“High school is the best time of your life” is one of those beliefs that marks a person as having a pretty sad existence. In other words, live in such a way that the highlight of your life wasn’t random cliques, school spirit and, say, SAT scores. Unfortunately, there are enough folks out there who just don’t see it this way.
Someone asked “What screams “I peaked in high school "?" and netizens shared the most petty and embarrassing examples. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to add your own thoughts and stories in the comments section below.
#21
I dated a guy with his high school mascot tattooed on his arm. It was such a turnoff.
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25points
#22
I went to school with a girl whose parents graduated from our high school 20 years prior. All 4 members of their family got the school’s logo tattooed. Her boyfriend still goes to the football games and reposts his game highlights on Instagram. We’re all 21-22.
I’m from New Mexico and live in the largest city in the state. We’ve never had a good hs football team and the bf usually goes to pick up underage girls and brags to everyone about how he was the star football player. If someone from another team makes a really good play he’ll make some kind of remark about how he could’ve done it better or he’ll go into a detail about his JV football experience.
I’m from New Mexico and live in the largest city in the state. We’ve never had a good hs football team and the bf usually goes to pick up underage girls and brags to everyone about how he was the star football player. If someone from another team makes a really good play he’ll make some kind of remark about how he could’ve done it better or he’ll go into a detail about his JV football experience.
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23points
#23
Making any mention of SAT or ACT scores. Bonus points for that IQ test you took when you were a kid online.
23points
#24
Filming yourself running drills and throwing footballs off camera in front of your van/mobile home.
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20points
#25
Going to highschool parties when you are out of highschool over a year. A year is okay as you may still have friends there but after they it's just sad.
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20points
#27
Wearing your high school ring after graduation.
16points
#28
Huge social media presence, full of interactions with people from high school that you are ‘friends’ with (but never spend any time with in person).
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13points
#29
Not letting go of old memories where you were QB on the football team, doing senior pranks, s******g on the freshmen, on and on and on and just never shutting up about it.
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13points
#30
“I was in the nhs so I know a little bit about leadership” anytime after high school.
12points
#31
This guy who graduated 2 years before us peaked in high school. When it was my year to graduate we had a teachers vs students basketball match and because the PE teacher knew they were gonna lose he invited this guy to play for them. Since he had nothing better to do and wanted to relive his glory days he came and played.
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12points
#32
Selling pot to teenagers and then trying to get them to stay and smoke with you.
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11points
#33
1) Still wearing your letterman jacket and class ring in your 30’s
2) Talking about high school sports games from a different decade as if they meant something.
3) Still living in your hometown and looking forward to that night at the bar just before thanksgiving when everyone who left comes home....so you can talk about high school stuff to people who have grown up and have real lives now.
2) Talking about high school sports games from a different decade as if they meant something.
3) Still living in your hometown and looking forward to that night at the bar just before thanksgiving when everyone who left comes home....so you can talk about high school stuff to people who have grown up and have real lives now.
11points
#34
When at an interview and asked what your biggest achievement was and responding with: well when I was high school ...
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11points
#35
As someone who recently graduated, the students who returned to the school every time they came home from school just so people would pay attention to them. Also not sure how to explain it but the people who now posts blank screens and just text on their snapchat stories that just say things like "always crazy to see who you can really trust when xyz happens" or "surprising to see who really cares about you when you need friends the most" Like I said I dont know how to explain it but there's definitely a correlation.
8points
#36
Your only friends are from high school
You tell your college grad older brother "Yes you got a math heavy degree, but in high school I took algebra 2 and you took geometry like everyone else looking for the easy path."
Says to older brother "Everyone looked down on you in high school."
Gets pissed when older brother says "You are 38, you graduated 20 years ago... Please tell me you have something to be proud of from the past 2 decades.".
You tell your college grad older brother "Yes you got a math heavy degree, but in high school I took algebra 2 and you took geometry like everyone else looking for the easy path."
Says to older brother "Everyone looked down on you in high school."
Gets pissed when older brother says "You are 38, you graduated 20 years ago... Please tell me you have something to be proud of from the past 2 decades.".
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8points
#39
Still drinking in the same pub you drank in as a student. Because that’s now full of students. So you’re that guy or girl who never left home and drinks with school kids much younger than you.
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#40
Having 3+ kids by the time you're 25.
Edit: I just got home and saw all these replies. For all you folks getting triggered and "well actually" ing me: Save it. I never said there was anything wrong with having a lot of kids at a young age. Just that it indicates you might have "peaked in high school," whatever the f**k you take that to mean. No one is judging your life choices and Reddit is not "s******g on" anyone.
Edit: I just got home and saw all these replies. For all you folks getting triggered and "well actually" ing me: Save it. I never said there was anything wrong with having a lot of kids at a young age. Just that it indicates you might have "peaked in high school," whatever the f**k you take that to mean. No one is judging your life choices and Reddit is not "s******g on" anyone.
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