Our high school football team played their first playoff game tonight. Because of our standing (#1 in the county) the game was at home. We won!!! Of course I was there.
I ran into one of my clients at the game, and was happy to be able to modestly say, “Why yes, my daughter IS in the band.”
I’m so proud of the band! They add SO MUCH to the whole experience. I love watching them during the game, and I also like watching the cheerleaders.
My daughter couldn’t care less about football, but she likes the social aspect so she’s happy we won because it means another game next Friday. I didn’t like football either in high school- I didn’t understand the game so I never knew what was going on. And, I remember being freezing cold during our games, and desperately wanting them to be over (and livid that “three minutes’ on the clock did NOT correspond to three minutes in real life!)
It was actually NOT HOT here tonight!
My teenage self would be astonished to see adult Jenny VOLUNTARILY sitting through an entire football game, cheering happily. Life really does get better as you get older.
Did you play in your school band?
What’s something you hated in high school that you like now?
