What did you do durin' lunch at school?

T. Erdelyi

T. Erdelyi

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Growin' up in Central Jersey I went to Private School till my last year of High School and durin' lunch the other activities included everything from tradin' Baseball Cards to smokin' cigarettes, we also traded pocket knives.

What were some of yer lunch time activities and if ya don't mind where and when did you go to K-12.

School for me was in the 60s-70s, in Central Jersey and I loved pitchin' quarters ya could make $15-$20 on a good day:D but most days the Priests/Brothers would catch us and say"Lookie what I found her boys, a bunch of quarters some one anonymously donated to the church, unless one of you boys would like to admit ya were gamblin' on church property?".:(

Keep it clean guys I'd like to keep it in Community.
 
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Elementary school lunch time: Butt ball, dodge ball, kickball, trading wacky packages, and in 6th grade, smoking cigarettes on the slope. I had to pick up alot of playground trash for throwing food. We also made that popsicle stick mesh that you would throw like a boomerang, and watch it disengage when it hit the ground.

Highschool was getting high and playing missile command at my friends house a couple of blocks from the highschool. We also would watch MTV. That is when they actually played music videos. Then put the eyedrops in, spray binaca blast and go back to school half baked.
 
In grade school in NYC (northern Manhattan) we ate lunch and went back to class. :)
That was until 1956. We moved to the suburbs after that, junior high and high school, I ate lunch and relaxed and went back to class.

Considering the (censored) I went to high school with, going back to class was better than having anything to do with them.
 
Esav, that's right , same as in Brooklyn ! All I can remember about elementary school lunch was we brought our own .I always had peanut butter and jelly and my brother had cream cheese and jelly , along with a piece of fruit and a couple of cookies ! Booring lunch perhaps but nutritious and a 'security blanket ' !
 
In(mid 80's) highschool(when I was there:rolleyes:) after we ate,me & some friends would go outside & smoke cigarettes @ lunchtime.
There was an area where students were allowed to smoke.It was totally allowed.My how times have changed.
 
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40's and 50's for me. In grade school we ate bag lunches in the school basement, under the asbestos covered pipes. :eek:
 
Poured milk on sweet cornbread squares to make "Johnny Cake" or "Journey Cake". Put a Cheeto in a guy's milk container without his knowledge, dared him to chug it as fast as he could, and watched him gag when the Cheeto hit the back of his throat. Wild stuff like that.
 
Junior and senior year of high school, lunch was spent in the woods outback, getting snakes and other critters for the environmental science teacher. Sometimes, that dragged into our other classes. Some of the teachers didn't like us coming back with snakes, through the halls. My senior year, spending lunch at my buddys house that lived next to the school. Late 90's ;).
 
High school was early 70's, funny I can't remember much except for Doug's pool hall - I don't know if I ever saw anybody over 18 in there:).
 
I played either football or baseball every day for lunch. Tackle football was against the rules as injuries were fairly common but the coaches and vice principal generally watched and bet on the games so we never got in too much trouble.
 
Studied in the Library.
Played penny-ante poker in the Sr. Rec room.
 
We had a 'breakfast club' sort of group-really tight nit that randomly banded together-at lunch. "The Lunch Table" became a name of a group more than a description of a place. One of my friends was obsessed with random trivia and developed a great trivia game/ranking system. Every Friday the winner got a random king sized candy bar. Wow... that was one of the few genuinely awesome parts of high school.
 
My lunch-break at school:

Grade school...Ate lunch with my friends.
Jr. high school...Made out with my girlfriend.
High school...Made out with my girlfriend(s) & smoked weed.
 
Lunch time was also the place to settle disputes, at least 3 or 4 times a week there was a school yard fight.

Summer school we drank beer in the parkin' lot and checked out each other's cars.
 
Chicago public schools, 1952–1964. Grade schools had limited lunchroom space and no food service; if you walked to school (I did) you were expected to walk home for lunch. An uncle showed me how to cook canned spaghetti & meatballs: you chop a clove of garlic, fry it in olive oil, add the Chef Boyardee and stir it all around. That is not a good lunch for a little kid, but it sure tasted good!

High schools had real lunchrooms and I always ate in the lunchroom with friends, all of whom were male until I was 17. I always brought my own lunch in a brown paper bag, two sandwiches and a piece of fruit. We used to exchange lunches to make it less boring. That's how I learned to eat rice balls with nori and umeboshi. One kid used to bring bologna on white bread with heavy margarine. I would give him one of my sandwiches, and then we took the bologna slices and threw them on the ceiling. They were still on the ceiling when I graduated.

My first high school had a teachers' table in the student lunchroom with salt, pepper, sugar, and paper napkins, just like in a restaurant. One day I got into the lunchroom ten minutes before everyone else. Seeing I was alone, a ran to the teachers' table and switched the contents of the salt and sugar shakers. Then I watched a teacher put three heaping teaspoons of salt in her coffee and sugar all over her french-fried potatoes — but I got scared and ducked out through a fire door when she raised the cup to her lips.
 
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highschool i went "off campus" nearly every lunch. Unfortunately, we had a TON of kids who drove off campus, plus a cramped parking lot, plus only ONE exit. To leave you had to drive off in single file and show your pass before you could get out. So half of my lunch was spent trying to leave the parking lot every day, unless I could swindle my 4th period teacher to let me go 5 minutes early.
 
I'm only mentioning High School because everything else was boring and uneventful.

I was part of the "trenchcoat mafia" way before the school shooting happened while I was a junior. Being the outcast had certain privileges, mainly picking up girls who wanted to anger their parents by dating guys like me. First half of my junior year I always had a girl by my side. Slowly she'd (in most cases) start wearing dark lip liner and then graduate to wearing all kinds of silver pentagram jewelry that one could find at Hot Topic. We'd even have our own Satanic version of a prayer circle by the flag pole. I got kicked out for the second semester of my junior year after jumping into a fight (mini riot) when a female friend got socked by a guy. They let me back in my senior year. I lived across the street from the school, so I forged my mom's name on an off campus lunch slip. All I remember of lunch that year was cigarettes, marijuana, and cup o noodles soup.
 
Played Magic the gathering, this was 2000-2004. Undefeated 107-0. Haven't played since.
 
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