1. Uniform rules were there to be broken.
2. But if your school let you wear trousers, then you would probably wear them 99% of the time.
3. And the coolest girls carried their gym kit in a Jane Norman carrier bag.
4. Anyone who was anyone cut holes in their jumper sleeves.
5. You wished for chunky school shoes, but your mum bought you sensible school shoes.
6. Pulling up your tights in the hallway was totally accepted.
7. Your main place to meet boys was probably the bus stop.
8. But you mainly talked to them on MSN rather than real life.
9. And you'd copy and paste all the scandalous bits to all your best friends.
10. It was totally normal to get the bus together to school, spend all day together, go home together, and then talk on MSN to each other all night.
11. Apart from gossiping about each other, you talked about who you hated on Big Brother and who you fancied on Skins.
12. Talking about periods didn't phase you, and it was common for someone to ask a whole classroom for a tampon.
13. Without boys you were the ones making the fart jokes.
14. Your changing rooms were probably cold and slightly damp, so you'd change into your gym kit in your classroom.
15. There was bitching and gossip, but not half as much as there was in American high school movies.
16. There was a lot of crying in the toilets.
17. If you were lucky there might have been some juicy lesbian gossip in your year.
18. Your school was kind of feminist, but not exactly forward thinking.
19. After school you had to run to the tuck shop to avoid the queues.
20. There was definitely one girl who completely changed everything about herself after she left school.
21. And you only know this through detailed Facebook stalking.
