blast from the past.

Today for lunch, I had Spaghettio's. I know you're probably wondering why in the world I am deciding to blog about what I ate today, but it reminded me a great story from middle school that I thought would be great to share!

When i was in middle school, I went to a really small, private christian school. By small, I mean I was the only person in my 8th grade class. Yeah, tiny I guess would be a better word. lol.

My 6th grade year, however, we really had a good attendance. I think there were 7 or so in my class and there wasn't anyone who was alone.

 That year, we had some students transfer from different school and such, and two of those people came from Augusta Christian. It was a brother and sister, Romona and Luke. Luke was in elementry school, like 3rd or 4th grade I think, and Romona was a couple of years older than me in the 9th grade.

Now, I'll set the stage a little more for you and let you in on the fact that Romona and Luke were Jackson Massey's (massey, massey, massey) grandchildren. [those of you from augusta/thomson will understand. those of you who aren't. he's a lawyer.]  They were the "rich kids" and Romona played that card very well. Actually I think she used it to her advantage mostly. She made up lies daily, and I think she did it just to see what we would believe since she was so popular   Jackson Massey's granddaughter.

Her worst lie, she came up with a break one day. We were all sitting around the table, throwing fruit snacks up on the duct work, and someone said something about walmart. Romona looked as serious as she could and asked "What exactly is walmart like? My grandma won't let me shop there."  We're all sitting there looking at her like she just jumped off the stupid wagon. Seriously, honey? We all know you live in Thomson, and unless you're going to Bi-lo, where the heck else are you going to get your groceries from? So most of us kept her going her for a minute, some gave her the "oh, my gosh" response she was looking for, and others, such as myself, kept staring at her. ha! Well it wasn't but about three weeks later, I was in walmart with my mom and Alicia and who did we run into? You guessed it, Romona. Not only Romona though. Also her GRANDMA, who "wouldn't let her shop in walmart." She tried hiding, but of course it didn't work, because my mom was Luke's teacher, and her grandma came right over to speak! it was hilarious!!! 

Then, at Christmas time, she gave all the girls some of those little bath things they have....at WALMART. haha. EVERYONE made a comment about it to her. It was priceless! :) 

That's not even the best part, or the reason I'm writing this long drawn out blog. ha!  We had a place called "the happy corner" that we bought snacks, drinks, and lunch from. The lunches were usually hot dogs, corn dogs, grilled cheese, grilled ham and cheese, and occationally something special like hamburgers. Most of us usually bought lunch, or sometimes we'd bring something from home. Well one day, I brought a can of Spaghettio's for lunch instead of buying something. Well Romona bought a grilled ham and cheese, that day then once it was lunch time, she saw my spaghettio's, and wanted those. Spaghettio's are about .50 cent a can or something crazy like that, so i figured she'd just pay for the sandwhich and i'd give her the spaghettio's. that was the case, BUT she aslo gave me $5, FIVE DOLLARS, too. I was like really? She said "please, i'll give you $5. I really want those spaghettio's!" so we traded of course, but i thought it was insane that she gave me $5 for something she could have gone to WALMART and gotten then for less and a dollar. Silly me, to think her grandma would have let her buy something from Walmart. *gasp* 

Her grandma and Mr. Massey are awfully nice. We had grandparents day, that year and had a special lunch that we invited our grandparents to.  Well my Granny and I sat right across from Romona and Mr. Massey. My Granny acted like she had just met Dick Van Dyke and not Jackson Massey. It was hilarious. She talked to him the ENTIRE time, and Romona and I ended up talking to each other instead of our grandparents! ha!!    

I really did have some great times my 4 years out there at good ole SBCA [southern bible christian academy]. I was glad to have moved to THS my freshman year though!

hope you enjoyed this little blast from the past as much as i did, when i remembered it this morning eating my spaghettio's. haha. :)