For all the band geeks like me

Subject: Re: For all the band geeks like me Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:59 am

See, we all called people names and made fun of someone in high school. To quote Romy & Michele "I think everyone made someones life miserable in high school."

Even I picked on a few people. And I was at the bottom of the totom pole.

Let us not forget about Mitchell. The sad thing was, a lot of us made fun of him to his face and he didn't realize we were doing it.

I couldn't believe Coach Hamlett got away with saying the things to him in class that he said, even though they were hiliarous.

Subject: Re: For all the band geeks like me Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:30 am

I was always waiting for that guy to snap. If he would have gone nuts and retard strong he could have done some damage. I always tried to keep my distance.
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Subject: Re: For all the band geeks like me Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:48 am

story was, he worked out at home with his dad. so i betcha he was pretty damn strong. he was far from small. i met his dad in journeys when they both came in. real nice guy. hell, i always liked Mitchell. except when he would push his way through the hall.

does anyone remember the poems he would write about the school lunches?
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Subject: Re: For all the band geeks like me Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:36 pm

I'm sorry, but that guy always freaked me out. Remember the way he'd put his head down and speed through the halls? It was like he was going to run everyone over if they got in his way!
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Subject: Re: For all the band geeks like me Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:56 pm

Yeah, he would write those limericks and give them to people. Some of them were pretty funny though. Yet, some were creepy.

When he came to my class reunion last fall, he looked EXACTLY the same.

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Subject: Re: For all the band geeks like me Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:22 pm

Mitchell lived a few dorm rooms away from my hubby in college. He would stand in his tighty whities and recite lemricks or play trumpet out on the deck all the time. The guy did have a sense of humor about him. You've got to be somewhat confident to do that.

Stevie trying to get him drunk so that eveyone could get a laugh at his expense proves that not everyone matures in 10n yrs. Yes...that includdes all of you who thought it was a great idea.

Subject: Re: For all the band geeks like me Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:38 am

I'm not saying it was a great idea to purposefully make fun of him. Call me immature if you want, but I still find the thought of Mitchell drunk quite funny.

Subject: Re: For all the band geeks like me Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:24 pm

I concur, A drunk Michell would would be like watching someone play pinball. Him bouncing of the walls and knocking over people would be very entertaining.

I never read anywhere that I supposed to mature by now. I thought that didn't have to happen until 50. I still laugh when someone farts, or trips, or projectile vomits at a distance greater than 2 feet. I don't want to grow up cause if I did I wouldn't be a toys r us kid.
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Subject: Re: For all the band geeks like me Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:51 pm

Class of 1998 Joined : 08 Apr 2008 Posts : 81

I am young at heart and will always be. I decided this at a very young age.

Class of 1998 Joined : 08 Apr 2008 Posts : 81

If Mitchell really wanted to, he could have beaten up most of the guys in high school. He did weight train daily. He had some serious issues that kept him from fighting back. I have a soft spot for all people, no matter how strange they can be at times.

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I should add to this that when his mother died he was a freshman. Mr. Senn let us know, and he let Mitchell participate that year in marching band class. He didn't want to march (which he said was due to serious allergies), so he played, and he was playing trumpet (my section), so we just tried to be nice.

Yes, he did behave strangely sometimes, and he had his idiosyncrasies. I think he seemed to use limericks as ways to get through life. I guess we all need our "recliner chairs" that are soft to get us through life.

Subject: Re: For all the band geeks like me Tue May 20, 2008 10:07 am

I agree that Mitch was weird, but so was I. His locker was next to mine. Something I greatly lamented. I wish I had had a little more patience with him. He used to lose his music and I would act like I was going to refuse to give him another copy, telling him it was a "library rule" that every band member could only be issued one copy of music (I was the band Librarian for 2 years) and then would "break down" and act like I was doing him a huge favor by giving him another copy.

I have to say that any one of us could have been him so maybe we should consider that before making fun of him, even now. However the recollection of him sitting in the band room with wads of toilet paper streaming from his ears because we were "too loud" during study hall days still makes me cringe.