35 Things Literally Everyone Thought Were Completely Normal When They Were In High School That Seem Wild In 2022

    Truly wild when you think about it.

    In high school, nothing was more normal than...

    1. Running a mile and IMMEDIATELY taking your musty self to math class:

    high school really had me sweating balls in gym then sent me straight to history or math wtf

    Twitter: @CodeineFridge

    2. Walking into lunch like you owned the joint:

    mfs in high school was sneakin into different Iunch periods like it was the club

    Twitter: @IcyJaime

    3. Begging for permission for a bodily function:

    it’s so crazy that we would ask for permission to use the toilet from our teachers in high school and they would say no. like we were just kids

    Twitter: @martinsstanleyy

    4. The wild start time:

    I can’t believe school used to start before 9am and I actually WENT

    Twitter: @sultyyyy

    5. Watching some incredibly depressing movie and then immediately going to play badminton or something:

    They really had us all in the auditorium watching Schindler's List at 8 am in high school then were like enjoy the rest of the day

    Twitter: @JFrankensteiner

    6. That one kid who always wore shorts, no matter the weather:

    no matter how cold it gets there's always going to be that one kid wearing shorts.

    Twitter: @pixiteen

    7. Theater kids being OUT OF CONTROL first thing in the morning:

    I’m sick of coffee I want whatever theater kids consumed that made them act like that at 8am

    Twitter: @lukasbattle

    8. Eating hamburgers and milk at 11:30 a.m....

    Highschool really had us drinking milk with hamburgers at 11:30am

    Twitter: @Slimo_HD

    9. Drinking milk with pizza and corn at 10:55 a.m...

    High school really had us eating pizza and corn with milk at 10:55AM...

    Twitter: @hwatson_2

    10. Eating calzones at the crack of dawn...

    My high-school really had us eating calzones for lunch at 1030 in the morning

    Twitter: @aphished

    11. Eating spicy fried chicken with milk...

    They really had us drinking chocolate milk with a chicken sandwich in high school what the fuck was that about

    Twitter: @ryewontdie

    12. And drinking milk with enchiladas:

    High School really had us drinking milk with enchiladas at 11:15 A.M

    Twitter: @Sensei1van

    13. The weird competition to say how sleep-deprived you were:

    why did ppl brag abt getting 2 hours of sleep per night in high school. like bitch ur 16 and ur dying that isn’t a flex

    Twitter: @ayeshachair

    14. D.A.R.E. telling you everyone would be rolling at the Sweet 16s you were going to:

    The DARE program really had us believing there were gonna be people offering us crack at high school parties

    Twitter: @sourpow99

    15. All those kids constantly making that one noise:

    a big part of 2010ish high school culture was hearing a guy go "unce unce unce unce" almost at all times. people forget but not me

    Twitter: @jmurffff

    16. Those kids who would SCREAM every single time the lights dimmed:

    Why did people scream in high schools when the lights would get turned off in the classroom😭

    Twitter: @China_Anderson

    17. Debating incredibly serious topics 20 minutes after you woke up:

    High school really had us debating the death penalty at 7:30 am

    Twitter: @MazGrace1

    18. Awful, awful football teams:

    high school football players were really like “i’m gonna win this game for you baby” and then would lose 65-7

    Twitter: @noahdonotcare

    19. Fights breaking out juuuust as the sun was rising:

    high school was a wild place... you could really get yo ass beat at 7:30 AM

    Twitter: @briantheruller

    20. Lunch speed runs:

    I just had a random thought. We really only had 20 minutes for lunch in high school. 5 minutes to go to the cafeteria, 5 minutes to wait in line to get food, 10 minutes to eat, 5 minutes to get back to class. Why did that seem like a long time?

    Twitter: @T_HUMP_Q

    21. Thirty percent of the girls in the school having a knee brace at one point:

    I wonder how the girls who wore a knee brace over their jeans in high school are doing.

    Twitter: @Chelsey_FH15

    22. Dudes just straight-up moaning all the time:

    why did high school boys moan excessively during class like pls help me what was that

    Twitter: @mmyrizzzle

    23. The very random things used as passes:

    A hall pass that's literally just a leaf

    24. Review Jeopardy getting way out of control:

    remembering how cutthroat high school jeopardy reviews were i swear i lost friends

    Twitter: @krispy_sites

    25. Straight up munchin' on cough drops like your life depended on it:

    Remember how we were so bored in high school we used to just eat cough drops

    Twitter: @keola_paredes

    26. The intense allegiance to whatever foreign language you learned:

    why did kids who picked French as their language in high school make it their entire personality

    Twitter: @16scrawford

    27. Spending weeks learning how to balance a checkbook:

    why did high school economics teach me how to balance a checkbook, something ive never had to do

    Twitter: @conbiniko

    28. Everyone wheeling around literal luggage in the hallways:

    why did kids have rolling backpacks in high school? like why are they dragging around a suitcase

    Twitter: @mbaskinn

    29. Learning how to dance in gym class:

    High school really had us doing mandatory dance units in PE because they considered that a more useful skill than doing our taxes

    Twitter: @the_tru_neutral

    30. That one girl who was way too into horses:

    Everyone had that one girl in their class who was a little too obsessed with horses. If you don't remember, it was you.

    Twitter: @shellsteen

    31. Fart seats:

    why did people in high school say the person before you farted on the seat if you sat down and the seat was warm--

    Twitter: @Chiroyoyoyoyoyo

    32. People using a titanic amount of paper towels in the bathroom and just shoving them all over:

    Why did kids in middle and high school use so many damn paper towels in the bathroom

    Twitter: @Yeller_Feller

    33. Every single book looking like this:

    nobody: Pg.16 of our high school history textbook:

    Twitter: @machinemook

    34. Having to write the fastest essay of your life:

    High school teachers really had us writing 3 page papers in a 50 minute class for WHAT?

    Twitter: @Gaherty56

    35. And all the vomit:

    Tweet reading, "Remember that phase of grade school when it was pretty common for kids to just randomly throw up in the middle of class"