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March 07, 2009 |
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OK!
FOUND by Chelsea
in Grove City, OH
I walked into my English class the other day and found a notebook full of notes. This was the front page. The size of the OK is a sign of major enthusiasm.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
The hilltop Y down the street must be the favorite party spot.
(I am curious about what Chelsea wrote: are you the English teacher in this class? What is up with a 'notebook full of notes?')
It was all going to work out perfectly until their moms called each other....
OK ~ This is puzzling to me. What does lock out mean? Will they have to sleep at the Y? Our Y only has a pool, a climbing wall, handball & BB courts, workout rooms, & a ball diamond. Not a place to crash for the night.
I understand sneaking out in the middle of the night when sleeping over at a friend's house. I'm guessing the Y is a place where two streets branch off, at the top of a hill. Sounds like a cool place to go on a full moon night. But what does "lockout" mean?
LOCKOUT!!
Rapper: We're going to the Hilltop.
Rapping Choir: Y?
Rapper: Cuz it's down the street.
Rapping Choir:OK!!!
We're going to the Hilltop.
Y?
Cuz it's down the street.
OK!!!
We're going to the Hilltop.
Y?
Cuz it's down the street.
OK!!!
We're going to the Hilltop.
Y?
Cuz it's down the street.
OK!!!
<<Repeat over and over in your mind as your going through the aisles at the super market>>>
Am I the only one to form a filthy thought with hilltop=mons and the dirty Y?
Lockout is a common term on colleges for dorms and sororities/frats that lock their doors at a certain time. ie: 10:00 pm. is lockout time, so ya better have your key.
Kind of catchy, Hiplainsdrifter.
I, too, am curious about this "notebook full of notes."
@ Brain Problem: I've heard of "eating at the Y," but ours doesn't have a cafeteria.
Many schools have "lockouts." These are supposed to prepare the kids for what would happen if the parents were locked out of the school. Really it's just a big sleepover—the students stay overnight at the school. These two may have decided to ditch the lockout and sneak out, cuz it's too lame to sit around with your classmates.
Lisha and Nellie had been assigned to sleep next to Agnes at the school lockout. Agnes was the most annoying girl in the school. Lisha and Nellie, devising solutions to this pressing problem, decided to ditch the lockout and stay at Lisha's house. "If I stay at your house @ lockout then we are going to the hilltop Y down the street," Nellie wrote in their notebook while they were passing notes in English class. "OK," Lisha wrote in big letters with her Sharpie. That night they stayed at Lisha's house and went to the YMCA, which was on the hill, but lo and behold—you won't guess who was there... AGNES! Turns out she ditched lockout, too.
I remember lockouts at my old dance studio! They were so lame! You always thought it would be so much fun but really there is so much supervision that all the fun stuff you normally did was axed and you were stuck playing board games and watching movies and longing for liquor. It was much cooler to pretend to go to lockout but really go to a cooler, older kids party and get wasted..ahh... memories
Actually, it doesn't say OK. You're looking at it sideways. It's a decapitated stick figure. Lisha can't stand Nellie either, as she is the second most annoying girl in school, and drew that picture to show Nellie what would happen if she came over to her house.
Some Ys actually do rent rooms. That was one of the first purposes of the YM-YWCA, back in the days before political correctness set in. They were "christian associations" and provided safe, controlled environments for people to stay in. There were rules about curfew, visitors, no smoking etc.
@ Baby Basil: Sounds kind of like a "lock-out."
When I first started puzzling on this find at 6:30 this morning, I thought the note might involve the plans of a couple of Hispanic kids, and the writer used "Y" instead of "and" by mistake. You know? "We are going to the hilltop AND down the street." The "Y" just popped out at me like that.
@baby basil.. and one of the main points was to separate the sexes. So at the YMCA only men could stay there. So another group started a YWCA for women. They were created in the mid-1800s to provide protected living quarters for youth who came to the dangerous and squalid cities to work during the Industrial Revolution.
Yup, lawndude, I was thinking the same...
This is how babies are made. Or again maybe it was the YMCA and this is how fitness is made.
When I was in high school, a few of my good friends and I had notebooks that were designated only for writing notes back and forth to each other. As in, I would have it and write a note to Michele in the morning, give it to her at lunchtime, then she'd read it and write me back in the afternoon. This was how we had to avoid learning in the days before cell phones and whatnot.
A notebook full of notes, found in an English class. Sounds like a journal writing assignment to me.
When I taught 4th graders, I required journal keeping. Even if it were only a few sentences or just random stream-of-consciousness ramblings. The journals were strictly private. I would only glance through them to make sure entries were being made. Content was not as important as developing the daily habit of writing.
Most students didn't take it seriously, but one little boy would write pages. I was so intrigued, I asked permission to read a little of it. It was way above grade-level work --- fascinating descriptions of family & friends and events in his life.
I later learned he became a stoner in high school. I still hold out hope that he'll keep writing & maybe become the next Hunter S. Thompson.
@purslane: You could've been the inventor of MySpace but I saw what you guys were doing and I ran with it.
Wait! I thought a "lockout" was a little charm on a necklace that people might keep a sweetheart's picture in and then .... What? .... Oh, never mind!
HEY EVERYONE! I'm from Ohio, I know exactly what they're talking about. Hilltop is a town. It's the Hilltop YMCA. Though the neighborgood's been getting pretty rough. I used to go there as a kid and when I came back it was rather frightening..
Just to give you all a better picture. ;)
Hilltop is a Ghetto ass area of Columbus, and the Y is the YMCA... lockouts are sleep overs that girl scouts troops and schools do them. They stay the night wherever, watch movies, eat pizza, etc.