clients on my company owners jet and it was like a mall parking lot on December 23rd. Literally jets parked as far as you could see and carts grabbing people.
ridiculously gross and awesome ( in the true sense of the word) at the same time

[Parvo]

If I had the coin I’d never fly commercial again. Don’t really care about environmental impact but did feel slight tinge of guilt over just two of us in a citation latitude that seats eight. Prolly could have given a seat to someone deserving - like an unwed teen mom on a make-a-wish trip.

[Benny Profane]

If I had the coin I’d never fly commercial again.

I always say that, if I was rich, never again.

[SumJongGuy]

It's all about the build up... Daycare graduation ceremony.. Pre school graduation ceremony... 5th grade elementary school graduation ceremony... Middle school graduation ceremony.. High school graduation ceremony.. Trust fund FTW.. Pay 500K to get them in to college.. No telling how much they're paying their interns to do the kids college work. Saw it happen at a place I worked a few years ago.. Company owner/director had the content specialists and editors writing her kids' college and then MBA school papers and project PPTs..

[XXX-er]

I just kind of assumed they were gona make it out of grade school, I don't remember going to any kind of grad, but i showed up at the HS & uni grad for the youngest

I really don't remember if the oldest even went to his HS grad cuz he was sucking a lot at that time even tho he was probably smarter than his younger brother the book worm who got the scholarships and bursaries, kids eh

[m2711c]

my kindergartener graduated today, so proud.

did ya give her a rent due notice?

[old goat]

its choice, if yo u get the opportunity, I would highly recommend it

Cant remember who posted it recently but I will add I am down with OPJ, just like OPP, OPB & OPM.

I got to fly a chartered private from Reno to Sacramento. I can't say it was a whole lot of fun, since I was bundled up, strapped in with an IV in my arm and a couple of RN's watching my vitals, and the service sucked, since when they went to give my some morphine about half way through the IV was plugged up. I didn't tip.

[Harry]

just two of us in a citation latitude that seats eight.

Wait just a minute. You were alone with this chick on a private jet at 30,000 feet for several hours AND THERE ARE NO POOPENHOUSEN PICS ?????

Complete FAIL.

[snoqpass]

She earned a booster's full ride athletic scholarship to attend a well-known tx university that some would liken to a cult. So I get how acknowledging that achievement is worth a little extra cheddar in the check, but three days of lavish celebration for a HS diploma seems excessive to me.

Getting out of HS without getting shot seems to be a milestone these days

[XXX-er]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/fortif...ings-1.5174149

a CBC artical ^^ on fortifying schools in the USA

[Buster Highmen]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/fortif...ings-1.5174149

a CBC artical ^^ on fortifying schools in the USA

hmmmm.

[XXX-er]

Bullet proof shelters could become the new norm in America

https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/mu...any-where.html

did you look at the link in CBC articla with school shooting stats how many and where ?

mostly in the SE USA

[dan_pdx]

I feel like either what you did or yelling "well whoop-dee shit!" would both be acceptable responses.

Damn, well put. I'm going to keep that in mind for next time.