Graduation Sightings

[jedimaster91]

Li'l Bro graduated high school this past week. I was extremely fortunate to make the ceremony since I had to work that day. Luckily one of my patients pulled a no-show and the other didn't take very long to finish. Woo!

Just before the presentation of the diplomas, the class president got up and practically begged the audience to be respectful of everyone's hard work and hold applause until the end of each row. Did they do so?

Haha. No.

I'm very glad "that's [your] baby" and she made it all the way through high school despite her obviously dubious genetics. I'd be embarassed by you if you were my relatives. Now if you would kindly SHUT UP before I conjure a frozen trout and smack you with it. I'd like to hear the next kid's name.

There were times the hoopin' and hollerin' got so bad that the faculty had to stop the ceremony and wait for these EWs to settle down so the audience could hear the next kid's name. Just once, I'd love to see the faculty call them out and even have them escorted out. Just once.

Thankfully, Li'l Bro is the youngest, so I won't have to deal with graduations until I have kids and they graduate.

[tropicsgoddess]

Grats with your little bro! Man, it'll be a long time till you and I have to attend another high school graduation. Shoot, I remember when I had my high school graduation, one guy's name was called out and you hear a big group of people hootin' and hollerin' then you see another group of people on the balcony beeping their airhorn and tossing to each other a freakin' beach ball. Yeah...the school didn't do jack. They're pretty lenient. My baby sis' high school on the other hand was very strict about the noise and foolishness during the ceremony (this was 3 years ago btw).

[IT Grunt]

I remember during my sister's high school graduation, she was valedictorian so she was giving a speech during the ceremony. However, some folks behind us thought it was the perfect time to discuss matters of no relevance to the ceremony, in a loud tone of voice such that none of us could hear what she was saying. My uncle turned around and said, "Will you please SHUT UP!? I'm trying to hear my niece!" They quieted down, but still grumbled like how DARE he make them be quiet during a graduation ceremony! Of all the nerve!

[Jack7957]

There was a high school here that considered not having a public graduation due to the previous couple of years audience actions.

[LillFilly]

Too bad graduations don't have bouncers!

Same thing happened at mine! I just wanted my expensive piece of paper and to go get lunch!

[elsporko]

I wen to my brother's graduation a week ago. A little tip for all the parent's out there, children under 6 don't know whats going on and have a hard time being quiet for several hours. Get a babysitter. Especially if you have to tell one that he better no pee his pants during the ceremony.

[draftermatt]

I graduated from the tech school and the high school in the same year.

The principal of the tech school had a decent way of keeping the cheering and what not to a minimum.

She told us that if our family cheered for us to loudly when we walked across the stage she'd personally walk off the stage with us and get our name, highschool info, etc and would make sure we weren't allowed to participate in our highschool's graduation ceremony (her grad was a week before the school's in the area).

[Magpie]

It's not just highschool. Heck, my highschool graduation ceremony was much better than any university convocation I've been to. Engineering is split into two ceremonies, so it's only about 2-3 hours each time. The person who brought sudoku (getting his MASc) to do was one of the better behaved graduands. My MOTHER waved as I walked in and again as I walked back to my seat. She then had the gall to complain that I was doing my best not to look in their direction.

One couple were split across two ceremonies. A mutual friend skipped most of the second one. Why? Because she was watching the ten-year-old sister of the woman who graduated in the afternoon. The woman's fiance texted my friend, who brought the little girl into one of the balconies in time to see her sister walk, and then left again before the kid could get too bored. Sensible mother to arrange for this.

[Ashaela]

We went to my cousin-in-law's high school graduation last Friday.... The group behind us brought an air horn and blared it off every five or so minutes. I was about ready to yell at them.

The stadium never got quiet... even though the speeches were short and (in my opinion) clever, there was a constant rumble of sound - everyone around was talking as if they were home in their living rooms, not even trying to whisper. I could barely hear the valedictorian speaking. Yes, the ceremony was long - 470 graduates - but they got through the whole thing in just under two hours... I could even understand if people got itchy during the reading of the names, but they didn't even give themselves a chance to get bored. The place was never once quiet. I had a book in my purse and resisted looking at it because I thought it would be disrespectful.

[IT Grunt]

We went to my cousin-in-law's high school graduation last Friday.... The group behind us brought an air horn and blared it off every five or so minutes. I was about ready to yell at them.

I HATE those things. Hurt my ears every time one fires off. I mean, really. Graduations are supposed to be solemn occasions, NOT the Super Bowl!

[KellyHabersham]

*has a sucky graduation-related sighting to share*

The high school my siblings and I attended holds their graduation ceremonies on the football field, with the friends/relatives of the graduates pouring onto the field from the stands after everything is over. Naturally, people are all about taking pictures, which makes it difficult trying to stay out of their way and try to find the graduate whom you came to see.

Anyhow, when my brother graduated, I remember that I was trying to look for him, and keep out of the way of people taking pictures, and I guess I accidentally stepped in the way of a family photo. And the only way I realized this was because the boy's father had reached over and shoved me.......almost making me stumble and fall over.

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

Every graduation I've been to has been the same way. Main reason I didn't attend my own college graduation. I had to sit through that crap, not to mention the boring speaches, the getting up early, and the crazy parking with my relatives. Not inflicting it on myself!

[ArenaBoy]

I worked enough graduations at Whiskeyclone to know that I'm not attending my college one.

[Andara Bledin]

I was in the high school band, so there was no way for me to skip my own graduation ceremony.

But I gave my mother and aunt full leave to not attend. None of us have any real interest in that stuff.

^-.-^

[Magpie]

My mom got upset because of how she ended up not at my high school graduation. I still honestly have no recollection of her saying that she wanted to go. The bus a friend and I were taking into the city got horribly delayed (most high schools here do grad in October, it's annoying as all get out, especially when it's the Thursday night before Thanksgiving, because then you have to go out and back). My friend's mom was picking him up where the bus stopped, and offered to give me a ride, so I went with them straight to the high school. Because I hadn't known that my mom wanted to go she didn't know when it was, so didn't go on her own. (Why she never worried about the fact that I hadn't given her any details, I don't know.)