I was invisible in high school. Didn't participate in sports because i was never as good as my older sis was, or my mother for that fact.( My mother made the record books and a name for herself back in her day playing basketball)
Wasn't in the choir, not the FFA, FHA,or 4H .
I did however play in the marching band, played the stinking E Flat horn and french horn. How freakin hot is that ? 
But other than that pretty much invisible unless you count all the fights I got in kicking some bully's arse for picking on someone smaller. (See, got the broken teeth to prove it  )
But anyhoo... I am a member on a site geared on getting folks back in touch with their class mates. Not surprised at the "visits" I have had hit my page but up until this weekend only had 2 classmates contact me. Most visits look at the pics of my older Sis Cheryl. (She wasn't invisible)
This weekend I got an email from a girl that graduated in '73, I graduated in '77.
She was asking how we fared during the floods here and told me that her mother's father was originally from Maquoketa IA, just a few short miles from me.
She started out by saying "You don't know me but...."
I e-mailed her back and said " Yeah, I remember you. You lived on HS Road, right across the road from the old drive-in, you dad worked at Advance Auto parts after he "retired" (he's 96 years old now BTW) and I said you dated one of the ******* boys and if not mistaken you married him"
Boy was she floored that I knew so much about her and she did't even know I existed.
So.... I have come to the conclusion that those of "us" that were always invisible to "you" ..... we spent more time, sitting back, watching "you" ignore "us".
We weren't stupid, we weren't even shy. We just watched. And learned.
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daisy315
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Jun 23 @ 12:41AM
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was it Susan?... she drove our school bus.. all 4'8" of her..lol..
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bardnsage
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Jun 23 @ 1:01AM
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I was anything but invisible in school. Hard to be invisible when you are 6'4", 220 pounds, of nothing but mouth and nerve.
I was never on the cool list, becuase I refused to join their clique and look down on other people. I thought they were 2 faced, and shallow. Besides, (showing my age), I didn't like the shirts with the little penguins on them,,,,
Made bad grades, cause I spent more time at the lake than in English class,,,,and I was forever in trouble, because I was sleeping with the lady that ran in-school detention.
I was voted "most likely to be incarcerated" at the anti-graduation party, and took great delight in being the only kid in school who could do log tables in his head to help a girl with her homework, while setting the points on a plymouth, after smoking a fat one, with Judis Preist pounding on the 8-track with the amplifier I made in class.
At my 20th reunion,,,, my face was on the board with the "Classmates who have gone on before us." crowd. Went most of the night before anyone realized the "dead" had risen.
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lazareth
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Jun 23 @ 1:10AM
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Bard, I swear, I don't know whether to laugh or cry for you. Damn, I know the feeling. Only time I was ever noticed when when I was in a fight. ( My ma always said my mouth would get me in trouble)
I didn't even make the list " Most likely to...." anything
Got shoved in a locker a few times, sat on the water fountain a few times by the football team, not that I was "noticed" just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Chit, maybe if i had been screwing some one of "importance"
I might have been noticed, but then again, sometimes being invisible ain't so bad...
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ragtopcookie
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Jun 23 @ 5:50AM
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Ive been on both sides in high school.....played sports till my sophmore year and was with the in crowd....then quit sports to work so i could get a better car than the family station wagon.....and was dropped from the so called in crowd....so i learned at an early age what that was like.....but it didnt take me long to figure out it just didnt matter.....i went to our ten year reunion to see that nothing changes with some people....even though i had the best looking wife in the place.....so i never wemt back again.....i heard at the 20th the cops were called because of all the fighting.......cookie
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buatbu
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Jun 23 @ 6:58AM
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I went to my 20th High School reunion. The people I liked were still friendly. The jerks were still jerks. I stayed for about 20 minutes after the meal.
I went to a college get together about 35 years after college. I had the time of my life - no one was trying to impress anyone but just have a good time. I don't know if I was older, we were educated, it was not an official reunion just about 50 people who all knew each other. I would like to travel the 1000 miles again to see some of the "old Farts"
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missliss78
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Jun 23 @ 10:19PM
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I was always sort of invisible, myself. 
I liked it like that.
My 30th high school reunion is coming up in September, I think.
Yeah, I made it to the 10th & like everyone else said...everyone was still the same.
Passed on the 20th & truth be told, I'll probably pass on the 30th too.
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