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Personal Narrative: After High School

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FIRST GRADE “Hey Katie,” the cute boy at lunch whispered to me while drinking his apple juice, “pass this down.” At first I gazed confused. Was he meaning me to pass down his juice box, such as in the game telephone where you pass down a secret message someone would tell you. Then I peered down. The middle finger on his hand was sticking straight up with the rest of the fingers down. Placing my Uncrustables sandwich on the table, I raised my middle finger asking, “am I doing it right?” The boy and a kid named Sam, who sat next to him, giggled. I didn’t know why they laughed, but I turned to my friend Sidney and said, “hey do this and pass it down.” As the naive young girls passed the middle finger down the table, it captured the eyes of one of the austere lunch ladies. She came over and began roaring at us and asked to tell who started it. All girls pointed at me. I immediately burst into tears. The lunch lady sternly marched my way and bellowed at me, spit hurling from the corners of her mouth, …show more content…

Tears cascading down my face like a waterfall, no idea what I had done. “I…I promise I didn’t know what I was doing. And I didn’t start it, they did! They told me to do it!” I declared in between hiccups of crying while pointing at the boy and Sam. She didn’t seem convinced, but stalked towards them. I had never seen a boy cry before, my daddy told me that real men didn’t cry, and if they did they were a wuss. But when the lunch lady screamed, “STICKING UP THAT MIDDLE FINGER MEANS YOU HATE GOD AND EVERYBODY,” not a single kid who raised the finger had dry

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