Welcome To Earth David

I just realized that yesterday marked the 19th anniversary of my high school graduation. On June 2nd, 1989 I graduated from Beulah High School in Valley, Alabama. I was 18 years old that day. I remember the only person in my family who attended the graduation ceremony was my mother. My dad who at the the time had not yet adopted me, as sorry as he was for it, decided he would rather go hunting that night more than he would like to watch me receive my high school diploma. My two younger brothers weren’t at the ceremony either, but they were very young at the time still and I think they were with my grandmother or one of my aunts… I really can’t remember where they were exactly. We had the graduation ceremony on the football field and I remember the whole thing seemed to take forever. The speeches from the principle, the vice principle, the head coach, teachers, the band playing their songs, the hot June night air… I am so glad I don’t ever have to relive that day. All of the other guys and girls in my graduating class went to a graduation party after the ceremony. I was not invited. My mother took me out for dinner at a restaurant called Western Sizzlin’ which is still open almost 20 years later. After dinner my mother and I went home. Needless to say, if you couldn’t tell, I was not one of the popular kids in my school during my younger years. I would have loved to go to that party with everyone that night and as far as my dad not going to the ceremony…. well that wasn’t the only thing he missed out on because of his stupidity.

In the last 19 years I have only seen but just a few people I graduated high school with. In fact the last time I saw one of them, a girl named Crystal, was just a few weeks ago down at Theresa’s Cut-N-Corner where I get my hair cut. Her son was getting a hair cut, and she sat there the whole time and didn’t say one word to me. I don’t know if maybe she just didn’t recognize me or most likely she is still just as stuck up now as she was in high school. Oh well.